Salisbury, Cathedral Library, MS 221

Cathedral Library
Ms. 221

Provenance:
c. 1050-1150, Salisbury

Sigla:

• G = editio Bieler
• F4 = editio White

Facsimiles available: 158r - 164r

© Salisbury Cathedral Library

Content: ^

Vitae Sanctorum

• fol. IIv Table of content (13th century)
  
• fol. IIIr-IVr Table of content
  in the Hand of bishop Barlow, , about 1655
• [...]
• foll. 158r-164r St Patrick's Confessio
  
• fol. 164r-166r St Patrick's Epistola
  
• [...]

Physical description: ^

Parchment, iv + 270 foll. 14 5/8 x 10 1/2 in; 36 lines; quires numbered; written in minuscule; English script.

History: ^

Written most probably in England (Salisbury).¹

Was still in Salisbury Cathedral in the middle of the 17th century (Ker, p. 97) but consequently passed over to the Bodeleian Library. Note from Dr. B. C. Barker-Benfield (Senior Assistant Librarian, Bodleian Library) of 3 March 2009: "... I must point out is that the Bodleian does not own the three-volume 12th-century set of Saints' Lives formerly shelfmarked MSS. Fell 3, 1 and 4. In 1985 all three volumes were returned permanently to Salisbury Cathedral Library, where they are shelfmarked MSS. 221, 222 and 223 respectively." For the circumstances surrounding this transfer, see Vaisey.

Bibliography: ^

• Edward Bernard, Catalogi Librorum Mss. Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxoniae 1697 [pars prima], p. 374, no. 8689.
• Hardy 210
• Levison 440
• A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series. Vol. II, part II (collections and miscellaneous MSS. acquired during the second half of the 17th century), ed. H. H. E. Craster and N. Denholm-Young, Oxford 1937, No. 8689, pp. 1211-1213. [Catalogue images: Electronic Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Collection Fell..]
• N.P.D. White, The Latin writings ..., in: Proceedings of the RIA 25 C (1905), p. 205
• L. Bieler, Codices Patriciani Latini (1942), p. 2
• L. Bieler, Introduction (1952), p. 10
• David Vaisey, Thomas Hyde and manuscript collecting at the Bodleian Library, in: The foundations of scholarship: libraries and collecting, 1650-1750: papers presented at a Clark Library seminar, 9 March 1985 (Los Angeles, 1992), pp. 3-27.
• R.A.B. Mynors and R.M. Thomson, Catalogue of the manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer for The Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, 1993, p. 111. [Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.]
• Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings, ed. Mary P. Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York and London 1994, pp. 73, 200, 214 [= Gneuss no. 625].
• Electronic Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Oxford: Bodeleian Library. Manuscript Collection Fell.

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