Gospel of St. John, with interlinear and marginal glosses, De septem regulis Tyconii, On the three Maries — 12th century, middle; English

Title

Gospel of St. John, with interlinear and marginal glosses, De septem regulis Tyconii, On the three Maries — 12th century, middle; English

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 1

Place of origin

English

Date

12th century, middle

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 105 leaves (fo1s. i-ii, 1, 102-5 are flyleaves)

Decoration

Initials in green, red, and blue on fols. 2 and 4. ( Pächt and Alexander iii. 127)

Binding

Bound in russia by R. Riviereat Bath c. 1840, rebacked, with armorial bookstamp of Sir Edward Dering, bt., apparently cut from an older binding.

Acquisition

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Provenance

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul) : identified by Mr. N. R. Ker as no. 182 in the 15th-cent. catalogue pr. M. R. James, Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover, Cambridge, 1903, p. 207, from the 2º fo. detur, which does not occur as a word or part of a word in the Preface to John, but appears in our MS. because redderetur was miswritten red-detur. The correction to redderetur was made by the scribe but could easily be missed.

Sir Edward Dering, 1598-1644 (who had other MSS. from St Augustine's, e.g. BL Add. 46352 etc.) ( MLGB3)

Signature on front flyleaf of William Maskell (c. 1814-1890) .

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948 . Bought by Lyell in April 1940 from W. H. Robinson Ltd.; see their Cat. 71 (1940), no. 36.