Extent:
[37] leaves. Note:
Gothic book script; 2 columns of 23 lines (19 x 13.75 cm.).
Written in brown ink in a large and very regular hand. Leaves [16]
- [21] and [36] - [37] are fourteenth century additions imitating
the original style. Headings in red. Decorated initials in blue
with good red penwork infilling and elaborate flourishes, some of
which end in human and animal heads. Rubrication in red or blue.
Marginal pen drolleries in brown ink at leaves [15], [24v], [25],
[28], [29v], [30v], [31] and [35v].
Leaves [14], [27], and [32] slightly mutilated.
Written almost certainly at the monastery of the Augustinian Canons
Regular of Llantony Secunda, Gloucestershire.
Early 19th cent. vellum binding, with gilt border and spine.
Title derived from the recto of leaf [1]: Capitula in procursum
uite uenerabilis Roberti herefordens' episcopi.
Colophon: Explicit uita d[omi]ni Rob. de Betou ep[iscop]i
hereford.
One of three known manuscripts of the Vita. Cf. Lambeth Palace
Library, MS. 475 and the British Museum, Cotton Julius D.X.
Cf. Anthony à Wood, "Historia ... Univ. Oxon." (1674) I, p. 48;
Thomas Tanner, "Bibliotheca Brit. - Hibern." (1748), p. 364;
Sotheby's "Catalogue of thirty-nine manuscripts of the 9th to the
16th century from the celebrated collection formed by Sir Thomas
Phillipps" (1965), p. 29-30; Union list of manuscripts in Canadian
repositories, v. 2, p. 1344.
In slipcase.
Formerly catalogued as Fisher MSS 05088.
Also available in microfilm: mfm dup 331
Acquired from H.P. Kraus, 13 May 1966.
Later owners included Dr Silas Taylor, Thomas Bird, and Sir Thomas
Phillipps (MS 22230). Genre:
Biography
Illuminations--Specimens--Great Britain--1200 Subject:
Robert, de Bethune, -1148
Catholic Church. Diocese of Hereford (England). History Sources
Catholic Church Great Britain Clergy--Great Britain History
Sources
Clergy--Great Britain--Office--History--Sources
Manuscripts, Latin
Great Britain--Church history--1066-1485
Great Britain--History--Henry I, 1100-1135
Great Britain--History--Stephen, 1135-1154
Manuscripts, Medieval
