A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Tanner 165

Summary Catalogue no.: 9991

Contents

Register of William Molash, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, from 1427,

including:

Registrum angliae de libris doctorum et auctorum ueterum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century ; English, Canterbury, Christ Church

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

William Bowyer ( d. 1569/70), 1566. Thomas White, Bp. of Peterborough. William Sancroft (1617–1693), archbishop of Canterbury. (MLGB3)

Registrum librorum Angliӕ on fols. 103–120r (Clxii–Cxxv by the medieval foliation, which shows that these leaves have been bound up here since s. xv). (MLGB3)

Thomas Tanner, 1674–1735

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian in 1735.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (A. Hackman, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars quarta codices viri admodum reverendi Thomæ Tanneri, S.T.P., episcopi Asaphensis, complectens, Quarto Catalogues IV, repr. 1966, with corrections, from the ed. of 1860).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.