Jerome — 12th century, late; English

Title

Jerome — 12th century, late; English

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 2

Place of origin

English

Date

12th century, late

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

161 leaves (fol. 1, 161 are modern flyleaves)

Decoration

Initials in red and green, with some yellow wash, blue is used in addition on fol. 2, 14v, 108v. Headings mostly in red only, but occasionally in red and green. ( Pächt and Alexander iii. 223)

Binding

Well preserved in spite of some slight repairs. Contemporary Northern English work: original sewing on five bands, the top and bottom bands forming the head and tail bands: no kettle stitch: the bands are threaded into holes in the thickness of the slightly bevelled oak boards: cover of white skin: flat spine, mended at the top and the protruding tab missing: the tab at the tail of the spine survives. On the upper cover are a fluted metal centre pin and four bosses, shaped like woolpacks, mounted on pads of hide with the hair still on it. There were once two strap-and-pin fastenings on the lower cover, and at the bottom there are six nail marks, perhaps for a label. There are also nail marks at the four corners of the lower cover, perhaps for bosses, but these must have been of a different shape from the bosses on the upper cover.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Holme Cultram, Cumberland, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin : "Liber sancte Marie de holmo" (foot of fol. 2), 13th-14th cent; "liber LXXVIIIus secunda pars" (top of fol. 2), 14th cent.?.

Acquired c. 1824 by Sir Henry Lawson of Brough Hall, who gave it to:

Revd. Dr. Scott, vicar of Catterick, Yorks.

Later belonged to the Marquess of Ripon at Studley Royal, Yorkshire; see Hist. MSS. Comm., Sixth Report, 1877, p. 249.

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948 : bought by Lyell in June 1943 from Davis and Orioli.