Stowe MS 35

DE CORPORE ET SANGUINE DEI: a treatise on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by B[aldwin], brother of the Abbey of Ford [in Devonshire, afterwards Abbot of Ford in 1168, Bishop of Worcester in 1180, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1184-1191], dedicated to B[artholomew], Bishop of Exeter [1159-1172]. No title; begins with the dedicatory epistle "Amantissimo domino et patri B. dei gratia Exoniensi episcopo frater B. fordensis monasterii servus eternam in domino salutem."Unfinished, ending with the words "memoriam habundantie suavitatis eius eructabunt" (Tissier, p. 157, col. 2, 1. 5); a few blank pages remain, which have been ruled with lines for the completion of the work. Printed in Tissier's Bibliotheca Patrum Cisterciensium, vol. iv. (1662), pp. 103- 159; and in Migne's Patrologia, vol. cciv. 641. Vellum; ff. 103. Early XIIIth cent. Large coloured initials; titles of chapters in red. Belonged to Waltham Cross Abbey; and in 1800 to Thomas Bryan Richards, who has left some notes on the inner cover. It also contains the book-plate of [Rev.] Osmund Beauvoir [D.D., ob. 1789], and the name of Charles Fotherby, to whom the volume was given by his uncle Charles Fotherby. At the end is the name of William Rottorend, Canon of Waltham. Bound in boards covered with (modern) leather. Octavo.

Bookplates: Beauvoir (Rev. Osmund), D.D.: 18th cent.

Reverend Osmund Beauvoir, DD: Bookplates: 18th cent.

Baldwin, of Ford Abbey, afterwards Abbot of Ford, Bishop of Worcester (1180) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1184): De Corpore et Sanguine Dei: early 13th cent.

Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Initials: circ. 1200, early 13th cent., 15th cent., A.D. 1578.

includes:

• f. 103 b William Rottorend, Canon of Waltham Abbey: Autograph: 15th cent.