Acts, with gloss, General Epistles, with gloss, Apocalypse, with gloss — 13th century, beginning; English
MS. Auct. D. 1. 12
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Description
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Title
Acts, with gloss, General Epistles, with gloss, Apocalypse, with gloss — 13th century, beginning; English
Shelfmark
MS. Auct. D. 1. 12
Place of origin
English
Date
13th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 137 leaves
Decoration
Good border.
Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 333, pl. XXVII)
Binding
Original boards and sewing; later white leather (about 1602?). Worn and repaired.
Acquisition
Presented in 1602 by the dean and chapter of Exeter; though not recorded in the Benefactors' Register, is in similar binding to the rest of the Exeter books.
Provenance
Hugh, archdeacon of Taunton (d. after 1236).
Given by him to Exeter Cathedral. Langbaine (MS. Langb. 5, p. 353.) gives an inscription now lost: "Hunc librum deo et ecclesie Petri Exon: dedit Hugo archidiaconus Taunton, ut usus eius pauperum, proprietas ipsius sit ecclesie". (MLGB3). Identifiable in the catalogues of 1327 (?) and 1506 (MLGB3; Oliver's Bishops of Exeter (1861), pp. 308, 373).
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