MS. Auct. D. 1. 8
Summary Catalogue no.: 2761
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Physical Description
Decoration
Fine initials. Canon tables. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 366)
Binding
Plain white sheepskin on boards, English 15th (?) cent. work.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Northampton, Northamptonshire, Cluniac priory of St Andrew: "Iste liber constat domo sancti Andree de Northamton" (flyleaf formerly front pastedown, fol. i recto), s. xiv ex. ".E. z." (top of fol. 1r), s. xv–xvi. "liber sancti andree norh't." (top of fol. 1r), large bookhand, ? s. xiii. "Iohannes vnum ex .iiij. or " (top flyleaf fol. ii verso), s. xiv. The hand in which this title is written appears to be that of the title in Oriel 53, fol. 1r. (Medieval binding.) (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Presented by Sir Walter Cope 1602. (MLGB3)
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.