MS. e Mus. 112
Summary Catalogue no.: 3578
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vi + 336 + ii pages
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 168 mm.
Layout
1 col., 30 lines, 173 × 100 mm.
Binding
White leather on boards, with tags at top and bottom, chain-fittings and clasp gone.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Baldewinus prior sancti Edmundi fecit scribi hunc librum, in quo continentur. . .' (flyleaf, p. iii, s. xiv). 'J 13' (top right-hand corner of first leaf, p.1). Medieval binding (white leather over square boards; formerly one clasp, flaps projecting at head and foot of spine). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
John Parry, 1653–4. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources.
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 657
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.