MS. Selden Supra 39

Summary Catalogue no.: 3427

Incipit: Pro quibus culpis & penitencijs sit penitens ad episcopum proprium remittendus. Ad hoc quod tu confessor procedere debe

Forty-five cases are given in which recourse must be had to the bishop

Michael Haren, Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England: A Study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford, 2000)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 70 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 8.25 × 5.625 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 730, Pl. LXXII (no. 730a and 730b)

Fine historiated border

Fine historiated initials

Fine initials

Fine drawing, fol. 68 (Pl. LXXII (no. 730a and 730b)

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Merton, Surrey, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Ioannes Ramsey canonicus de Merton hunc librum possidet" (16th century, before 1538) (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 Selden, 1584–1654

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1659