Bede — Multiple dates; Multiple places of origin
MS. Bodl. 218
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bede — Multiple dates; Multiple places of origin
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 218
Place of origin
England (added drawings)
France, Tours
Date
9th century, beginning (main ms.)
c. 1000 (added drawings)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 167 folios
Hands
Carolingian minuscule.
Insular corrections and additions.
Decoration
Marginal drawings in pen and with a pencil (partly erased) added c. 1000 to a Tours manuscript of the beginning of the 9th century
Musical notation
Adiastematic and half diastematic Canterbury neums, fol. 165v
Binding
Black velvet with brass clasp-fittings (clasps and side-bosses gone); title label on parchment on the front cover. For comparable bindings, see: MS. Bodl. 209; MS. Bodl. 245; MS. Bodl. 331; MS. Bodl. 411; MS. Bodl. 419; MS. Bodl. 458
Acquisition
Presented by Charles Howard in 1604
Provenance
Corrections and additions in English hands, 9th and 11th centuries.
Royal binding for Henry VIII
Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham (d. 1624): possibly confiscated by his father, William Howard (d. 1573), from Thomas Copley (1532–84) of Gatton, Surrey, and perhaps obtained by Copley from the royal library at Nonsuch (Carley in Books and Collectors 1200–1700 (1997)).
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