Richard Rolle — 14th century, end; English, Bristol (?)
MS. Bodl. 953
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Richard Rolle — 14th century, end; English, Bristol (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 953
Place of origin
English, Bristol (?)
Date
14th century, end
Language
Middle English (1100-1500)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good border, historiated initials (partly defaced). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 701, pl. LXX-LXXI)
Binding
Stamped brown leather on boards, with gilt ornaments and edges, gilt clasp-fittings (one missing) bearing the arms of the University of Oxford, and gilt clasp inscribed 'liber bibliothe . ACADEMIAE OXŌN.', early 17th cent. London work by John Norton. one clasp lost.
Provenance
Bristol, Gloucestershire, Hospital of St Mary Magdalen: The manuscript is illuminated with the arms and inscription of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, who bequeathed it to the hospital (Register Chichele I, fol. 306v); N. L. Ramsay and J. M. W. Willoughby, Hospitals, Towns, and the Professions, CBMLC 14 (2009), SH7. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).
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