MS. Barlow 32
Summary Catalogue no.: 6479
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Physical Description
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Decoration
Some fine, other good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 616)
Binding
Contemporary, red leather upon bevelled boards, two brass and leather clasps, one broken.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Liber sepulture Randulphi de Londoniis D. xiiii G. iiii Et est liber Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis." (s. xiv). "LIBER RAND' DE LONDONII S " (three dots in between words). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
"Liber Thomae Barlow è Coll. Reg. Oxon' anno MDCXXX". (MLGB3)
Medieval binding. M. R. James, p. 533. (MLGB3)
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.