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MS. Douce 322

Summary Catalogue no.: 21896

Religious poems

Language(s): Middle English

Religious treatises

Language(s): Middle English

Richard Rolle, Paruum Iob

Language(s): Middle English

Richard Rolle, Emendatio uitae

Language(s): Middle English

Henricus Suso, Horologium sapientiae (English translation)

Language(s): Middle English

Theological treatises (some attributed to 'Adam the Carthusian' )

Language(s): Middle English

Poor Caitiff (extract)

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1097, pl. CIII:

Good miniature.

Good border.

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

Binding

Purple velvet.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Dartford, Kent, Priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Margaret, of Dominican nuns: "These booke ... ys of the gifte of Wylliam Baron esquyer to remayne for euyr to the place and nonrye of Detforde and specially to the use of dame Pernelle Wrattisley Sister of the same place by licence of her abbas ...". (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

"From Ebenezer Mussel's Library" (note by Francis Douce). Ebenezer Mussel sale May 30 to June 1 1766, lot 276. (MLGB3)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834