MS. Lyell 16

Petrus Ruffensis (attrib.), Summula uitiorum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Initial on fol. 1r in red and blue joined to frame border of penwork with alternating bands of red and blue and projecting red water-lily-shaped flower heads.

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: 'Petrus Ruffensis in summula viciorum. Ihesu miserere. Liber domini Iohannis Manbe monachi dunelm'', all in one large hand inside front cover. (Medieval stamped binding; stamps like Gibson's 6 and 80, and another border stamp.) (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

'John Bracke owe this booke' (c. 1600). J. H. Bransby (s. xix). Sold at Christie's, 22 Feb. 1946, lot 177, to E. Ph. Goldschmidt. Bought from him by James P. R. Lyell, by whom bequeathed to the Bodleian. (MLGB3)

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)

Catalogue, p. 38

Catalogue, p. 39