Epistolæ Thomæ [à Becket] Cantuariensis nondum impressæ
MS. Bodl. 278
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Epistolæ Thomæ [à Becket] Cantuariensis nondum impressæ
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 278
Summary
'Epistolæ Thomæ [à Becket] Cantuariensis nondum impressæ', about 250 in number. They were copied 'e M.S. exemplari Richardi Henbrugg' [the last two words erased and the last very doubtful: for the two names are substituted 'H.R.']. At fol. 110 four documents are transcribed:
A letter from Henry ii to the English Church about the double papacy, 1159;
A letter from the same to the abbot of Citeaux, about 1165;
The will of st. Richard de Wyche, bp. of Chichester (d. 1253: from 'lib. E. fol. 165', a Canterbury archbishop's register?);
A notification by John Peckham, archbp. of Canterbury, June 8, 1288, of a bull of pope Alexander iv, Apr. 1, 1257, about attacks on the Franciscans and Dominicans (from the same register, 'pag. 231').
Date
written in the first half of the 17th century
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
117 Leaves
Acquisition
Acquired by The Bodleian Library in 1698.
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Collection contents
Manuscripts collected the Rev. Henry Jones
Epistolæ Thomæ [à Becket] Cantuariensis nondum impressæ
