MS. Bodl. 853
Summary Catalogue no.: 2612
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Here without author's name: there is a general prologue, and lists of chapters before each book, and some notes.
Ends in a chapter on the order of deacons.
On fol. 271v is a form of letter from 'Tomas Wynchon [?]' to 'brother Day', complaining that the latter has not written to him, 16th cent.
There are notes written with a metal stilus on fols. ii-iii.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols
Decoration
Penwork
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin (?): According to Langbaine, this manuscript belonged to Reading (MLGB3)
William Burdet of Sonning? (MLGB3)
Former Bodleian mark 'Med. 13' (MLGB3)
"From no. 8620, pp. 176 et sqq., this manuscript belonged to Reading abbey, and so no doubt was presented by Wm Burdet of Sonning in 1608. However, it is possible that this manuscript and MS. Bodl. 695 ought to change places, since Thomas Barlow gives 'L. 3. 8' Th. as the old pressmark of MS. Bodl. 695, but Barlow's list of old pressmarks is not certainly correct" (Summary Catalogue)
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-04-14: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)