Extracts from medieval manuscripts relating to early English history, copied in the second half of the 17th cent., partly from earlier 17th-cent. collections

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MS. Lat. misc. c. 52

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Extracts from medieval manuscripts relating to early English history, copied in the second half of the 17th century, partly from earlier 17th-century collections, including: (fols. 3-59) lives of St. Germanus, St. Aldhelm and Bede; (fols. 105-65) 'Annales Asserio Menevensi adscripti', copied from Cambridge, Trinity College MS. 770; (fols. 232-78) extracts from the Textus Roffensis, with many smaller pieces.

325 leaves, 279-324 blank.

Dates

Creation: second half of the 17th century

Extent

325 Leaves

Language of Materials

Latin

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Lat. misc. c. 52, fols. 1-2].

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Shelfmark:

MS. Lat. misc. c. 52

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 16798

Additional Description

Abstract

Extracts from medieval manuscripts relating to early English history, copied in the second half of the 17th century, partly from earlier 17th-cent. collections.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical details unknown.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, no. 47905.

Custodial History

Inscribed (front pastedown and fol. 1v) '28'; Sotheby's, 30 July 1883 (Sir Richard Colt Hoare sale), lot 448.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought from E. Williams of Hove, 1922.

Physical Facet

bound by C. Lewis of the Strand, 19th century, in blind-stamped calf, with the arms of Hoare of Stourhead and 'Collectanea Anglo-Saxonica' on spine, rebacked