MS. Barlow 49
Summary Catalogue no.: 6414
Physical Description
Binding
Brown leather, gold-tooled, on boards, with the arms of sir Robert Cotton on the outer front cover.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
? no. 110 in John Dee's catalogue: note that Dee's ladder mark is on fol. 1r of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 145. Robert Cotton (fol. 4r). Dr John Prideaux. (MLGB3).
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
MS. Barlow 49 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
History
Provenance
Fols. 4-56: Syon, Middlesex, Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget: Barlow 49 fols. 4-56, and Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 245 are parts of the manuscript entered in Betson's catalogue at N.16 (CBMLC SS1.870): bound in Cottonian binding with a register of documents concerning Faringdon and a cartulary of Holy Trinity Pontefract. This is part of the original volume as described in Betson's catalogue as being on fols. 30-82. Oxford CCC 245, which is in the same hand, was fols. 86-179 of the same volume. Barlow 49 is badly cut by Robert Cotton's binder. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
MS. Barlow 49 – Part 2 (fols. 58-114)
Contents
The Account-Book of Beaulieu Abbey, ed. S. F. Hockey, Camden Society 4th ser. 16 (1975)
Physical Description
History
Provenance
Beaulieu, Hampshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: Provenance inferred from subject-matter. The compotus goes with a custumal of the manor of Faringdon, and Faringdon was a manor of Beaulieu. Now bound (item 2) with books from (1) Sion and (3) Pontefract. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
MS. Barlow 49 – Part 3
Contents
Physical Description
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.