John of Salisbury — c. 1200; English
MS. Barlow 48
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
John of Salisbury — c. 1200; English
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 48
Date
c. 1200
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good initials, partly mutilated. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 288)
Binding
White parchment on bevelled boards, 15th-cent. English work.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Provenance
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber ecclesie sancte Marie de Cyrencestria" (c. 1300). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
(lower pastedown) "Robert ap Powell ap Rychard Llewellyn or Ploythe Lantowny in comitatu Herford'" (s. xvii). (MLGB3)
Apparently copied from S.C. 6418 (see Malmesbury). Title and note on fol. 1r probably in hand of Sir John Prise. (MLGB3)
Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691
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Title
The Policraticus of John of Salisbury
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 48
Summary
The Policraticus of John of Salisbury, apparently copied at Cirencester from MS. Barlow 6 (q.v.), soon after 1200. This MS., which was used for the Oxford edition of the Policraticus by C. C. J. Webb in 1909 (vol. i, p. xv), once contained the Opusculum Probae printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. tom. xix. coll. 801 et seq., according to an inscription of about 1300 on fol. i: 'Liber ecclesie sancte Marie de Cyrencestria. Hec continents in isto volumine. Policraticus Johannis Sar. diuisus in viii libros. Item explanacio quorundam verborum extraneorum. Item opusculum Probe vxoris Adelphi ad testimonium et noui testamenti versifice compositum.'
Date
Written about A.D. 1200 in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, in double columns. Binding, white parchment on bevelled boards, 15th-cent. English work, illuminated
Physical extent
144 Leaves
Custodial history
Though at Cirencester about 1300 (see above) this MS. was at Llanthony in Monmouthshire in the 17th cent.: 'Robert ap Powell ap Rychard ap Llewellyn of Ploythe Lantowny in comitatu Herford' (inner back cover).
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Collection contents
The Policraticus of John of Salisbury
