Augustine — Multiple dates; Multiple places of origin

Title

Augustine — Multiple dates; Multiple places of origin

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 691

Place of origin

France, Normandy (main manuscript)

England (added decoration)

Date

14th century, middle (added decoration)

11th century, end – 12th century, beginning (main manuscript)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

xii + 246leaves

Decoration

Fine initials, fols 72v , 84v, and 92v were added to a manuscript produced in France (late 11th century- early 12th century) by an illuminator in England the middle of the 14th century

A considerable number of the 14th-century capitals contain miniatures (by at least two artists). The most detailed of these is on fol. 1v, offering a representation of the redeemed in Paradise under the outstretched arms of a female figure, the Church, with Christ above and angels round (Summary Catalogue)

Other initials added in the middle of the 14th century in England are lacertine grotesques and the like, in a peculiar style, see fols 1r, 32v, 84v , 118v, 148v, 181v, etc. (Summary Catalogue)

Binding

Stamped white sheepskin (c. 1602) on older sewing and boards, worn and mended

Acquisition

Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602

Provenance

Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: "Liber Ecclesie Exoniensis" (s. xiv) ( MLGB3)

Notes added by John Grandison, Bishop of Exeter 1327–1369, apparently after the completion of the illumination ( Pächt and Alexander iii. 639, pl. LXIV)