Simon Boraston — 1361 × 1389 and 1407 × 1426; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey
MS. Bodl. 216
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Simon Boraston — 1361 × 1389 and 1407 × 1426; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 216
Place of origin
English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey
Date
1361 × 1389 and 1407 × 1426
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 153 fols.
Hands
Fols. 1–41v line 9 apparently written by John Brinkley or John Tymworth. The rest written by William Barrow (see Provenance).
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Binding
Pink whittawed leather over boards, 15th century, rebacked.
Acquisition
Acquired between 1613 and 1620 (Summary Catalogue I p. 102).
Provenance
Fol. i: Distinctiones fratris S. de Boraston’ usque ad literam .d. per J. abbatem sancti Edmundi [written later:] set perficiebantur usque in finem per fratrem Willelmum Barwe huius monasterii sacristani. Fols. 1–41v line 9 written under John Brinkley, abbot 1361–78, or John Tymworth, abbot 1379–89. William Barrow was sacrist 1407–26.
The first part of the inscription on fol. i and the Bury St Edmunds pressmark .B.46 are in the hand of Henry de Kirkstead, who probably died shortly after 1378.
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