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MS. Bodl. 724

Summary Catalogue no.: 2652

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 205, pl. XXI)

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Battle, Sussex, Benedictine abbey of St Martin (?) : Pressmark like others from Battle. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

'Liber Guilielmi Deuenyshe', (top of fol. 1r, s/. xvi); he was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, d. 1558.

Presented by Charles Howard earl of Nottingham in 1604.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 471
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 472

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 228

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.