Robert Grosseteste — 15th century; English

Title

Robert Grosseteste — 15th century; English

Register of documents relating to the manor of Faringdon in Berkshire. — c. 1300 (?) (after 1275; Hockey, p. 8)); English

Cartulary of the college of Holy Trinity, Pontefract — c. 1500; English

Shelfmark

MS. Barlow 49

Associated place

Faringdon

Date

c. 1500

15th century

c. 1300 (?) (after 1275; Hockey, p. 8))

Language

Latin

Contents

Binding

Brown leather, gold-tooled, on boards, with the arms of sir Robert Cotton on the outer front cover.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691

Provenance

? no. 110 in John Dee's catalogue: note that Dee's ladder mark is on fol. 1r of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 145. Robert Cotton (fol. 4r). Dr John Prideaux. (MLGB3).

Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691

Title

Collection of three Latin manuscripts

Shelfmark

MS. Barlow 49

Summary

A. 15th cent. (fol. 1). The constitutions attributed to Robert Grossetete, bishop of Lincoln, as in the Epistolae, ed. Luard (Rolls Series), pp. 164-6, followed by Grossetête's letters, here 129 in number, with marginal references added about 1700 to Edward Brown's selection published in 1690.

B. About 1300 (fol. 58). A register of documents relating to the manor of Faringdon in Berkshire, a grange of the Cistercian abbey of Beaulieu in Hampshire, comprising:

Fol. 58. notes of the assessment of the temporalities and spiritualities at Faringdon

Fol. 59. rules made about 1275 at Beaulieu for drawing up monastic accounts, followed by accounts and custumals of Faringdon (manor and borough) and its members, as specified in the Old Catalogue, with records, in a slightly later hand, of litigation concerning Faringdon

Much of this material (but not the regule compoti) occurs also in the 13th century register in the British Museum (Cott. MS. Nero. A. xii).

C. About 1500 (fol. 115). A cartulary of the college of Holy Trinity, Pontefract.

Date

Made up of three MSS. written (A) in the 15th century, (B) about 1300, and (C) about 1500, in England

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, of which fols. 4-56v are in double columns. Binding, brown leather, gold-tooled, on boards, with the arms of Sir Robert Cotton on the outer front cover

Physical extent

168 Leaves

Custodial history

This item was Misprinted as 6375 in the Old Catalogue.

Wood (Life and Times, ed. Clark, ii. 174, n. 10) says of section A, 'The said epistles were once in Cotton's library [his signature is on fol. 4], but dr. John Prideaux borrowing them from Sir Thomas Cotton, never restored them. So that after his death they came into the hands of dr. [Thomas] Barlow of Queen's College ... who bought them at Worcester.' It is perhaps no. 110 in dr. John Dee's catalogue.