MS. Auct. F. inf. 1. 1
Summary Catalogue no.: 2439
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Bks. IV-IX, with commentary of Dionysius de Burgo
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 51 lines, column space 263 × 70 mm.
Hand(s)
Humanistic script.
Decoration
Fine borders, initials. Fine penwork borders, initials. (P&A iii. 920, pl. LXXXVI)
Arms of St Albans, Tynemouth priory, England, and Humfrey duke of Gloucester, fol. 1.
Rubrics.
Binding
Stamped leather on boards, re-backed but with the old back inserted, clasps lost; Oxford, early 17th century.
Accompanying Material
Fly leaves: two leaves from a Latin missal, English, 15th century.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Made for John Whethamstede, abbot of St Albans: lambs and eagles in the borders representing his namesakes, St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist. The second volume of a set of two (‘Valerii Glossati in duobus voluminibus’) commissioned by him in the period of his first abbacy (1420-40): Annales Monasterii S. Albani a Johanne Amundesham...conscripti, ed. H. T. Riley (1871), II, p. 268.
Presented by him to the library of St Albans Abbey (inscription, fol. 168v).
Later given by him to Gloucester College, Oxford (inscription, fol. 168v).
Fol. 3v: ‘Magister J(?) Wart(er)’, perhaps John Warder of St Albans Abbey and Gloucester College (Emden, BRUO).
fol. 149: ‘Robert Foster’, 16th century.
Acquired by 1602.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)