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Library Place	Oxford
Library Name	Bodleian Library
Shelfmark	MS Bodley 155 (S.C. 1974)
Folio Range	Whole MS (196 fols)
Date	X ex. / XI in.
Origin(s)	England Barking
Provenance	Barking Abbey
Genre	Gospel-book
Contents	The four Gospels (beginning respectively at fols 1v, 58r, 94r, 147r), each preceded by prefaces and capitula (acephalous and lacunose) (1r-182r) Capitulare evangeliorum (182v-196r) Added 11th- and 12th-century English records (196v).
Old Breton Materials	No
Irish / Hiberno-Latin materials	No
Connection with Brittany	Certainly not written in Brittany Some contents probably derive from a Breton exemplar / archetype
Notes	The contents of this Gospel-book may have been copied in toto or partially from a Breton MS possibly belonging to the 'Landévennec group' of Gospel-books, e.g. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D.2.16, also known as 'Leofric Gospels' (cf. Temple 1976: 78; Pfaff 2009: 348).
Number(s) in Bischoff's Katalog	n/a
Essential bibliography	ASM §554; Ganz 2012: 195; Ker 1957: 357–8 (§303); Lemoine 2005: 15; MMOL; Pfaff 2009: 348; Temple 1976: 17, 20, 78 (§59).
URLs for digital facsimile	A few folios can be seen at https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/7c2ed8a1-566b-4da7-9cfd-96742b99f2d3
Last Updated	2021-05-27 10:31:41
Author	Jacopo Bisagni
DHBM Identifier	#114
Permalink	https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/114

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