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MS. Douce 302

Summary Catalogue no.: 21876

John Audelay, Poems

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 36 leaves, in double columns

Dimensions (binding): 10.875 × 7.875 in.

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Launde, Leicestershire, Augustinian priory of St John the Baptist: On fol. 35r, erased: "The owner of thys boke who ...". (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

Rich. Farmer. (MLGB3)

First 3 quires missing. A second erased inscr. on fol. 35r records ownership by William Vyott 'a mynstrall yn Coventr''. The last 14 lines of verse on fol. 35r: 'No man þis book he take away ... cuius anime propicietur deus', are added in a hand diff. from that of the text. (MLGB3)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834