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MS. Tanner 3

Summary Catalogue no.: 9823

Gregory the Great, Dialogi

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 1 r)

Papal letter to bishop Roger of Worcester added in the 12th century

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniature (retouched).

Plain gold initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 45, pl. V)

History

Origin: 11th century, second quarter ; English, West (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Worcester, Worcestershire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin (?) : Papal letter to Roger, bp. of Worcester (s. xii) added on the originally blank recto of the first leaf (fol. 1r). Fol. 1v has the note ":9 et est liber dialogorum Gregorii [pape] 2 o fo. in monasterio et con prec xiii s viii d" (s. xiv). Letter and book list on fol. 190r printed by Bannister in EHR 3,2 (1917), p. 387. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Given to Tanner by Hugh Lloyd, Vicar of Mold, in 1735. (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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 82

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 4