MS. Lyell 21
Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Abingdon, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber monasterii beate Marie Abendonensis adquisitus per fratrem Rogerum de Dounehed' (top of p. 1) (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Lord Litchfield (see Hearne, Collections, 7. 33, 36) Bibliotheca Swaniana 1792 George Scott sale, Sotheby, 12 March 1781, lot 123, to Jackson (14s.) Duke of Newcastle, Clumber Sold (Sotheby, lot 1210) 15 Feb. 1938 to Myers (New Bond Street) Bought by Davis and Orioli (Museum Street) for J. P. R. Lyell (MLGB3)
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
MS. Lyell 21 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Initial on fol. 1r in blue on brownish-red ground, framed in gold, infilled with leaves in the same colours on a gold ground, and joined to a bar border on three sides, ending in sprays of spiky foliage on the fourth side. The colours are decorated in white. Other initials are blue flourished in red. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 697)
History
MS. Lyell 21 – Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Plain red or blue initials.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.