Life and Miracles of St Dunstan
MS. Rawl. D. 263
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Life and Miracles of St Dunstan
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. D. 263
Place of origin
English
Date
late 15th or early 16th century
Early 16th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment: fols. 1–16, 17–33, 25–81, 82–83 of different textures. Fols. 59–65 and 82–83, although in the second booklet, appear to have been made at the same time as fols. 1–33, since they use the same framing pattern.
Physical extent
i + 83 + i leaves
Binding
18th century, leather over pasteboard with stamped floral border
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
Provenance
James West: gave to Thomas Hearne on 1 January 1726. Inscribed, To Mr Thomas Hearne of Edmund Hall in Oxford. January 1st 1726 Felices multos tibi Juppiter augeat annos! Sic optat sic precatur. Vester. J.W.
Thomas Hearne. Inscribed, Suum cuique Tho: Hearne Febr. 7. 1726. Ex dono amici ornatissimi Jacobi West, A. M. e Coll. Ball.
Richard Rawlinson
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