Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury (?), Ps.-Augustine, Martin of Braga — 12th century, second quarter; English, Winchcombe Abbey

Title

Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury (?), Ps.-Augustine, Martin of Braga — 12th century, second quarter; English, Winchcombe Abbey

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. d. 46

Place of origin

English, Winchcombe Abbey

Date

12th century, second quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

103

Hands

Apparently by a single Winchcombe scribe throughout

Binding

Contemporary binding. Sewn on three split tawed leather thongs, which enter the bevelled wood boards through their outer face, run along channels in their inner face, and are attached with wood pegs; the boards covered with rough white leather, with a single clasp, closing from fron to lower cover; the lower cover with a rectangular parchment title-piece, attached with nine nails under a sheet of translucent horn (somewhat damaged), inscribed in neat gothic script 'In hoc volumine continentur multa par|va opera sancti augustini quod quidem volu|men pertinet ad wincelcombense | monasterium'; a rectangular recess with nail-hole near the bottom of the fore-edge on the inner face of the upper board, may be evidence of a chain-staple, or of re-use of the board. Boxed.

Provenance

Written at Winchcombe Abbey, with an ex-libris inscription

Cope family, Bramshill, Hants., by 1772 (listed in the library catalogue, Bodleian, MS. Eng. misc. c. 307, page 150, item 7)

Sir Anthony Cope, Bt., his sale, Sotheby's 4 March 1913, lot 9, bought by Leighton for £7 5s.

Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth (1870–1937)

Harmsworth Trust sale at Sotheby's, 15 Oct. 1945, lot 1895, bought by Maggs for £360

Mrs. J. H. Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire

Given to the Gloucester Diocesan Trust, and sold for their benefit at Sotheby's 11 Dec. 1979, lot 46, bought by Quaritch for the Bodleian.