John Fell (1625-1686) took his MA in 1643 from Christ Church, Oxford,
became dean of Christ Church in 1660 and was elected bishop of Oxford in 1675.
He left the Bodleian a small but valuable collection of manuscripts. MSS. Fell
1, 3, and 4 were returned to Salisbury Cathedral Library in 1985; for the
circumstances surrounding this restoration, see David Vaisey, 'Thomas Hyde and
manuscript collecting at the Bodleian Library', in The
foundations of scholarship: libraries and collecting, 1650-1750: papers
presented at a Clark Library seminar, 9 March 1985 (Los Angeles, 1992),
pp. 3-27. The Bodleian has consultation microfilms of these three
manuscripts.
| Shelfmark |
MS. Fell 1, MS. Fell 3, MS. Fell 4 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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8688, 8687, 8689 |
| Summary of contents |
Returned to Salisbury Cathedral Library in 1985. |
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1211 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1212 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1213 |
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| Bibliography (MS. Fell 1) |
| 1994 |
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| Cited in more than one article in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings, ed. Mary P.
Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland Reference
Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York & London
1994, pp. 73, 200, 214 [= Gneuss no. 623]
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| 1993 |
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| R. A. B. Mynors & R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral
Library, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer for The Dean and Chapter of Hereford
Cathedral,
1993, p. 111
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.
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| Bibliography (MS. Fell 3) |
| 1994 |
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| David N. Dumville, 'English libraries before 1066: use and
abuse of the manuscript evidence' [revised version of article first printed
1981], in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings,
ed. Mary P. Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland
Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York & London
1994, pp. 169-219, at p. 200 [= Gneuss no.
624].
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| 1992 |
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| Gernot Wieland, 'England in the German legends of the
Anglo-Saxon saints', in Words, Texts and Manuscripts:
Studies in Anglo-Saxon culture presented to Helmut Gneuss on the occasion of
his sixty-fifth birthday, eds. Michael Korhammer and others, Cambridge:
D. S. Brewer,
1992, pp. 193-212, at p. 193n.
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| Bibliography (MS. Fell 4) |
| 1994 |
|
| Cited in more than one article in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings, ed. Mary P.
Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland Reference
Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York & London
1994, pp. 73, 200, 214 [= Gneuss no. 625]
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| 1993 |
|
| R. A. B. Mynors & R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral
Library, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer for The Dean and Chapter of Hereford
Cathedral,
1993, p. 111
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Fell 2 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
8690 |
| Composite |
pp. vii-xii, 465-472 || pp. 1-44 || pp.
45-50, 295-308, 460-464 || pp. 51-294, 309-459
|
| Summary of contents |
Sermons. || Life of St. Edmund of Abingdon. || Lives of
Saints. || Lives of Saints.
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| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English, Canterbury St. Augustine's |
| Date |
13th century || 13th century, second half || 12th
century, second half || c. 1100-1130
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| - || - || Good historiated initial (P&A iii. 256, pl. XXV) ||
Fine initials (mutilated) (P&A iii. 68)
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| Images |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1213 |
| Catalogue image |
Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1214 |
| Manuscript image |
fol. 439 Page with decorative initial M(aximiliano). The Passion of
St. Sabina, Legendary (winter art).
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| Bibliography |
| 1999 |
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| Richard Gameson, The manuscripts of
Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130),
Oxford, etc.: OUP for The British Academy,
1999, p. 137 no. 724
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| 1997 |
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| Sandy Heslop & John Mitchell, 'The arts and learning',
in English Heritage Book of St Augustine's Abbey
Canterbury, ed. Richard Gem, London: B. T. Batsford / English Heritage,
1997, pp. 67-89, at p. 83, colour pl. 10
(fol. 45r detail)
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| 1995 |
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| Richard Gameson, 'English manuscript art in the late
eleventh century: Canterbury and its context', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and
Scholars 1066-1109, eds. Richard Eales & Richard Sharpe, London
& Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press,
1995, pp. 95-144, at pp. 124 n., 126 n.,
128 n., 129 n., 144
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| 1993 |
|
| R. A. B. Mynors & R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral
Library, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer for The Dean and Chapter of Hereford
Cathedral,
1993, p. 112
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.
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