MS. Ashmole 1525
Summary Catalogue no.: 8229
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Fine miniatures (calendar pictures).
Borders.
Historiated initials.
Other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 355, pl. XXX) Fine borders, historiated and other initials added to a Psalter of 13th century, first quarter. From fol. 140v script also 14th century. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 551, pl. LV)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church (?) : Has obits of "Thomas Golstone Prior" (i. e. of Canterbury) and of "Dominus Gervasius de Crambrok" (s. xv). (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
Wormald treats it as a St Augustine's Canterbury calendar, see Engl. Ben. Kalendars after A. D. 1100, HBS 1 (1938) 47. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (68 images from 35mm slides)
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.