John Halgrin of Abbeville — 13th century, first half; English

Title

John Halgrin of Abbeville — 13th century, first half; English

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 6

Place of origin

English

Date

13th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

217 leaves (fol. i-ii, 1-2, are flyleaves)

Decoration

On fol. 7, foliage initial in red, blue, and green on a square yellow-brown background outlined in green.

Other initials: red flourished in blue or blue in red. (Pächt and Alexanderiii. 311)

Added marginal sketches, (a) in pencil: fol. 43, 131v, foliage; fol. 197-198v, interlacing; fol. 206, 207, figures of saints; (b) with stylus: fol. 117-118, hands, and heads of knights(?).

Binding

19th-cent. binding in white parchment with foliage ornament imprinted in black and blue, bearing the ticket of E. Parry, Bookseller and Stationer, Bridge Street Row, Chester.

Acquisition

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Provenance

On fol. 217v (erased) are the following notes: 'Thomas Thurlyth' (15th cent.?), twice; 'Iohannes Rocheste (?)' (15th cent.)

St Osyth, Essex, Augustinian abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Osyth: 'Iste liber pertinet Monasterio Sancte Osythe Virginis et Martyris', and the first six words repeated (fol. 217v, 15th-16th cent.): Ker, Med. Lib.2, p. 170. (MLGB3)

Later in the Mostyn Library: on fol. 2 armorial bookplate with 'Thomas Mostyn 1744 no. 24' (i.e. the 4th Baronet) written on it: on the front pastedown is the Gloddaeth Library ticket and 'Nº 92', the number of the MS. in Hist. MSS. Comm., 4th report, 1874, App., p. 350.

Lot 120 in Mostyn Sale, Sotheby's 13 July 1920.

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948: bought in May 1942 from Quaritch, see their Catalogue of Illuminated and other MSS., 1931, no. 64, and Cat. 566 (1939), no. 464.