Valerius Maximus, John Whethamstede — 15th century, second quarter (1420 × 1440); English, St. Albans(?)
MS. Auct. F. inf. 1. 1
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Description
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Title
Valerius Maximus, John Whethamstede — 15th century, second quarter (1420 × 1440); English, St. Albans(?)
Shelfmark
MS. Auct. F. inf. 1. 1
Place of origin
English, St. Albans(?)
Date
15th century, second quarter (1420 × 1440)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 185 fols.
Hands
Humanistic script.
Decoration
Fine borders.
Fine initials.
Fine penwork borders, initials. ()
Arms of St Albans, Tynemouth priory, England, and Humfrey duke of Gloucester, fol. 1.
Rubrics.
Binding
Stamped leather on boards, re-backed but with the old back inserted, clasps lost; Oxford, early 17th century.
Acquisition
Acquired by 1602.
Provenance
Made for John Whethamstede, abbot of St Albans: lambs and eagles in the borders representing his namesakes, St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist. The second volume of a set of two (‘Valerii Glossati in duobus voluminibus’) commissioned by him in the period of his first abbacy (1420–40): Annales Monasterii S. Albani a Johanne Amundesham...conscripti, ed. H. T. Riley (1871), II, p. 268.
Presented by him to the library of St Albans Abbey (inscription, fol. 168v).
Later given by him to Gloucester College, Oxford (inscription, fol. 168v).
Fol. 3v: Magister J Warter , perhaps John Warder of St Albans Abbey and Gloucester College (Emden, BRUO ).
fol. 149: Robert Foster , 16th century.
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