Manuscript of 'Anticlaudianus' by Alain de Lille, written in England or northern France.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.3

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1st half of 13th century.

Extent

1 Volumes (iv + 59 folios.)

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Arrangement

Collation: 1-7⁸, 8 (3 leaves). Single columns of 36 lines up to folio 41, and varying from 37 to 45 lines thereafter. Quire-marks in Roman numerals in the bottom left-hand margins of folios 16 verso, 24 verso, and 32 verso. Catchwords on folio 41 recto and folio 48 verso.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Vellum. Binding of brown calf, gold-tooled.

Custodial History

The remains of a partially erased inscription on folio 1 read ‘J. de evesham’ and may be part of a Worcester ex-libris. John de Evesham was a prior of Worcester from 1340 to 1370 (See ‘A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford’, i, page 656). Ex-libris (folio 1) and device (folio 59 verso) of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne. Denmilne number 42. The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library in 1698.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Bibliography

Alain de Lille. ‘Anticlaudianus’, edited by R Bossuat (Paris, 1955).

Gibson, M T, and N F Palmer. ‘Manuscripts of Alan of Lille, “Anticlaudianus”, in the British Isles’, in ‘Studi Medievali’, 3rd series, volume xviii, number 2 (1987), pages 952-953.

Emden, A B. ‘A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford’ (Oxford, 1957-1959), i.