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MS. Douce 89

Summary Catalogue no.: 21663

Contents

1.
Theological treatises and extracts
Language(s): Latin
2.
Sermons
Language(s): Latin
4.
Ps.-Bede, De septem mirabilibus Romae
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 143 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.5 × 4.875 in.

History

Origin: 13th century, early

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "D. VIII. G. V. Liber fratris I. Pistoris" (with list of contents, fol. iv verso, s. xiii in.). "Collecciones I. pistoris cum. b." (fol. iv verso, s. xiv in.) (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

'Iacobus Watts me iure tenet. Hoc non verum' (fol. 140v: 16th cent. ?).

David Swan ('Bibliotheca Swaniana') (Douce Legacy, no. 88)

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. 517

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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