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'Incipit tractatus exemplorum de habundancia adopcionum ad omnem materiam in sermonibus secundum ordinem alphabeti', Written in the late 13th century in England

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MS. Marshall 94
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'Incipit tractatus exemplorum de habundancia adopcionum ad omnem materiam in sermonibus secundum ordinem alphabeti', beg. 'Accidia. Nota accidiosus est sicut canis' (fol. 1), followed by (fol. 100v) a list of the lemmata.

Dates

  • Creation: Written in the late 13th century in England

Extent

106 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Marshall 94

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 5293

Custodial History

Manuscript (61).

This MS. was possessed by 'Willelmus Langley' in the 16th cent. (fol. ivv) and by William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire, in 1630 (ib.).

Related Materials

This book of moral commonplaces with anecdotes, found also in MSS. Rawl. 899, Misc. 368, and MS. All Souls coll. no. 19, is more fully described by J. A. Herbert in Catalogue of Romances in the Dept. of MSS. in the Brit. Mus. iii. 414-23, which see for some other MSS.

Physical Facet

On parchment, in double columns, with illuminated capitals

Dimensions

7 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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