MS. Barlow 48
Summary Catalogue no.: 6428
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Physical Description
Decoration
Good initials, partly mutilated. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 288)
Binding
White parchment on bevelled boards, 15th-cent. English work.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber ecclesie sancte Marie de Cyrencestria" (c. 1300). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
(lower pastedown) "Robert ap Powell ap Rychard Llewellyn or Ploythe Lantowny in comitatu Herford'" (s. xvii). (MLGB3)
Apparently copied from S.C. 6418 (see Malmesbury). Title and note on fol. 1r probably in hand of Sir John Prise. (MLGB3)
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.