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MS. Lat. misc. f. 37

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Contents

– of Merevale (?), Campus florum

Second volume, I - Z

Incipit: I vocalis est et consonans. Consonans est quocienscunque ante quamlibet vocalium reperitur
Explicit: specierum aromaticarum temperativam

Followed (fol.329) by a short note by the compiler on the citation in the margins of authors used, and (fol.329v) a list of these. Leiden, University Library MS. Voss. lat. fol.81 contains a complete text with preface stating that the work was compiled at the Cistercian abbey of Merevale. Another MS. was A.66 in the Syon catalogue (ed. M. Bateson p.8). Cf. also Bale, Index Brit. Scriptorum, ed. Poole p.458.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: - cit quem benedicit.
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 331 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 70 mm.

Collation

1(12)–9(12), 10(10), 11(12)–27(12), 28(6), catchwords, quires 1–20 signed b - x on the lower right hand corner of the first leaf

Layout

23 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 695:

Fine borders.

Fine initials at the beginnings of sections.

The rest flourished in blue, gold, and purple.

Binding

early 17th cent. binding, reversed calf.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Colchester, Essex, Franciscan convent: "Memorandum quod Johannes Baldwyn' vicarius de Ardeleigh' contulit hunc librum ffratri Matheo Shypman ordinis minorum conuentus Colcestr' anno domini millesimo quingentesimo decimo scriptum manu propria dicti vicarii" (fol. 1r) (Ardleigh is 4 1/2 miles N.E. of Colchester). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

Offered for sale by Francis Edwards, Ltd (83 Marylebone High St., W. 1) Cat. 624 item 253 (1938) for £30 and in Cat. 637 item 110 (1939) for £24. Bought by the Bodleian from Ph. Goldschmidt in 1942 (£50). (MLGB3)

'Memorandum quod Johannes Baldwyn' vicarius de Ardeleigh' contulit hunc librum Fratri Matheo Shypman' ordinis Minorum conuentus Colcestr' Anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo decimo script(um) manu propria dicti vicarij' (fol. 3r)

Rev. H. K. Creed (front inside cover)

Bought from E. P. Goldschmidt Ltd., 1942, with the help of a contribution from N. R. Ker.

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian library staff, revised by Peter Kidd, late 1990s.

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.