Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. misc. c. 291

Author:

Title:

Collection of fragments

Language:

Latin, French, English

Origin:

England

Date:

Late 12th cent., early 13th cent., 15th cent.

Provenance:

B. Halliday, Leicester, Cat. 242, item 375; given to the Bodleian by N. R. Ker, 1942

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Yes

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Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. misc. c. 674

Author:

Title:

Guardbook

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

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No

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Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. misc. d. 239

Author:

Cicero

Title:

Epistolae ad familiares; bifolium used as a wrapper for a post-medieval MS.

Language:

Latin

Origin:

Northeast Italy

Date:

15th cent., second quarter

Provenance:

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Yes

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Summary catalogue of post-medieval western manuscripts, no. 45226

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MS. Eng. misc. e. 558

Author:

Title:

Lapidary in prose

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent., second half

Provenance:

2nd baron Mostyn (bookplate), inscribed with Mostyn nos. 'MS | No | 225' and '(113)'; Mostyn sale, Sotheby's 13 July 1920, lot 68, bought by Tregaskis for £10 10s.; given by F. E. Norris, 1963

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Bodleian Library Record, 7, no. 4, Dec. 1964, 220

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. misc. f. 36

Author:

Title:

Manual of heraldry

Language:

English, Latin, French

Origin:

England

Date:

Late 15th - early 16th cent.

Provenance:

John Anstis, with his shelfmark 'Q 25'; David Askew of Pallinsburn, Northumberland (cf. MS. Eng. misc. c. 97); Matthew Mackay sale, Newcastle, 1920

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Summary catalogue of post-medieval western manuscripts, no. 43488

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MS. Eng. poet. c. 3

Author:

Title:

Collection of fragments

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

Early 14th cent. to mid-16th cent.

Provenance:

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Yes

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Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. poet. c. 4

Author:

Title:

Fragment of a leaf of a metrical Life of St. Oswald

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

14th cent.

Provenance:

Quaritch Rough List 149, part of item 10 (with cutting)

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No

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Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. poet. d. 45

Author:

Peter Idley

Title:

Instructions to his Son

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

Inscr. John Clifford, Mary Clifford, Hanna Clifford, Richard [...], Giles Kendall, 16th cent.; Clifford family of Frampton Court, Glos.; Maggs Cat. 687, no. 176.

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Bodleian Library Record, 1, no. 10, June 1940, 174

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. poet. d. 200

Author:

Title:

Fragments of 12 leaves of the South English Legendary

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

14th cent., second half; 15th cent.

Provenance:

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Yes

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Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. poet. d. 208

Author:

Title:

Fragments of Romances concerning Sir Gawain?, Sir Triamour, and Sir Bevis?

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

Recovered from a binding by Garret Godfrey of Cambridge (1503-39); mounted by Lt. Col. W. E. Moss in a guardbook entitled 'A Poetry Pasty by Garret Godfrey' (cf. related papers: MS. Eng. poet. d. 209)

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Bodleian Library Record, 5, no. 3, July 1955, 164 ('A Poetry Pasty')

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. poet. e. 94

Author:

Title:

South English Legendary, two leaves

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

14th - 15th cent.

Provenance:

Bought, 1955

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Yes

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Bodleian Library Record, 6, no. 6, Sept. 1961, 663

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. th. c. 57

Author:

Title:

Treatise for the instruction of priests

Language:

English, Latin

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent., second half

Provenance:

'W. Browne 1555'; Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth, Sotheby's 15 Oct. 1945, and following day, lot. 2114, bought by Maggs for £68; bought by the Bodleian from Maggs Bros., 1945

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Sotheby's 15 Oct. 1945, lot. 2114; Bodleian Library Record, 2, no. 24, July 1946, 147-8

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. th. c. 58

Author:

Ps.-Bonaventure, et al.

Title:

Mirror of the Life of Christ, etc.

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

William Squyer; 'Honest' Tom Martin of Palgrave; John Ives (stamp on fol. 1r), his sale, Baker & Leigh, 3 March 1777; John Borthwick of Crookston, Catalogue No. IX; Major J. H. S. Borthwick, of Borthwick, Crookston, Heriot, Midlothian (bookplate), his sale at Sotheby's 3-4 June 1946, lot 196, with plate

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Bodleian Library Record, 2, no. 25, June 1947, 169-70

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. th. c. 70

Author:

Title:

Ancren Riwle, one leaf

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

14th cent., first half

Provenance:

Formerly used as a wrapper of a book in the Library at Lanhydrock; no. 145 in the Lanhydrock guardbook which is now MS. Lat. misc. b. 17; given by Viscount Clifden, 1959

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Bodleian Library Record, 6, no. 5, Aug. 1960, 625

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. th. c. 74

Author:

Aelfric

Title:

Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Homilies; bound with photocopies of other fragments from the same MS.

Language:

Latin

Origin:

Date:

11th cent., first half

Provenance:

From the binding of a copy of Sugustine Sermons, Paris, 1520 (now Bodleian, Vet.E.1b.10, the binding stored separately as Vet.E.1b.10*) fom the presbytery library at Winchester; bought by the Bodleian at Hodgson's, 19-20 Jan. 1967, lot 630.

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Yes

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R. L. Collins, P. Clemoes, 'The common origin of Aelfric fragments at New Haven, Oxford, Cambridge and Bloomington', Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, ed. R. B. Burlin, E. B. Irving Jr., Toronto, 1974, 285-301; the recto of the present leaf ill. in pl. 2; cf. strips in Queen's College, Cambridge, described in N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon, Oxford, 1957, no. 81, pp. 127-8

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. th. d. 36

Author:

Henry Parker (attrib.)

Title:

Dives et Pauper

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

Inscribed 'Miles Barne' (fol. 148r); Inscribed 'William C' in a flourished 18th(?)-cent. hand on fol. 219v; with a cutting from a Sotheby's sale catalogue pasted to the upper pastedown, describing the MS. as of the 14th cent.; Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); Henry Yates Thompson, aquired as part of the Ashburnham Appendix in May 1797, and with his bookplate inscribed 'From the Library | of the | Earl of Ashburnham | Appendix N^o...... | May 1897.', the gap inscribed in purple crayon with the Appendix number 'CXLII', and in the lower right corner '80'; resold at Sotheby's 1 May 1899, lot 90; Quaritch (?) inscribed in pencil '55' within a box in the lower left corner of fol. i^r; Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth; sold by the Harmsworth Trust at Sotheby's, 16 Oct. 1945, lot 2055, with a cutting from the sale catalogue pasted to the upper pastedown, bought by Maggs, for £92; inscribed in pencil '5 [or S[otheby's]?]/10/45' on the lower pastedown; inscribed in pencil '19/5/53' ?? on the lower pastedown; Maggs Bros., 1950; inscribed in pencil by the Bodleian 'P.[urchased] 10.vi.50' in the lower left corner of fol. i^r; various other pencil inscription on the pastedowns and flyleaves

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Bodleian Library Record, 3, no. 33, Dec. 1951, 281-2

P. H. Barnum (ed.), Dives and Pauper (E.E.T.S., 275 (o.s.) I, pt. 1), 1976, p. xi & passim

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. th. e. 181

Author:

Title:

Lay Folks' Catechism, a fragment of MSS. Douce 273-4

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

14th cent.

Provenance:

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No

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Anne Hudson, 'A New Look at the Lay Folks' Catechism', Viator, 16, 1985, 243-58, and 'The Lay Folks' Catechism: a Postscript', Viator, 19, 1988, 307-9

Bodleian Library Record, 12, no. 6, April 1988, 489-90

Shelfmark:

MS. Eng. th. f. 39

(formerly Helmingham Hall, MS. L.J.II.9)

Author:

Title:

Devotional tracts and sermons

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

Late 14th - early 15th cent., after 1389

Provenance:

Harward, 17th cent.; 3rd Earl of Dysart (1648-1726) (but see also Edward Wilson, 'The Book-Stamps of the Tollemache Family of Hemlingham and Ham', The Book Collector, 16, 1967, 178-85), on whom see E. D. H. Tollemache, The Tollemaches of Helmingham and Ham, Ipswich, 1949, 94-9, with a confused account of the library at p. 176; Tollemach library, Helmingham Hall, Sotheby's 6 June 1961, lot 9; Quaritch, 1961

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Sotheby's 6 June 1961, lot 9