MS. Top. Devon d. 5
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no full description available
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
34 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Gothic script with secretary features
Decoration
Plain blue initials.
Binding
Original sewing on seven split thongs, entering the original wood boards through their outer faces, the boards with cushioned edges; the upper and lower pastedowns show evidence of a pair of strap-and-pin clasps, the pins towards the middle of the lower board; the boards coverd with polished brown leather, blind-tooled with simple fillets; the spine with a 20th-century black leather title piece lettered in gilt 'M. S. S. | NEWENHAM | ABBEY | DEVON', and with an uncharacteristic 19th-century paper label inscribed with the Phillipps number: '+25088'
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Added notes relating to Adam Molens, bishop of Chichester (fol. 122v), also mentioning David Moleyns, esquire, John Hembury, vicar of Axminster, John Pery, and Henry Bony.
Erased inscription on fol. 123v.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), his MS. 25088, with this number on the upper pastedown and spine, and with his reference number ‘a.52.1179’ pencilled on fol. i recto.
Sold at Sotheby's, 1 December 1947, lot 32; bought by the Bodleian.
Record Sources
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.