MS. Douce 89

Summary Catalogue no.: 21663

Theological treatises and extracts

Language(s): Latin

Sermons

Language(s): Latin

Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita metrica S. Mariae Aegyptiacae

Language(s): Latin

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