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John of Tynemouth, Augustine, Innocent IV, Patrick of Dublin, Alexander IV, John XXII — 1377; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey

MS. Bodl. 240

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Title

John of Tynemouth, Augustine, Innocent IV, Patrick of Dublin, Alexander IV, John XXII — 1377; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 240

Place of origin

English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey

Date

1377

Language

Latin

Contents

(pp. xli–xliii) Prayers, etc.
1. (pp. 1–582) John of Tynemouth Historia aurea
2. (pp. 582b–902) ‘A miscellany of lives of Saints, local documents and even poetry’, including:
John of Tynemouth Martyrologium
John of Tynemouth Sanctilogium
(p. 582) Rubric: De fortuna Anglie
(p. 582) Rubric: Conclusio Mortis pro omni genere hominum dicens Vado mori
(p. 602) Verses on Ramsey Abbey
(p. 624) Rubric: Vita et passio cum miraculis sancti Edmundi regis et martiris
(p. 723) Augustine Sermons
(p. 762) Innocent IV Moralitas de scaccario
(p. 765) Treatise on monastic discipline
(p. 811) Patrick of Dublin De tribus habitaculis animae
(p. 848) Document relating to the sermon of Nicholas de Hereford at St Frideswide’s cemetery, Oxford, 15 May 1382.
(p. 851) Alexander IV Bull about the friars, 30 March 1257.
(p. 855) John XXII Bull condemning Johannes de Polliaco, 1321.
(p. 856) Speculum humanae saluationis
(p. 894) Treatise on music

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

xliv + 900 + ii pages

Hands

Several hands.

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 670)

Coloured initials, rubrics.

Binding

Stamped brown leather on boards, Oxford work by G. K. about 1610.

Acquisition

Acquired between 1605 and 1611, probably in 1607.

Provenance

p. xli: Liber monachorum sancti edmundi in quo continetur: Secunda pars historie auree quam scribi fecit dompnus Rogerus de huntedon’ sumptibus graciarum suarum Anno domini Mº.CCCº.lxxvijº.

Bury St Edmunds pressmark, p. xli, H. 55.

Sir John Prise (1502?-1555): annotated by him.

His son, Richard Prise (Ker, ‘Sir John Prise’, p. 22, citing a note in Cambridge, Corpus Christ College, MS. 5).

Thomas Prise (probably grandson of Sir John, son of his son Gregory: Ker, ‘Sir John Prise’, p. 22): ‘Thomas Price possidet’, p. xli (16th century, second half).

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  • Hereford, Nicholas, 1345?-after 1417

  • Alexander, IV, Pope, -1261

  • Prise, Thomas, fl. 1614

  • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

  • Patrick, Bishop of Dublin

  • Price, John, Sir, 1502?-1555

  • Prise, Richard, 1537-

  • Johannes, Tinmouthensis, -1370

  • Innocent, IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254

  • John XXII, Pope, -1334

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