Details for manuscript 550

Manuscript №: 550
Location: London
Collection: British Library
Reference: Royal 11 B III
Headnote: Grosseteste etc.
Estimated date of production: s.xiv (in)
Folia: 362
Place of production: Suffolk
Produced for: Brother Martin at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, Bury
Notes: contents based on catalogue description and therefore uncertain; "Written by Brother Martin at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, Bury: inscribed: 'Fr[ater] martin[us] me sc[ri]psit' (f. 360v); 'Liber sancti edmundi regis et martiris, si quis alienaverit anathema sit', .shelfmark no. V 18 (see M. R. James, On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury (Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1895), p. 81 no. 225)."; "John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1v); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 834 (see The Lumley Library, 1956); his library acquired by Henry, prince of Wales."
Sources for this record: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5418&CollID=16&NStart=110203; https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200397/BibliographicResource_3000126277110.html

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text	Title	Language	Start folio (ordinal)	End folio (ordinal)	Total pages
1	14th-century table of contents (f. 1).	Latin	1r (1)	1r (1)	1.0
2	Latin theological texts	Latin	1v (2)	28v (56)	55.0
3	Guillelmus Peraldus: On the Virtues (f. 29);	Latin	29r (57)	225v (450)	394.0
4	Miracles of the Virgin (ff. 226, 233);	Latin	226r (451)	281r (561)	110.5
5	Bonaventure: Lignum Vitae (f. 281);	Latin	281r (561)	289v (578)	17.5
6	Gerard of Liege: De Custodia Cordes (f. 290);	Latin	290r (579)	319r (637)	59.0
7	Robert Grosseteste: De Decem Mandatis (f. 319v);	Latin	319v (638)	328v (656)	19.0
8	Tract on the Compotus (f. 329);	Latin	329r (657)	333v (666)	10.0
9	Vision of St Paul (f. 334v);	Latin	334r (667)	336v (672)	6.0
10	Extracts from Seneca (f. 337);	Latin	337r (673)	344v (688)	16.0
11	Barlaam and Jehosephat (f. 345).	Latin	345r (689)	359r (717)	29.0
12	Prayer (Dean no. 892)	French	359v (718)	360r (719)	2.0
13	(Dean no. 764)	French	360v (720)	361r (721)	1.5
14	Prayer (Dean no. 892)	French	361r (721)	361r (721)	0.5

Owners
Owner number	Owner	Period	Gender	Type	Source
1	Brother Martin at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, Bury	s.xiv (in)	man	clerical	https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5418&CollID=16&NStart=110203