| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. a. 1 (P) |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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Not in SC (late
accession)
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| Summary of contents |
Magna Carta, in the version of
1215.
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| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
13th century, first half |
| Material |
parchment |
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Provenance |
Acquired by J. E. Hodgkin (d.
1912), shortly before the publication of J. C. Jeaffreson,
The Manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, Esq., F.S.A.
(Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fifteenth Report,
Appendix, Part II), London 1897, and thus not fully described therein
(mentioned on p. 1); not included in his sale at Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 and
three following days, nor 18 May 1914 and following day; given to the Bodleian
by his family, 1926.
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|
|
| Bibliography |
| J. E. Hodgkin, Rariora, being notes
of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals,
engravings, pottery, etc., etc., collected (1858-1900) by John Eliot Hodgkin,
F.S.A., 3 vols., London 1902, mentioned at vol. 1, p. 26, and
unpaginated plate opposite, with a partial transcription and translation on the
verso of the plate
|
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. a. 2 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late
accession)
|
| Summary of contents |
'Magna tabula Glastoniensis', extracts concerning the
history and saints of Glastonbury: sheets of parchment mounted on a folding
wooden frame, believed to have been displayed in the abbey church at
Glastonbury.
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| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English, Glastonbury |
| Date |
14th century, late |
| Material |
parchment |
|
|
| Decoration |
| Partial borders; that on the last leaf having an animal design.
Large blue initials with red flourishes; small plain and flourished blue
initials; plain red initials. (P&A iii. 716)
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|
|
|
|
| Bibliography |
| J. A. Bennett, 'A Glastonbury Relic', Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society:
Proceedings During the Year 1888, 34 (n.s. 14), 1889, 117-22, with
frontispiece pl.
|
|
| J. Armitage Robinson, Two Glastonbury
Legends, Cambridge 1926, 41, pl. IV
|
|
| Notable Accessions: Guide to an
Exhibition Held in 1958, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1958, no.
133
|
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. c. 1 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late
accession)
|
| Summary of contents |
Geoffrey of Viterbo, Pantheon.
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| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Italian, Naples (?) |
| Date |
14th century, second half |
| Material |
parchment |
|
|
| Decoration |
| Good border (now largely cut out) on fol. 1r. Illuminated initials
with floral designs, extending into margins, and gold discs (rubbed) on fols.
1r, 20v and 159v. Plain red and blue initials. (P&A ii. 174)
|
| fol. 1r |
| Type |
full border, fragment
|
| Subject |
Acanthus leaves, gold disks, bird. In the upper margin
erased coat of arms.
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|
|
|
Provenance |
Erased arms, fol. 1r. Obit of Ferdinand I, king of Naples, 1494,
entered fol. 176v. Shelfmark 'Col. 14 Scaf[fale] 6'; 'Agostino Nicosiensis',
18th century; J. P. Long; E. P. Goldschmidt, Cat. 13, no. 73, 1928.
|
|
|
| Bibliography |
| Text partly pr. in G. Waitz, MGH
Scriptores, 22 (1872), 107-307; the MS. belongs to his recension
D.
|
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. c. 4 (R) |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late
accession)
|
| Summary of contents |
Roll of household accounts of Prince Edward of
Carnarvon.
|
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
English (?) |
| Date |
1305-1306 |
| Material |
parchment |
|
Provenance |
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 13645; bought at
Sotheby's, 11 Nov. 1946, lot 109.
|
|
|
| Bibliography |
| Bodleian Library Record, 2,
no. 26, Dec. 1947, 195
|
|
| Notable Accessions: Guide to an
Exhibition Held in 1958, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1958, no. 13
|
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. d. 3 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late
accession)
|
| Summary of contents |
Book of precedents, consisting of extracts from the plea
rolls arranged by topic, from cases largely relating to Lancashire and
Cheshire.
|
| Language |
Latin, French |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
c. 1405-1415
|
| Material |
parchment |
|
Provenance |
'J. Hales de ... pill', 15th century; 'Leonard Wight', 16th
century; 'Si hic liber perdatur ...', followed by 'Johanni Man restituat[ur]'
(fol. 333v); John Man, of Canterbury: 'This is Mr John Mans bocke dwellyng | in
Caunterbury' (fol. 333v), 'Liber Johannis Man' Cantuar.' (fols. 1r, 333v);
'This volume belonged to Dr. Nasmith the editor of Tanner's Notitia Monastica'
[1787] (fol. ir); bought by the Bodleian in
1950.
|
|
|
| Bibliography |
| Bodleian Library Record, 3,
no. 33, Dec. 1951, 281
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|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. d. 4 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late
accession)
|
| Composite |
fols. 1-48 || fols. 49-244 |
| Summary of contents |
Martin (Polonus) of Troppau, Chronicon
pontificum et imperatorum, with continuations for 1277-85. || 'Matthew
of Westminster', Flores historiarum, with other
historical and prophetic texts.
|
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Italian || English, Bury St. Edmunds (?) |
| Date |
14th century, first half || 1313-1316, with later
additions
|
| Material |
parchment |
|
|
| Decoration |
| Historiated initials. Added marginal drawings. (P&A iii.
588)
|
| Initial Q with a face of a bearded man, and sprays with acorns and
oak leaves extending into margins.
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| Catchwords decorated with grotesques, human and animal heads,
pointing hands, flowers and fish.
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| Added marginal drawings of crowns, shields, pointing hands, human
profiles and figures, and heads of kings, queens, saints, etc.
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| Red initials with red and brown penwork. |
|
|
|
Provenance |
Pressmark 'C. 59' and 'Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi de
empcione fratris Willelmi de Colcestr' in quo continentur subscripta. Videlicet
...' followed by a list of contents (fol. viv); 'C.
59' and 'Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi' (fol. 1r) written by Henry of
Kirkestede, the 14th-century librarian of Bury St. Edmunds; Dr. Charles Taylor
(d. 1836); bought from his executors by Sir Thomas
Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 11257; Sotheby's 30 Nov. 1965, lot 16, with pl. of
fol. 1.
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|
|
| Bibliography |
| Sotheby's 30 Nov. 1965, lot 16, with pl. of fol. 1 |
|
| A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and
Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford
Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 542 (fols. 49-224), II, pl. 157 (fol.
120v)
|
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. e. 1 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late
accession)
|
| Summary of contents |
Burchard (or Brocardus) de Monte Sion, Descriptio terrae sanctae. Oliver of Paderborn,
Historia Damiatina.
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| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Austrian |
| Date |
13th century, late |
| Material |
parchment |
|
|
| Decoration |
| Fine miniature (drawing) on the flyleaf, fol. i recto, traced on
the reverse. Red and blue flourished initials. (P&A i. 128, pl. IX)
|
|
|
|
Provenance |
No. 401 in the Admont Stiftsbibliothek; bought from E. P.
Goldschmidt, Cat. 100, no. 24, 1936.
|
|
|
| Bibliography |
| The Oliver of Paderborn is MS. A in the edition by H.
Hoogeweg, Bibliothek des litterarischen Vereins in
Stuttgart, 202, Tübingen 1894, 159-280
|
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Lat. hist. e. 2 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late
accession)
|
| Summary of contents |
Maurice Chauncy, Passio sanctorum
patrum Carthusianorum Angliae. || Bound in a bifolium of a noted Missal,
12th century.
|
| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Flemish, Bruges || German, South |
| Date |
1570 || 12th century |
| Material |
paper ||
parchment
|
|
Provenance |
'158' and '745 [changed to 753]' on spine labels; No. 359 in the
library of Leander van Ess (1772-1847) (on whom see Hermann Knaus, 'Die
Handschriften des Leander van Eß', Archiv für Geschichte
des Buchwesens, vol. 1 (pts. 3/4, 1956), 1958, 331-6; and Milton McC.
Gatch, ed., 'so precious a foundation': The Library of
Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City
of New York, New York, 1996), '59' on spine label; Sir Thomas Phillipps
(1792-1872), MS. 743; received through the bequest of Rev. C. H. Bickerton
Hudson, 1938.
|
|
|
| Bibliography |
| Sammlung und Verzeichniss
handschriftlicher Bücher aus dem VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. etc.
Jahrhundert ... welche besitzt Leander van Ess, Darmstadt 1823, 56, no.
359
|
|
| Bodleian Library Record, 1,
no. 1, Oct. 1938, 15
|
|
| Summary catalogue of post-medieval
western manuscripts, no. 47832
|
|
| S. J. P. van Dijk, Handlist of the
Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 7 vols. in
8, 1957-60 (unpublished typescript), V, 139
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