MS. Bodl. Rolls 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 27814

Survey of the property of Glastonbury abbey in the form of a certificate from Richard Pollard and Thomas Moyle

An original survey of all the possessions, spiritual and temporal, of the Benedictine abbey of St Mary at Glastonbury after its dissolution in September 1539

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: roll

Support: parchment

Extent: Made up of thirteen membranes

Dimensions (roll): 325.75 × 8.25 in.

Hand(s)

Written in an elaborate secretary script

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1185, Pls CX-CXI

Fine historiated and interlace initials

Pen drawings

Binding

Kept in a blue cloth case, 20.125" x 3.25" x 3.25"

History

Origin: c. 1539 ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Has the royal arms, pictures of Veritas, 'Solymon Turscher' (the Grand Turk), &c.

Presented by Charles Gray, MP for Colchester, on 2 March 1750/1751, together with a Phoenician inscription on stone from Citium

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1905). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 5, p. 361

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Surrogates

Black-and-white detail of part of the roll in The Bodleian Library and its treasures ... [Exh. Cat.] [September 17 - October 14, 1990 (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (1990), no. 41

Bibliography

Editions:

Printed in full in Thomas Hearne's edition of Langtoft's Chronicle (Oxford, 1735), II, p. 343, based on this manuscript. Hearne's transription can be found in MS. Somerset Rolls 10

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-03-31: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905)

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