Ivo of Chartres — 12th century, first quarter; French, North-west (?)

Title

Ivo of Chartres — 12th century, first quarter; French, North-west (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. d. 74

Place of origin

French, North-west (?)

Date

12th century, first quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 101 leaves

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 476)

Red, buff, black and green initials with flourishes, some of which are in the shape of human and animal faces

Binding

17th cent.binding of mottled calf.

Acquisition

Bought.

Provenance

Roger de Conway , 14th century, second half. ‘Iste est liber Fratris Rogeri de Conewey et est Pannormia Ivonis Carnotensis continens libros octo’(fol.99v). Roger de Conway was 22nd Minister of the Franciscan Province of England (cf. A. G. Little, Grey Friars in Oxford, p.239).

Chester, Cheshire, Franciscan convent (?) : inscription "Iste ... Conewey" in same form as in Gray's Inn MS. 1, which with MSS. 5 and 12, were given by R. Conway, 22nd Provincial Minister, to the Chester convent. Corway was of the Worcester custody. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

Prob. no. 29 in the collection of 'Henry' [recte John (?)] Langley (Cat. codd. MSS. Angliae et Hiberniae (1697), II no. 6982)

John, Baron Somers (1651–1716): Somers-Jekyll sale (Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls, d. 1738), 26 Feb. 1738, lot 54, pressmark '29: 3' on fol. 1. For the connection between these collections cf. N. R. Ker in The Library 4th Ser., XXIII/1, 1942, 2–4.

'Honest' Thomas Martin of Palgrave

John Ives , his sale, Baker & Leigh 3 March 1777 lot 409

Major J. H. S. Borthwick, of Borthwick, Crookston, Heriot, Midlothian , his sale at Sotheby's 3 June 1946, lot 209