Anselm of Laon — 12th century, middle; England, Bury St. Edmunds
MS. Bodl. 737
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Anselm of Laon — 12th century, middle; England, Bury St. Edmunds
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 737
Place of origin
England, Bury St. Edmunds
Date
12th century, middle
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 230 leaves
Decoration
Good initial
Many coloured capitals
Binding
White leather on boards, with tabs, clasps etc. lost, worn (English late 13th century work?)
Acquisition
It appears to have been first referenced in the Bodleian c. 1613
Provenance
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi . . . B.232.' (see M. R. James On the Abbey of S. Edmund [1904], p. 16, no. 150)
'Hic liber est Sancti Eadmundi' altered from 'de Sancto Edmundo' (late 13th century)
For details of the medieval catalogue, see B13.226 in Benedictines: The Shorter Catalogues: Bury: Catalogue, late 12th cent., and additions
Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 66, of the gift of William Smart of Ipswich (no. 150 in the list in James's Ecloga; M. R. James On the Abbey of S. Edmund (1904), p. 50, no. 66) (MLGB3)
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