Indented agreement between Edmund Audley, bishop of Salisbury, and Thomas Drax, rectorand the fellows of the college of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Oxford [ Lincoln College]. — c. 1518; English
MS. Barlow 50
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Description
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Title
Indented agreement between Edmund Audley, bishop of Salisbury, and Thomas Drax, rectorand the fellows of the college of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Oxford [ Lincoln College]. — c. 1518; English
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 50
Date
c. 1518
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Binding
Wooden boards backed with vellum, indented along top edge.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Provenance
Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691
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Title
Indented agreement between Edmund Audley, bishop of Salisbury, and Thomas Drax
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 50
Summary
Indented agreement between Edmund Audley, bishop of Salisbury, and Thomas Drax, rector, and the fellows of the college of the Blessed Mary and All Saints [i.e. Lincoln college], Oxford, witnessing that the college, within six years from date, will pay annually £18 from the money (£400) which they have received (June 8, 1518) of the gift of the said bishop to buy lands 'ad emendum pannum competentem pro togis' (fol. 1v), by the hand of mr. Henry Rawlyns, in return for celebrating the bishop's obit. fols. 9-end are blank parchment.
Date
Written in or about 1318 in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment; two seals (one missing) attached by plaited cords of green, red, and yellow silk; remains of two brass clasps, contemporary English work binding, wooden boards backed with vellum, indented along top edge
Physical extent
34 Leaves
Custodial history
A note on fol. 1 by Anthony à Wood that 'this book did without doubt belong once to Lyncolne college in Oxford', has been amplified by Barlow: 'or to the bishop of Sarum or the university chest ...'.
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Collection contents
Indented agreement between Edmund Audley, bishop of Salisbury, and Thomas Drax
