Boethius — 12th century, first half; English
MS. Savile 20
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Description
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Title
Boethius — 12th century, first half; English
Shelfmark
MS. Savile 20
Date
12th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good diagrams.
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 122)
Binding
White leather on bevelled boards with two brass clasps.
Provenance
Doncaster, Yorkshire, Franciscan convent: "Iste liber pertinet fratribus minoribus Doncastrie" (on pastedown), s. xv. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Anthony Morton (s. xvi). Given to Dr John Dee by Christopher Saxton, 1597. Roger Beston (s. xvi). (MLGB3)
Medieval binding. (MLGB3)
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Title
The Arithmetic of Boethius
Shelfmark
MS. Savile 20
Summary
The Arithmetic of Boethius, as in Migne, Patr. Lat., tom. lxiii, col. 1079, beg. 'In dandis accipiendisque muneribus'. On the inner covers are pasted two leaves from a 13th-cent. Latin bible (Zach. v. 8-Agg. ii. 8). A hand of the later 13th cent. has added a table of chapters to the first book (fol. 2).
Date
Written in the 12th century in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, binding, white leather on bevelled boards with two brass clasps
Physical extent
64 Leaves
Custodial history
This volume belonged, as MSS. Savile 14, 18-19, to the Franciscans of Doncaster: 'Iste liber pertinet fratribus minoribus Doncastrie' (inner front cover, late 14th cent.). In the late 16th cent. it was in the possession of Anthony Morton (ib., and fols. 18v, 29). A partially erased inscription on fol. 1 reads '... [Joannis Dee de dono] Christophori Saxton [Chronographi Angliae] A° 1597. Martij 13° ... Manecestriae: in Com. Lancastriae'. Somewhat later it was owned by Roger Burton (fol. 1).
Labelled '20'
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Collection contents
The Arithmetic of Boethius
