Jean de la Rochelle — 13th century, late; English, Bury St Edmunds (?), Benedictine abbey (?)
MS. Bodl. 412
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Jean de la Rochelle — 13th century, late; English, Bury St Edmunds (?), Benedictine abbey (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 412
Place of origin
English, Bury St Edmunds (?), Benedictine abbey (?)
Date
13th century, late
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii + 258 leaves
Hands
Antonia Gransden has identified the scribe of this manuscript in six other manuscripts from Bury St Edmunds and suggested that he was a monk of the abbey: A. Gransden, A history of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1257–1301 : Simon of Luton and John of Northwold (2015), p. 283.
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Binding
Red leather on boards, clasps etc. lost, injured, 14th cent. English work.
Acquisition
It was probably received by the Bodleian in 1613–20.
Provenance
Bury St Edmunds, Benedictine abbey: ex libris and pressmark, 'Postilla super Lucam: Sancti Edmundi . B. 252,' 14th cent.
Perhaps to be identified with a manuscript formerly at Pembroke College, Cambridge, listed in Thomas James, Ecloga, no. 156 ('Postilla super Lucam. Habentes pontificem'), and therefore one of the Bury manuscripts given to Pembroke by William Smart of Ipswich (Summary Catalogue; M. R. James, The abbey of S. Edmund at Bury (1895), pp. 11, 16) .
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