MSS. Wood

Introduction

Anthony à Wood (1632-1695) received his BA (1652) and MA (1655) from Merton College, Oxford. His 'History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford' was published in Latin translation by Oxford University Press in 1674, and in a longer form in English by John Gutch in 1786-1790. Apart from diaries and letters, there are three collections of Wood manuscripts. The first consists of 126 MSS. (MSS. Wood, and MS. Wood Rolls 1) bequeathed in November 1695 with 970 printed books. They were housed in the Ashmolean Museum until their transfer to the Bodleian in 1860, and are chiefly Wood's own collections for the history of the university and the city of Oxford. The second comprises medieval manuscripts bought from Wood (MSS. Wood empt.). The third collection is a bequest of Dr. Gerard Langbaine's Adversaria (MSS. Wood donat., all post-medieval).

Shelfmark	MS. Wood B. 3
Summary Catalogue no.	8574
Summary of contents	Juvenal, Satires, i-iii.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	11th century
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1193


Bibliography
1994

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. 214

Shelfmark	MS. Wood C. 12
Summary Catalogue no.	8571
Summary of contents	Book of Hours. Use of Sarum.
Language	Latin
Origin	English and Flemish
Date	15th century, third quarter
Material	parchment
Decoration	Good Flemish border and initials. Written in England. (P&A i. 347)


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1192
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1193

Shelfmark	MS. Wood D. 8
Summary Catalogue no.	8538
Summary of contents	Short calendarial tracts. Walter Burley, Liber meteororum. Theorica planetarum (here attrib. Walter Brytte). Geoffrey of Huntingdon, Imago mundi. English translation of Johannes de Burgundia, Treatise on pestilence. Other scientific treatises.
Language	English and Latin
Origin	English, Essex Writtle
Date	c. 1485
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1185


Bibliography
1999

George R. Keiser, 'Practical books for the gentleman', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. III, 1400-1557, eds. Lotte Hellinga & J. B. Trapp, Cambridge 1999, pp. 470-494, at pp. 476 and n. 21, 477, 483 SCWMSS archive: = REFS. CXIII.16 [copy of this article only]

1995

V. I. J. Flint, Honorius Augustodunensis of Regensburg (Authors of the Middle Ages: Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West, ed. Patrick J. Geary, vol. II, No. 6 [with No. 5]), Aldershot: Variorum, 1995, p. 167

Shelfmark	MS. Wood F. 10
Summary Catalogue no.	8472
Summary of contents	Rentals of Oseney abbey, 1453-1481.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	1453-1481
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1167

Shelfmark	MS. Wood F. 15
Summary Catalogue no.	8477
Summary of contents	Oseney abbey rental, in 1498, on six folios, with marginalia by Anthony àWood.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Oseney
Date	1498
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1169

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 1
Summary Catalogue no.	8589
Summary of contents	Prefixed leaves: fragment from a collection of statutes; Treaty of Calais (incomplete); etc. \|\| Cartulary of Glastonbury ('Secretum abbatis').
Language	Latin and French \|\| Latin
Origin	French \|\| English, Glastonbury
Date	late 14th century and 15th century \|\| 1342-1348
Material	parchment
Decoration	- \|\| Fine border, historiated initials. Good penwork borders, initials. (P&A iii. 593, pl. LXI)


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1197
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1198
Manuscript image	fol. 1r Start of a chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey, made during the abbacy of Abbot John de Breynton, and displaying the initials of the next abbot, Walter de Monyton.


Bibliography
2000

English Episcopal Acta, 19: Salisbury 1217-1228, ed. B. R. Kemp, Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2000, no. 286

1999

English Episcopal Acta, 18, Salisbury 1078-1217, ed. B. R. Kemp, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1999, no. 286

1997

Colin G. C. Tite, ' 'Lost or stolen or strayed': a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cotton library', in Sir Robert Cotton as collector: essays on an early Stuart courtier and his legacy, ed. C. J. Wright, London: British Library, 1997, pp. 262-306, at p. 273 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.

1996

R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson & A. G. Watson, eds., English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1996, B43.55 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R

1995

English Episcopal Acta, X. Bath and Wells 1061-1205, ed. Frances M. R. Ramsey, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1995, p. ix (listing only); nos. 113-34, 216-8, 220, 22-6, 229

James P. Carley & Julia Crick, 'Constructing Albion's past: an annotated edition of De origine gigantum' [first printed 1995], reprinted in Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian tradition, ed. James P. Carley (Arthurian Studies, 45), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001, pp. 347-418, at pp. 367, 373, 375, 383, 393, 395

1994

Della Hooke, Pre-Conquest charter-bounds of Devon and Cornwall, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, pp. 100, 115, 127, 147, 168

1993

Mirjam M. Foot, 'Medieval painted book edges' [written 1989 for Studies in Book Making and Conservation in Honour of Roger Powell, still (1993) announced as 'forthcoming'], reprinted in her Studies in the history of bookbinding [collected articles], Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993, pp. 439-54, at p. 446

Margaret Laing, Catalogue of sources for a linguistic atlas of early medieval English, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993, pp. 142-3

English Episcopal Acta, VIII: Winchester 1070-1204, ed. M. J. Franklin, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1993, nos. 42-6, 62

1992

Colin G. C. Tite, ' 'Lost or stolen or strayed': a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cotton Library', The British Library Journal, Vol. 18 No. 2 (Autumn 1992), pp. 107-47, p. 118

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 3
Summary Catalogue no.	8591
Summary of contents	Cartulary of Slapton chantry, Devon.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Devon
Date	14th century, late (after 1373)
Material	parchment
Decoration	Fine border, historiated and other initials. (P&A iii. 669, pl. LXIX)


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1198
Manuscript image	fol. 1r Pink initial V(ivinersis) and blue initial R(everendo), both with arms. Surround border in blue and pink bands with decorative sprays of leaves on gold ground.

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 4
Summary Catalogue no.	8592
Composite	two parts
Summary of contents	Constitutions of Lanfranc. \|\| Innocent III, De officio misse; sermon (attrib.).
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	c. 1200 \|\| 13th century, middle
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1198
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1199

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 5
Summary Catalogue no.	8593
Summary of contents	Register of Malmesbury abbey, Wiltshire. Etc.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Wiltshire Malmesbury
Date	13th century, first half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1199


Bibliography
1998

David Bates, ed., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: the Acta of William I(1066-1087), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, nos. 193, 194, 195

1996

R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson & A. G. Watson, eds., English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1996, B54.12 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R

1993

Margaret Laing, Catalogue of sources for a linguistic atlas of early medieval English, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993, p. 143

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 6
Summary Catalogue no.	8594
Summary of contents	Cartulary of the manor of 'Acouere' (Okeover), Staffordshire.
Language	Latin and French
Origin	English
Date	14th century, second quarter
Material	parchment
Decoration


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1199

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 7
Summary Catalogue no.	8595
Summary of contents	Cartulary of lands in Leicestershire of Bartholomew Brokesby.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	1445
Material	parchment
Decoration	Good border, initials. Later drawing (scribble), fol. 187v. (P&A iii. 909)


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1199
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1200

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 8
Summary Catalogue no.	8596
Summary of contents	Brut Chronicle in the shorter French version to 1272.
Language	French
Origin	English
Date	14th century, middle
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1200


Bibliography
1999

Ruth J. Dean (with Maureen B. M. Boulton), Anglo-Norman literature: a guide to texts and manuscripts (Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, No. 3), London 1999, no. 36 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R.

1998

Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: the development of a Middle English Chronicle (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180), Tempe, AZ, 1998, pp. xix, 31 n., 32

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 9
Summary Catalogue no.	8597
Summary of contents	Statutes of the Cathedral Church of Exeter, 1268-1446, with numerous contemporary and later marginalia.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1200

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 10
Summary Catalogue no.	8598
Summary of contents	Cartulary of lands of the Knights Templars within the preceptory of Sandford, Oxfordshire.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, second half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1200
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1201


Bibliography
1999

English Episcopal Acta, 18, Salisbury 1078-1217, ed. B. R. Kemp, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1999, no. 242

English Episcopal Acta, 18: Salisbury 1078-1217, ed. B. R. Kemp, Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1999, no. 242

1993

English Episcopal Acta, VIII: Winchester 1070-1204, ed. M. J. Franklin, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1993, no. 247

1991

English Episcopal Acta, II, Canterbury 1162-1190, eds. C. R. Cheney & B. E. A. Jones, and III, Canterbury 1193-1205, eds. C. R. Cheney & E. John, corrected paperback edition, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1991, vol. II, no. 319; vol. III, no. 631

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 12
Summary Catalogue no.	8600
Summary of contents	Collection of forms similar in part to Registrum omnium breuium.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	16th century
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1201

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 13
Summary Catalogue no.	8601
Summary of contents	Alexander Nequam, Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, early
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1201

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 14
Summary Catalogue no.	8602
Summary of contents	Statutes of the Carthusian order (incomplete).
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1201

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 15
Summary Catalogue no.	8603
Summary of contents	Medicinal herbal arranged alphabetically ('Schola Salernitana'). Treatise on diseases of women. Dietary in verse.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Exeter
Date	before 1448
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1201
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1202

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 16
Summary Catalogue no.	8604
Summary of contents	Theological or mystical dictionary ('Mistica Hieronimi').
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	c. 1200
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1202

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 17
Summary Catalogue no.	8605
Summary of contents	Book of private devotions entitled 'Meditatyons for goostly exercyse, in the tyme of the masse'.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	16th century, early
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1202

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 18
Summary Catalogue no.	8606
Summary of contents	Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, late
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1202
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1203
Manuscript image	fol. flyleaf Ex libris inscriptions of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, 13th-14th centuries. 17th-century inscription of Anthony Wood.
Manuscript image	fol. 16v Text page with ink drawing of man pointing to marginal note of Clement Canterbury, late 15th century.


Bibliography
1999

George R. Keiser, 'Practical books for the gentleman', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. III, 1400-1557, eds. Lotte Hellinga & J. B. Trapp, Cambridge 1999, pp. 470-494, at pp. 477 and n. 24, 481 SCWMSS archive: = REFS. CXIII.16 [copy of this article only]

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 19
Summary Catalogue no.	8607
Summary of contents	Missal (incomplete). Use of Sarum.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, first half
Material	parchment
Decoration	Initials (defaced). (P&A iii. 967)


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Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 20
Summary Catalogue no.	8608
Summary of contents	Note-book of a York priest.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, North
Date	c. 1471-1472
Material	parchment, paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1203


Bibliography
1995

John B. Friedman, Northern English books, owners and makers in the late Middle Ages, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995, p. 152 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 21
Summary Catalogue no.	8609
Summary of contents	Records of the chapters-general of the Augustinian canons. Benedictine constitutions of 1339 for monasteries.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	after 1518
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1203
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1204

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 22
Summary Catalogue no.	8610
Summary of contents	Speculum juniorum.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century, middle
Material	parchment
Decoration	Good border, initial. (P&A iii. 645)


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1204

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 23
Summary Catalogue no.	8611
Summary of contents	Constitutions of Benedict XII and English provincial constitutions.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century, end
Material	parchment
Decoration	Good border, historiated initial. (P&A iii. 731)


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1204


Bibliography
1996

Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996, II, p. 35 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 24
Summary Catalogue no.	8612
Summary of contents	Augustine, De quantitate animae. Ambrose, De bono mortis; two sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, late
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1204
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1205


Bibliography
1999

Richard Gameson, The manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130), Oxford, etc.: OUP for The British Academy, 1999, p. 141 no. 761

Shelfmark	MS. Wood empt. 25
Summary Catalogue no.	8613
Summary of contents	Herbal. Notes on the treatment of fevers. Plague tract. Recipes. Description of months with foods proper for each.
Language	English and Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, late
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1205

Shelfmark	MS. Wood Rolls 1
Summary Catalogue no.	25227
Summary of contents	Uthredus de Boldon, monk of Durham, a defence of various articles by him denounced as heresy by the Franciscans in the 14th century.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	c. 1400
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 5, p. 92
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