MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 4
Summary Catalogue no.: 4089
Contents
Bible.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
Stamped brown leather on boards, reproduced in S. Gibson's Some Notable Bodleian Bindings, pl. 6, Oxford work of about 1480.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Worcester, Worcestershire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorn teste Guil. Thornhill eius prebendario". William Thornhill, prebendary 1584–1626. Several illegible erased inscriptions. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Turner, Lat. 12. Was cautio of "M. Benet monachi" in the Chycheley chest, AD 1482. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1937). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.