The church’s linen garment , by William Watts, D. D., 1646

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MS. Tanner 262

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The church’s linen garment; that is, the original and universality of the colour, stuff, and fashion of it, all historically deduced out of secular and ecclesiastical antiquity; wherein other ancient habits both of the church and commonwealth are upon this occasion inquired into, by William Watts, D. D.

Ad calc. voluminis legitur, manu ipsius auctoris, "Finisht on Whitsun Eve, 1646, on which morning the lords sent out to sir Thomas Fairfax to treate about deliuering up Oxford."

Dates

Creation: 1646

Extent

106 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MS. Tanner 262

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

Alfred Hackman, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars quarta codices viri admodum reverendi Thomae Tanneri, STP, episcopi Asaphensis, complectens (Oxford, 1860; reprinted with corrections, 1966), no. 262.

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. III, no. 10088.

Custodial History

In operis titulo scripsit vir reverendissimus Gul. Sancroft, "The original MS. bought by me of his widow."

Bibliography

Sequitur licentia imprimendi; "Imprimatur liber hic cui titulus. ‘The Churches linnen garment,’ nec novitatis posthac incusetur quod a tam multis retro seculis probatum ostenditur. Quintilis 3, 1662. M. Franck, S. T. P., R°. D°. Ep°. Lond. a sacris domesticis."