Details for manuscript 586

Manuscript №

586

Location

London

Collection

British Library

Reference

Sloane 513

Headnote

Mainly scientific and grammatic miscellany

Estimated date of production

s.xv

Folia

221

Place of production

Devon

Produced for

Buckfastleigh Abbey

Notes

"5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 6 at the end + a paper after f. 138" ; " The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Buckfast, Devon: see Ker 1964." ; "Richard Dove, Monk of Buckfastleigh Abbey, county Devon: Compiled and wrote, MS.: in the 15th cent." ; "Inscription with the name John Fox (f. 34v)" ; "Inscriptions: 'John Sgacton (?), 'John Shabeton' (?) (ff. 1, 221)." ; see catalogue for contents ; French in "Le Donait" (Dean no. 292) on ff. 135r-139r; Orthographia Gallica (Dean no. 287) on f. 139v; "Tretiz de langage, by Walter Bibbesworth" (Dean no. 285) on ff. 139v-153v (Dean dates MS to s.xiv (1/4); English on ff.98v-99v (DIMEV no. 5854-1) and f.136r ; apparently composite

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