Ps.-Hildegard of Bingen, Alexander de Villa Dei — 15th century, middle; English
MS. Bodl. 507
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ps.-Hildegard of Bingen, Alexander de Villa Dei — 15th century, middle; English
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 507
Associated place
Ullesthorpe
Bradwell
Place of origin
English
Date
15th century, middle
Language
Latin
Middle English (1100-1500)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
iii + 28 leaves
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
Drawings, fols. iiv, 27r.
Acquisition
Presented by him in 1612.
Provenance
Some short accounts of tithes at Bradwell (Bucks?) and Ullesthorpe (Leics.) are at foll. iiiv, 26v.
Canterbury, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine; notes made by the librarian, Clement Canterbury, fl. 1463–95 ('Clemens Cantirbury', fol. 1; see B. C. Barker-Benfield, 'Clement Canterbury, librarian of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury', Manuscripts at Oxford: an exhibition in memory of Richard William Hunt (Oxford, 1980), pp. 88–92).
John Twyne, -1581 (?): see A. G. Watson, 'John Twyne of Canterbury (d. 1581) as a Collector of Medieval Manuscripts: a Preliminary Investigation', The Library 6th ser. 8 (1986) 133–151 at 149–50 no. 23, on the evidence only of Thomas Twyne's later ownership.
Thomas Twyne
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