Ralph of Flaix — 12th century; English

Title

Ralph of Flaix — 12th century; English

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. c. 28

Associated place

Otley

Glemsford

Place of origin

English

Date

12th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

150 leaves

Decoration

Plain red, green and blue initials.

Binding

17th-cent. vellum binding.

Provenance

Edmunds Felton hunc possidet librum (fol.24), 16th cent.; the names of Edmund and George Felton are written in the margins at fol.24, 35v, 44v, etc. They can be identified as Edmund (d.1542) and his son, George, of Pentlow, Essex (Proc. Suffolk Inst. of Archaol. iv.53).

On fol.21 (erased) is: ‘Thys byll made the seconde daye of September in the yere of our lorde cccccxlv that I Thomas ...... tayler of Cavindyshe in the counte of Suffoke have resevyd of John Geffray in the counte of the said’, and on fol.82v, ‘Thomas Sewell of .... saye yn the counte of Suffok hathe reseavyd of John Cark of Stradsell yn the conte of the same xs ..... whete the pryse vi li. and a marke sterlinge’. A John Geffery and a Thomas Sewell appear in the Subsidy return of 1524 (Suffolk Green Books X, 1910) at Glemsford and Otley. These places, and Straddishall and Cavendish and Pentlow, are not far from Bury St. Edmunds.

Rt. Hon. Lord Tollemache, Helmingham Hall, Suffolk (with shelfmark-label), his sale at Sotheby's 14 June 1965, lot 6, bought by Quaritch for £260.

Given by N. R. Ker, 1965.