Bede, Rabanus Maurus — c. 1200; English
MS. Bodl. 729
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bede, Rabanus Maurus — c. 1200; English
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 729
Place of origin
English
Date
c. 1200
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Penwork.
Binding
White leather on boards, covering an older white leather cover, clasps lost, English 15th cent. work.
Acquisition
Presented by the Dean and Canons of Windsor, 1612.
Provenance
Missenden, Buckinghamshire, Augustinian (Arrouaisian) priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber sancte Marie de Messendene ex dono Alardi [de Burham] decani Londoniensis." (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
"Ex dono illustrissimi Regis Edwardi IIIIti " (to Windsor). (MLGB3)
Windsor, collegiate chapel. Inscription "Beda super lucam et Marcum Cum Rabano/ super Matheum 2o fo mmonius quidam alex/ Ex dono Illustrissimi regis Edwardi IIIIti ", 2o folio in red; on label under horn secured by 6 nails, centre of outside of end cover. Medieval binding. Usual chain mark. (MLGB3: inferred evidence)
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