Transcripts of treatises from Brit. Mus. MSS., written in about 1650 by Ralph Jennings
Transcripts of treatises from Brit. Mus. MSS.:
- (fol. v) A transcript of William of Malmesbury's treatise de antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, with prologue. The prologue beg. 'Domino in Christi visceri-bus': the text beg. 'Post Dominicę. resurrectionis gloriam.'
- (fol. xiii) A transcript of a treatise de antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiæ, by John a monk of Glastonbury who made use of William of Malmesbury's treatise. The prologue beg. 'Universis patribus': the text beg. 'Glastoniensem ecclesiam non fecerunt.' The first thirty-five chapters correspond to some extent with art. I, and chapters 36-98 are stated to correspond closely with the rest of the Vespasian MS. From chapter 99 to the end (chapt. 146) John is apparently a continuator of William (about 1190-1342). At fol. 81 some copies of Glastonbury deeds follow, and an alphabetical index: and on fol. 103v a receipt by 'Ralph J ennynges' for 40s. received for his transcriptions and collations.
- (fol. 104) A transcript of the Latin Life of Henry V by Titus Livius Forojuliensis of Ferrara. Hearne's edition (1716) was printed from this transcript. At fol. 153 is a Latin account of the first twenty-one bishops of Wells and of Bath and Wells, with a 'prohemium de tempore primævç inchoationis sedis episcopalis Wellensis.' On fol. 160v is a receipt by Ralph Jenninges for 20s. paid to him by Cornelius Bee for the transcript of Titus Livius, Jan. 10, 1650/1.
Dates
- Creation: written in about 1650 by Ralph Jennings
Extent
162 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Latin
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 957
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. V, no. 27593.
Custodial History
This MS. was part of the collections made at the expense of Cornelius Bee, the London bookseller, for a second volume of Twysden's Decern Scriptores (vol. 1, 1652).
After Bee's death bp. John Fell purchased it, with other volumes: most of which passed after Fell's death, in 1686, to his son-in-law the Rev. Henry Jones.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired by The Bodleian Library in 1698.
Bibliography
- See White Kennett's Life of William Somner in the latter's Ports in Kent (Oxford, 1693), pp. 59, 65.
- See vol. iii of the present Catalogue, p. 28. 'Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ MS. hunc Codicem dono dedit Henricus Jones, Rector Ecclcsiæ de Sunning-well in agro Berk.'
- In Bernard's Catalogus MSSrum (1697), tom, ii, pars, i, no. 7037.
Physical Facet
On paper
Repository Details
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