Ps.-Apuleius, Ps.-Dioscorides — 11th century, end; England, Bury St. Edmunds
MS. Bodl. 130
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Description
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Title
Ps.-Apuleius, Ps.-Dioscorides — 11th century, end; England, Bury St. Edmunds
Sextus Placitus — 11th century, end; England, Bury St. Edmunds
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 130
Place of origin
England, Bury St. Edmunds
Date
11th century, end
Language
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Latin
Contents
Decoration
Fine miniatures (partly coloured drawings, partly painted). Partly copying an early English model of 10th century, end. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 53, pl. VI)
Provenance
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Herbarium diascorid' de armario monachorum sancti Edmundi. M.44' (top fol. 1r, mostly erased, s. xiv). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
'Liber Aug. Stywardi ex dono Tho: Knyvett Armigeri' (s. xvi) Thomas Knyvett [Knyvet] , Baron Knyvett (1545/6–1622), courtier Edward Tyson (1651–1708), physician and anatomist, 1706 (MLGB3)
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