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Royal MS 10 B XIV
- Record Id:
- 040-002106514
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0000d3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165175893.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 10 B XIV
- Title:
- John Dumbleton, Summa logicae et philosophiae naturalis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 4r-225v: Summa logicae et naturalis philosophiae by John Dumbleton (d. 1349?), fellow of Merton College, Oxford, by 1338 and named as one of the original fellows of Queen's College in 1341. Composed after 1335.
ff. 226r-243v: Index.
Decoration:
1 full-page drawing of John the Baptist, added at the beginning of the text (f. 3v). 7 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red and blue and partial borders, at the beginning of each book? (ff. 4r, 28r, 48v, 72r, 89v, 97r, 132v). Initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red, and some in red with pen-flourishing in purple. Running titles in blue and red with pen-flourishing in red and purple. 3 marginal diagrams in ink (ff. 56r, 56v, 205v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106514 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 10 B XIV : John Dumbleton, Summa logicae et philosophiae naturalis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0747]/040-002106514
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165175893.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1335
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 1335-1374
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 190 mm (text space: 210 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 244 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end, and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end; 1 unfoliated medieval parchment leaf between ff. 243 and 244; ff. 1-3 and 244 are medieval parchment flyleaves).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library parchment binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. (Oxford?).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: belonged to John of Lingfield, monk of St Augustine's abbey, ordained acolyte in 1357 and lecturer on canon law at Oxford c. 1365, inscribed 'Summa Magistri Johannis Dumbelton fratris / [under erasure: Ioh. de Lyngfeld de librario s. Aug. Cantuarie],' (f. 1v); and to John Preston, monk of St Augustine's abbey, ordained acolyte in 1361 and prior before 1416, who gave over 20 volumes to the abbey inscribed in the same hand 'Summa Magistri Johannis Dumbletone / fratris Iohannis Prestone', late 14th or early 15th century (f. 2r); inscribed 'de librario sancti Augustini ext[ra] Cantuariam [trefoil sign] distin[ctio]ne xii gradu iii', 15th century (f. 2r); and in the same hand 'frater Symon Maydeston monachus sancti Augustini [trefoil sign]', 15th century (f. 244r); included in the catalogue of St Augustine's abbey as 'Summa Johannis Dumbilton Magistri Johannis Preston', no. 1324 (see Barker-Benfield (ed.), St Augustine's Abbey (2008)).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 816' (f. 4r), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; and in the select list of book noted by John Bale of c. 1548, no. 89; included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), no. 8047).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
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- Publications:
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[Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), no. 8047.
M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 354, no. 1324.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, pp. 322-23.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 44, 244, 245.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.855, H4.89.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), BA I.1324, pp. lxvi, c, cii, n. 103, 449, 1553, 1557, 1790, 1803, 1846, 1848-49, 1862.
Julian M. Luxford, 'Out of the Wilderness: A Fourteenth-Century English Drawing of John the Baptist', Gesta, 49.2 (2010), 137-50.
Kathryn A. Smith, '"A Lanterne of Lyght to the People": English Narrative Alabaster Images of John the Baptist in their Visual, Religious and Social Contexts', Studies in Iconography, 42 (2021), 53-94 (71-72, fig. 9).
- Exhibitions:
- Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery, V&A, London, 1 October 2016 - 5 February 2017
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)