MS. Bodl. 737
Summary Catalogue no.: 2729
Contents
At fol. 227v, follow short notes by the same author on three canticles
Differs from the printed editions.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols
Binding
White leather on boards, with tabs, clasps etc. lost, worn (English late 13th century work?)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi . . . B.232.' (see M. R. James On the Abbey of S. Edmund [1904], p. 16, no. 150)
'Hic liber est Sancti Eadmundi' altered from 'de Sancto Edmundo' (late 13th century)
For details of the medieval catalogue, see B13.226 in Benedictines: The Shorter Catalogues: Bury: Catalogue, late 12th cent., and additions
Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 66, of the gift of William Smart of Ipswich (no. 150 in the list in James's Ecloga; M. R. James On the Abbey of S. Edmund (1904), p. 50, no. 66) (MLGB3)
It appears to have been first referenced in the Bodleian c. 1613
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-04-14: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)