MS. Eng. hist. c. 775
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Contents
Inventory of the treasure of Richard II, 13 May 1378
Rubric: Ceste endenture tesmoigne que John Bacoun clerc Gardein de certeins ioialx & veassell dor & dargent du Roi Richard ad receu de nostre dit seignour le Roi par la deliuerance de seignour William de Sleford dean de Westm. les vessellementz dor & dargent & autres choses quenuent poisez & prisez en manere qensuyt cestassauoir
Incipit: Un peir de bacyns dargent enorr & eymell en les founces de Roi Dauid
Explicit: Deux paeles de feer pur feu
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Physical Description
Form: roll
Support: parchment
Extent: 12 leaves (roll, cut up and mounted in codex form), each leaf mounted on paper, with padding before and after, the leaves 240–50 × 280–315mm.
Foliation: Modern, in pencil: 1–12
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly bound with other 14th- and 15th-century documents (MSS. Ch. Suffolk 1579, Ch. England 19–53) in a collection owned and perhaps assembled by Thomas Martin. The former binding is now MS. Eng. hist. c. 774.
Craven Ord, lot 1014 in his sale, 25 Jan. 1830.
Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS. 4103.
Sotheby's, 26 June 1975; bought.
Record Sources
Preliminary description by Matthew Holford, Feb. 2016
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.