Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from known sources, 1933–65 and n.d. (the quotations of soucres below are from notes in Ker's hand). 68 leaves (fol. 67 arrived in two parts).

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Title

Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from known sources, 1933–65 and n.d. (the quotations of soucres below are from notes in Ker's hand). 68 leaves (fol. 67 arrived in two parts).

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. b. 25

Associated place

Dublin

Evercreech

Place of origin

French (in part)

English

Date

late 12th to early 14th century

1345

13th century – 17th century

1728 (3 May)

14th century – 15th century

14th century – 18th century

12th century, second half – 13th century

Language

Undetermined

English

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin

MS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 1

(fol. 1) Document with a printed border and initial containing a portrait of George II, 3 June 1728, seal missing

MS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 2

(fols. 2–4) Grant of lands at Evercreech, Somerset, by Avicia de Stawell to Geoffrey de Stawell , 1345

MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 3

(fols. 5–13) ‘Fragments given to N. R. K. by Frederic S. Ferguson … in 1954’, with a list of eight items (two now missing) : mainly whole leaves, at least some recovered from bindings, of five Latin manuscripts, late 12th- to early 14th-century, including:

(fol. 6) Thomas Aquinas Commentary on Aristotle, Ethics

(fols. 7–8) Gregory IX Decretals

(fols. 9–11) Proverbs with gloss

MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 4

(fols. 14–25) ‘Small scraps from 1955’, fragments of negligible size perhaps all retrieved from one binding, from four Latin manuscripts, 14th-to 15th-century, and (fol. 25) from one 15th-cent. document in French

MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 5

(fols. 26–50) ‘Part[s] of lot 22 in Phillipps sale [Sotheby's] 22 June 1965’

(fols. 26–41) Phillipps MS. 30449, four damaged bifolia containing part of I Maccabees with apparatus taken from the commentary of Rabanus Maurus (Stegműller no. 7058) and two smaller fragments from the same glossed manuscript, one from II Chronicles, early 13th-cent., with modern notes

(fols. 42–6) Peter Lombard Commentary on the Pauline Epistles

(fol. 48, binding fragment) Gratian Decretum

(fols. 49–50, binding fragment) Peter Lombard Sentences

MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 6

(fols. 51–7) ‘Scraps./from Maltby [the Oxford bookbinding firm] / All he had but one or/two which I gave to/Bodley […] fr. of Arator’ [the Arator is MS. Lat. misc. b. 12, fols. 97–9, given 1950] :

(fols. 52–3) Binding strips of negligible width from two Latin manuscripts of the 14th and 15th centuries

(fols. 54–6) Binding scraps from two Latin and (fol. 54) one French documentary sources of the 16th or 17th century

(fol. 57) Document of Queen Anne's reign, concerning Dublin

MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 7

(fols. 58–68) Binding fragments ‘From Mr. Molloy’:

(fols. 59–66) Smallish scraps from six Latin manuscripts, 13th- to 15th-cent., including (fols. 59–60) a verse text, 2nd half of the 13th century, and (fol. 61) an index or concordance, 13th cent.

(fol. 67a–b) Two adjoining fragments of a document in French, later 16th cent.(?)

(fol. 68) Thin strip from an account in English, 17th cent.

Acquisition

Handed on by Prof. A. G. Watson, Dr. Ker's literary executor, in accordance with Dr. Ker's wishes, 1984

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