MS. Bodl. 749

Summary Catalogue no.: 2771

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good penwork initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 672)

History

Origin: before c. 1390 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol. 291 is a Latin note that fifteen persons (among them Henry Brum, John Port, Will. Attevill) deposited this book with three others 'in antiqua cista' no doubt at Oxford, on Oct. 31, 1390 (?).

On fol. 6v is 'Precium istius libri xlvj. s. viijd.', about the same time.

Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: 'Liber ex dono Magistri Roberti Ryggh Cancellarii et Canonici huius ecclesie ad cathenandum imperpetuum in libraria communi eiusdem ecclesie' (fol. i v) (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.