MS. Top. Yorks. c. 72

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Followed by a table of contents added in the 18th century. The endowments are abstracted alphabetically in J. Burton, Mon. Ebor. 100–12, with references to the cartulary. In addition to the Yorkshire properties mention is made of places in Leicestershire ('Bestcaldy' (Bescaby) , fol. 75, Garthorpe, fol. 73v, and Saltby, fol. 75), and Lincolnshire (Grimsby, fol. 89v, Middle Rasen, fol. 71v, Roxby, fol. 68v, and Swinstead, fol. 73). See Hist. MSS. Comm. Report. 1, App. p. 45; Monasticon III, 195.

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 94)

Addition in English, dated 15 Hen. VIII

Language(s): English

(fol. 97)

Recipe

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

iii (paper) + 106 + 12 (18th?-century paper) + vi (paper)

Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 215 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 260 × 165–80 mm.

Foliation: Foliated mostly in ink in arabic numerals, 16th/17th-cent, top right of rectos, i-iii, 1–6b, 7–13b, 14–18d, 19–23b, 24–45b, 46–47b, 48–72c, 73–115; of these, most of fols. i-8, 90–115 are supplied in modern pencil; also paginated in ink in arabic numerals within parentheses, top left of pages

Collation

1–3(12), 4(14), 5(1), 6(10), 7(12), 8(2), 9(12)(2 missing), 10(6), 11–12(4)

Layout

43–52 lines per page

Hand(s)

Mostly written in a hand in which a document of Easter 23 Edw. III (fol. 78v) is entered. Later additions were being made in another hand by St. Lucia's day, 33 Edw. III (fol. 90).

Binding

Bound probably between 1837 and 1866 by 'W. BARRATT, | Bookbinder, | 21, PORTUGAL STREET | Lincolns Inn Fields.' (see Maurice Packer, Bookbinders of Victorian London (London, 1991), 13), with his printed paper label on fol. iv: bound in brown leather over pasteboards, with a central diced panel surrounded by a broad border of blind-tooled neo-gothic designs, with a few details in gilt; the spine with four wide raised bands, blind-tooled foliate ornament, and a brown leather title piece lettered in gilt 'CARTULARIU[M] | PRIORATU[M] | DE DRAX | COM. EBO[R.]'; marbled endpapers.

History

Origin: c. 1350, with later additions ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Marmaduke Constable, Everingham, 1620

The Constable, afterwards the Constable-Maxwell family, barons Herries, with their bookplate on the upper pastedown

Gwendolen, Duchess of Norfolk

Bernard Quaritch, with their partly-erased price-code on fol. 115r, and their number ‘778’ in a rectangle on fol. iv.

Bought by the Bodleian from Quaritch 9 October 1947, with a printed label on the upper pastedown 'BOUGHT OUT OF | THE | BLAKISTON FUND'

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff, revised by Peter Kidd, late 1990s

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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