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MS. Douce 138

Summary Catalogue no.: 21712

Contents

Ranulph Higden, Polychronicon,

to 1343

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 283 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10 × 7.125 in.

Decoration

Penwork.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Robert Sherborn, bishop of St David and Chichester (d. 1536): at end:--'In hunc locum ego Ro. Shirborñ integre legi apud Portesmundam anno Domini 1494 ... qum etiam turri guerrarum illic edificate operam darem iussu illustrissimi principis predicti.'

Henrietta Louisa countess Pomfret (d. 1761); initials H.L. on the binding beneath a coronet are presumably hers (Douce Legacy, no. 228).

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 534

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent and leaf dimensions from Summary Catalogue.