Kings and Chronicles, with prologue and Glossa ordinaria — 13th century, middle; English (?)

Title

Kings and Chronicles, with prologue and Glossa ordinaria — 13th century, middle; English (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. b. 6

Place of origin

English (?)

Date

13th century, middle

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

iv (paper) + 218 + ii (paper); fols. 141–142 are loosely inserted strips.

Hands

Good gothic bookhands, the main text about twice as large as the gloss

Binding

Sewn on five cords and 'BOUND BY RAMAGE LONDON' after 1843 (see M. Packer, Bookbinders of Victorian London (1991), 123) in purple leather over pasteboards, the covered framed with blind-tooled ornament; the spne lettered in gilt 'LATIN | MANUSCRIPT | OF THE | SACRED | SCRIPTURES.', and '13THCENTURY.' at the foot; marbled endpapers; copper-stains and holes in fol. 215–216 perhaps indicate the placement of two pins from a pair of early strap-and-pin fastenings

Provenance

Rev. Allan Sinclair, presented to John Campbell, Lord Breadalbane (d. 1862), 27 May 1860, with his letter of presentation glued to fol. iv recto

Rt. Hon. Algernon William Stephen, 5th Earl Temple; sold by his executors at Sotheby's, 16 June 1941, lot 131

Maggs Bros., with their acquisition note 'S[otheby's]/6/[194]1' and price-code in pencil on fol. 218r

J. P. R. Lyell, with his acquisition note in pencil on fol. iv'M[aggs] | 23.8.'41 | E.V.X.V.', and his gilt green leather booklabel on the upper pastedown

Bequeathed to N. R. Ker (see Lyell Cat., p. xxvii), and given by him in 1975. Formerly Dep. b. 153.