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MS. Douce 368

Summary Catalogue no.: 21943

Contents

Bede, Historia ecclesiastica
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 150 leaves in double columns
Dimensions (binding): 16.75 × 11.625 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 104, pl. X:

Fine historiated initials.

Fine historiated other initials.

Binding

Bound for Thomas Rawlinson.

History

Origin: 12th century, second quarter ; English, Winchcomb

Provenance and Acquisition

Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, Benedictine abbey of St Kenelm: "In hoc volumine continetur liber uenerabilis bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice historie gentis anglorum quod quidem volumen pertinet ad monasterium Winchelcombense" (s. xv); inscription on a label now pasted to fol. ii verso but formerly fastened by 12 nails to one of the covers of the old binding (present binding of s. xviii). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Rawlinson (sale cat. 1721, no. 399, bought by "West" for £4). Philip Carterel Webb. G. Brander sale. (MLGB3)

Cf. Plummer, Baedae Op. Hist., 1. cxv. (MLGB3)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 609

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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