MS. Auct. D. 1. 15
Summary Catalogue no.: 2239
Job, Catholic Epistles, and Apocalypse, with gloss; England, 13th century, second half
Contents
Language(s): Latin
James, fol. 95; Peter, fols. 104v, 113v; John, fols. 120, 129, 130; Jude, fol. 131
On fols. 92-4 and elsewhere is much writing with a metal stilus.
Physical Description
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Binding
Red velvet with brass clasps and corner-pieces, bosses lost. 16th cent. English work.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At head of fol. 2 in plummet, 'Henricus rector ecclesie sancti Andree de costel' (?) London' [St Andrew by the Wardrobe?] emit totum librorum et percamene de adamo venditore aput sanctum paulum' (s. xiii). (MLGB3)
'Liber m(agistri) archidiaconi Buck(inghamie)(?)' 14th cent., fol. 166v, foot
Evesham, Worcestershire, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Egwin: 'Liber monasterij Eveshamie': 15th/16th cent. (fols. 1, 165). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution)
Owned by King Henry VIII, see MS. Bodl. 218 (SC 2054), and with a list of contents (fol. i) perhaps in Leland's hand.
Presented by Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, in 1604.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-08: Matthew Holford: encode full description from Summary Catalogue.