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MS. Douce 262

Summary Catalogue no.: 21836

Contents

1.
The cloud of unknowyng

With glosses in Latin and English

Language(s): Middle English and Latin
4.
Religious treatises
Language(s): Middle English and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 162 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 7.625 × 5.5 in.

Decoration

Penwork.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half (?) - 16th century, 1st quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

London, Charterhouse of the Salutation of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber domus Salutacionis Matris Dei prope Londinum ordinis Carthusie." (fol. 1r), s. xvi in. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

James Farewell (s. xvi). Edward Jacob, 1770. (MLGB3)

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. 571
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 572

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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