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English Benedictine Libraries: the Shorter Catalogues

Title:
English Benedictine Libraries: the Shorter Catalogues
Author:
Sharpe, R.
Series:
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues
Location:
London
Notes:
  • At Gloucester by third quarter of the thirteenth century [B47.1], pp. 247-8
  • At Worcester by late eleventh century (B114), pp. 653-4
  • Catalogue of the library of Rochester Abbey, drawn up in 1202, in which the volume described as _Chronica Francorum i volumen_ (Item No. 136) may be identified with what is now CCCC MS 373, p. 514
  • Dating to s. ix ex.; probably the copy in a Glastonbury catalogue of 1247/8 (B39.319), p. 207
  • Dating to s. x; possibly identifiable in a list of manuscripts at Sherborne noted by Leland c. 1536-40 (B94.5), though rejected as a Sherborne book by Ker, p. 591
  • Dating to s. xi 1, perhaps included in mid-eleventh-century Worcester booklist (B114.7), pp. 653-4
  • Dating to s. xi; pp. 131-45 have only surviving text of the Old English Apollonius of Tyre (mentioned under B11.67), p. 42
  • Dating to s. xi/xii; Lanfranc’s Ep. 49 is mentioned in Bale’s excerpts from Walter the Chanter’s lost Indiculus, compiled at St Albans circa 1180 (B85.37), p. 549
  • Dating to s. xii 1, made at Christ Church Canterbury for Anselm of Bury St Edmunds, included in late twelfth-century Bury book list (B13.28), p. 56
  • Dating to s. xii 2 - xiii 1; in fifteenth-century index catalogue of selected authors at York Abbey (ff. 143r-159v = B120.174; ff. 185v-189r = B120.175), p. 701
  • Dating to s. xii 2, Sawley; seen by Bale at Westminster Abbey (mentioned under B45.4), p. 238
  • Dating to s. xii ex., Kentish, perhaps from Faversham; probably related textually to a manuscript included in the fragmentary early twelfth-century Rochester catalogue, p. 495
  • Dating to s. xii in., included in Rochester library catalogues of 1122/3 (B77.18) and 1202 (B79.18), pp. 475-6, 500
  • Dating to s. xii in., included in Rochester library catalogues of 1122/3 (B77.55) and 1202 (B79.96), pp. 483, 509
  • Dating to s. xii; a MS of this text is included in a list of manuscripts at Malmesbury noted by Leland c. 1536-4 (B54.17); the MS was rejected as a Malmesbury book by Ker, p. 264
  • Dating to s. xii/xiii, one of two copies recorded in the fifteenth-century York library catalogue (B120.441), p. 728
  • Dating to s. xiii; included in a mid-fourteenth-century catalogue of Ramsey Abbey, as one of the donations of Prior Gregory (B68.531), p. 406
  • Dating to s. xiv 2, Christ Church; the text _Philosophia monachorum_ (ff. 1-33) is mentioned in a list of books bequeathed to Evesham Abbey in the late fourteenth century (B30.45), p. 143
  • Dating to s. xiv; included in a list of books belonging to Prior Simon Bozoun, prior of Norwich 1344-52 (B58.26), p. 303
  • Dating to s. xiv; included in a list of books belonging to Prior Simon Bozoun, prior of Norwich 1344-52 (B58.30); seen by Bale at Norwich in the sixteenth century (B61.10, 13-14), pp. 304, 310-11
  • F. i has thirteenth-century list of books once owned by Robert of Aldsworth (B47), pp. 247-51
  • Ff. 1-48: dating to s. xii/xiii, included in Rochester Library catalogue of 1202 (B79.132), p. 513
  • Ff. 49-208: dating to s. xiii in., included in Rochester Library catalogue of 1202 (B79.104), and in list of books copied or acquired by Alexander, precentor, soon after 1202 (B80.3), pp. 510, 527
  • Ff. 209-74: dating to s. xii in., perhaps included in fragmentary early twelfth-century catalogue of Rochester Library (B78.31), certainly in Rochester Library catalogue of 1202 (B79.148), pp. 496, 515
  • MS 2 is first volume (and only survivor) of two-volume Bible made at Bury circa 1135; removed to refectory by fifteenth century, perhaps because now outmoded (B13.2 = B15.17), pp. 53, 90, 94
  • Perhaps identifiable with entry in mid-eleventh-century Worcester booklist (B114.6), pp. 653-4
  • Possibly identifiable in a list of manuscripts at Sherborne noted by Leland c. 1536-4 (B94.3), though rejected as a Sherborne book by Ker, p. 590
  • Probably identifiable as the first in a thirteenth-century list, entered in this MS, of books given by Robert of Aldsworth to Gloucester Abbey (B47.1), p. 248
  • Pt 2, f. 48v: B114, mid-eleventh-century booklist of Worcester Cathedral Priory, pp. 653-4
  • Pt 2: dating to s. xii ex., included in Rochester library catalogue of 1202 (B79.122), p. 512
  • Ralph Gubiun’s _Historia Alexandri Macedonis_ is mentioned in Bale’s excerpts from Walter the Chanter’s lost _Indiculus_, compiled at St Albans c. 1180 (B85.41), p. 550
  • Seen by Leland at York, circa 1536-40 (B121.7-15), pp. 787-8
Volume:
4
Reference Type:
Book
Manuscript:
bg770ss0372

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