MS. Bodl. 794
Summary Catalogue no.: 2642
Physical Description
Composite: three parts
Musical Notation:
Neums (see van Dijk 1957).
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
MS. Bodl. 794 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Bodl. 794 – Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Bodl. 794 – Part 3
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Provenance
'Iste liber emptus anno domini Mmo CCCCmo LXo 2o et constat magistro Thome Langlay vicario de Norbourne', i.e. Northbourne (Kent) (fol. 205r; signed also on fols. 1r, 138r) (MLGB3).
Maidstone, Kent, collegiate church of All Saints: 'Liber Collegii de Maidstone'' (fol. 205r), by the same hand that wrote the inscription for Maidstone in Cotton Claudius A.xi, and which may be put around the time of the book's receipt from the estate of the college's late master, William Grocyn (d. 1519); catalogue, SC273.10 (MLGB3).
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922).
Bibliography
Online resources:
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. 231
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add provenance information from MLGB3.