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MS. Douce 287

Summary Catalogue no.: 21861

Contents

1.
William FitzStephen, Vita S. Thomae Cantuariensis (including the Description of London; begins imperfect)
Language(s): Latin
23.
John of Salisbury, Vita S. Thomae Becket
Language(s): Latin
3.
Constitutions of Clarendon
Language(s): Latin
4.
Letters,

mostly by or addressed to Thomas Becket and Gilbert Foliot

Language(s): Latin
5.
Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (extracts)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 108 + ii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): c. 188 × 130 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 36-7 lines, column space c. 140–145 × 50–5 mm.

History

Origin: after 1176 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Lessness Or Westwood, Kent, Augustinian abbey of St Thomas the Martyr: 'Hic est liber ecclesie beati Thome martiris de Lesnes. Quem qui ei abstulerit aut illi super eo fraudem fecerit nisi eidem ecclesie satisfecerit plene anathema sit maranatha'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Edoardo Luidio donavit d. David Wyn rector ecclesie Lh. Vihangel Lhyn Myvyr (sc. Llanfihangel Glyn-y-Myvyr) Anno 1699.' (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. 580

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.