Pages

The Andrew W.Mellon Foundation | The Neil Ker Memorial Fund

Miscellanea historica et iuristica — Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Benedictine Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Aldhelm.


Provenance: Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Benedictine Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Aldhelm.
Location: Bodleian Library , Oxford
Shelfmark: Arch. Seld. B.16
Author/Title: Miscellanea historica et iuristica
Type of evidence: s: evidence from the style of script or illumination
Notes on evidence:

Partly in a hand which occurs in Malmesbury MSS. and has been identified as that of Wm. of Malmesbury:

Cambridge, U.L., Ii.3.20, Cambridge, CCC, 330, Trinity Coll. 1301, Lambeth Palace 224, Bodleian, Arch. Seld. B.16, Auct. F.3.14, Lincoln Coll., lat. 100, Magdalen Coll., lat. 172, Merton Coll. 181, fol. 230 (binding leaf); Oriel Coll. 42 contain writing in a hand identified as that of William of Malmesbury; for nos. 3–7 cf. N.R. Ker in E.H.R. 59 (1944), pp. 371–76.

Cf. Stubbs, Gesta Regum, RS 1, pp. cxxxi ff.

Date: s. xii in.
Notes:

Hand of fols. 73ra/15–134v occurs in Merton 181 q. v.; arrow g's, fols. 109v, 110v, 134r.