MS. Auct. D. 4. 18
Summary Catalogue no.: 2094
Physical Description
Binding
Red leather on older boards, early 16th cent. Reading (?) work.
Accompanying Material
'Straps in binding from same late King's Bench writ (?) as in Bodley 397' (MLGB).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading Abbey: part 1 identifiable in the catalogue of 1192. 'Contains contents list of Bodley 528 with Reading inscription: 'Hunc librum dedit frater Nicholas de Pichecote deo et beate Marie et con⟨ventui⟩ de Rading' ⟨Qu⟩em qui alienaverit, anathema sit' (fol. i recto flyleaf, reversed, s. xiii). No indication when flyleaf was bound with this volume.' (MLGB)
Presented by William Burdet of Sonning, in 1608.
MS. Auct. D. 4. 18 – Part 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
James; 1 and 2 Peter, fol. 26v; 1, 2, 3 John, fol. 65v; Jude, fol. 91, with the general preface of Jerome.
Two leaves (fols. 97–8) follow the above piece, of which the first contains the sequence 'Sancti Baptiste Christi preconia' with music.
Physical Description
Layout
3 cols.
Notation.
Decoration
Good and other initials (Pächt and Alexander iii. 180)
History
Provenance
A. Coates, English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal (1999), 57, doubts that the manuscript was produced at Reading.
MS. Auct. D. 4. 18 – Part 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
In two books.
With some notes.
On fol. 114v is an extract from the Collationes of Johannes Cassianus (13th cent.).
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Two hands. The second hand, a peculiar square one, which begins on fol. 108v, has corrected the text of the former part.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-05-12: Revised to incorporate all information in SC.