John of Worcester — Multiple dates; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey

Title

John of Worcester — Multiple dates; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 297

Place of origin

English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey

Date

additions, early 13th century

1133 × 1143 (?)

Language

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

426 pages

Hands

Two main scribes (pp. 1–344, pp. 345–423a), with marginal and interlinear additions by several others (Darlington and McGurk, II, p. lii).

Decoration

Fine miniature (unfinished drawing, retouched: Crucifixion, p. 71).

Good initials. (

Coloured initials, rubrics.

Binding

Oxford, late 16th or early 17th century (D. Pearson, Oxford Bookbinding 1500–1640) (2000), centrepiece xiv, pp. 78 and 111), rebacked.

Acquisition

Given to the Bodleian by George Broome, esq. of Holton (p. i), probably in 1608.

Provenance

Written at Bury St. Edmunds, as evidenced by the interpolations and additions, probably between 1133 and 1143 (Darlington and McGurk, II, p. liii).

Bury St. Edmunds ex libris, 12th century, p. 1: Liber Sancti Ædmundi regis et martyris .

Bury St. Edmunds pressmark, 14th century, second half, p. 1: C. 53

Marginalia by Sir John Prise, 1502?-1555.