- Production date
- [between 1340 and 1360]
- Call number
- mssHM 132
- Provenance
- Belonged to the Benedictine house of St. Werburg's in Chester; Ker, MLGB, p. 50; bottom of f. 294, which may have contained an ex libris, is cut away. On f. 294v an erased valuation, s. XIV/XV, "10 l, xix s, iiii d." On f. 183, s. XV or later, "Ricardus abbas monasterii Sancte Werburge," referring to Richard Seynesbury, abbot 1349-63. On f. i, heavily cancelled, "Liber E__?___ Richford [?]." On the rear pastedown, from the middle or end of the 16th century, "Iste liber pertinet beare it well in mynde/ Ad me Georgium Savagium Boothe curteyes and kynde/ A penis inferni Iehesu him bringe/ Ad gaudia celestia to everlastinge ioye. Amen" (Hanna, "Addenda," n. 25), and again, "By me George Savage." George Savage was appointed chancellor of the cathedral of Chester in 1541, a year after St. Werburg's was dissolved. Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his MS 20712 (slip with number on spine; stamp and number on f. i). Phillipps sale, 5 June 1899, lot 698. Acquired in July 1900 by George Dunn (1865-1912) of Woolley Hall with his bookplate and pencilled note on front pastedown; his sale, Sotheby's, 11 February 1913, lot 512 with plate of the map on f. 4v, to Edwards. A typewritten description of this manuscript attributed to William Morris retained in Library files, but there is no indication that the manuscript ever belonged to him. Acquired February 1918 from Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928) of Minneapolis by Henry E. Huntington.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 174 x 264 mm
- Associated people
- Higden, Ranulf, (-1364,)
- Higden, Ranulf, (-1364.)
- Phillipps, Thomas, (1792-1872,)
- Jones, Herschel V. (1861-1928,)
- Morris, William, (1834-1896,)
- Associated organizations
- St. Werburgh's Abbey (Chester, England),
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.