Salisbury, Cathedral Library, MS 223

Cathedral Library
Ms. 223

Provenance:
12th cent., Salisbury

Sigla:

• F = editio Bieler
• F3 = editio White

Facsimiles available: 007r - 011v

© Salisbury Cathedral Library

Content: ^

Vitae Sanctorum

• [...]
• foll. 7r-11v St Patrick's Confessio
  
• foll. 11v-13r St Patrick's Epistola
• [...]

Physical description: ^

Parchment; iv + 122 foll.; 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 41-42 lines; written in minuscule; dated to c. 1100-1200; English script.

History: ^

Provenance and history is closely connected with MS Salisbury Cathedral Library 221 (formerly Oxford Bodeleian Library Fell 4). The codex 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 [...] 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: ^

• CMAH 8687: Edward Bernard, Catalogi Librorum Mss. Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxoniae 1697 [pars prima], p. 374, No 8687.
• 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. 8687, pp. 1211-1213. [Catalogue images: Electronic Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Collection Fell. (cf. below).]
• 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.
• Gernot Wieland, 'England in the German legends of the Anglo-Saxon saints', in Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon culture presented to Helmut Gneuss on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, eds. Michael Korhammer and others, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992, pp. 193-212, at p. 193n.
• David N. Dumville, 'English libraries before 1066: use and abuse of the manuscript evidence' [revised version of article first printed 1981], in 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. 169-219, at p. 200 [= Gneuss no. 624].
• Electronic Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Oxford: Bodeleian Library. Manuscript Collection Fell.
• cf. John T. Gilbert, Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts, vol. II (1878), p. xvi-xxviii with plate LII & appendix III G-M.

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