Magna tabula Glastoniensis — 14th century, late; English, Glastonbury
MS. Lat. hist. a. 2
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Description
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Title
Magna tabula Glastoniensis — 14th century, late; English, Glastonbury
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. hist. a. 2
Associated place
Glastonbury
Place of origin
English, Glastonbury
Date
14th century, late
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
tablet
Support
parchment
Physical extent
six leaves pasted on to the inside of a folding wooden frame and two wooden leaves, probably modern Each leaf made up of two pieces of parchment of length 700–710 and 300–320 mm. respectively.
Decoration
Partial borders; that on the last leaf having an animal design.
Large blue initials with red flourishes; small plain and flourished blue initials.
Plain red initials.
Acquisition
Sotheby's, 28 Oct. 1947, lot 524. Bought.
Provenance
Glastonbury, Somerset, Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: Provenance inferred from contents: the contents are historical collectanea relating to Glastonbury, derived almost entirely from John of Glastonbury. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
A "tabula" consisting of six large sheets of parchment pasted to wooden boards which swing on hinges attached to a wall. Described with facs. by J. A. Bennett, Somerset Arch. Soc. Proc. 34 (1889) pp. 117–29; J. A. Robinson, Two Glastonbury Legends (Cambridge 1926), pp. 41f. (MLGB3)
Lord William Howard (d. 1640) of Naworth castle : seen there by Ussher, Antiquitates (Works, ed. Elrington, V.30)
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