Ambrose — 13th century, beginning; English
MS. Bodl. 700
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ambrose — 13th century, beginning; English
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 700
Place of origin
English
Date
13th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Fine and good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 313)
Binding
White sheepskin cover over boards, clasps lost, 15th cent. work.
Acquisition
Acquired by 1655.
Provenance
Eynsham, Oxfordshire, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, St Benedict and All Saints (?) : 'C. XV' in red, middle top of fol. 1r, apparently in the same hand as in Laud lat. 31. (MLGB3: inferred evidence). Later at Merton College (below).
'Liber magistri Johannis Tailour sacre theologie professoris Cancellarii Exoniensis ecclesie'; on Tailour (d. 1492), see BRUO, 1850-51; given by him to Richard FitzJames (below). (MLGB3)
Oxford, Merton College: 'Ex dono domini Ricardi FitzJames nuper Cicestrensis episcopi et Custodis istius collegii [sc. Merton]' (fol. iii verso).
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