MS. Lyell 38

Richard Rolle, Emendatio uitae

Language(s): Latin

Richard Rolle, Paruum Iob siue Libellus in nouem lectiones mortuorum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials blue flourished in red.

History

Origin: 16th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Bristol, Gloucestershire, Hospital of St Mark of Billeswick, otherwise Gaunt's hospital, of Augustinian canons: Monogram IC on fol. 34r, as in Bodley 618. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

Sir Simeon Stuart Bart. James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948). (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. 105

Catalogue, p. 106

Catalogue, p. 107