Augustine — Multiple dates; English, Reading, abbey
MS. Bodl. 257
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Augustine — Multiple dates; English, Reading, abbey
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 257
Place of origin
English, Reading, abbey
Date
12th century, middle
13th century, late
added decoration, 15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 195 leaves
Decoration
One fine, many good initials. Cf. other contemporary Reading manuscripts.
Good sketches added, fols. 141v, 172–173 etc., 15th century, third quarter, in Flemish style: our Lord, a nun and saints (Pächt and Alexander iii. 140, pls. XV, XCIII)
Binding
Stamped brown leather on older reversed boards, Reading work of about A.D. 1500
Acquisition
Presented by William Burdet of Sonning in 1608.
Provenance
Reading Abbey, ex libris: 'Hic est liber .S. Marie de Radinge. Quem qui celauerit. & fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit', 13th cent.; identifiable in medieval catalogues of 1192 and the fourteenth century (see MLGB); and cf. MS. Bodl. 241.
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