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<provenance>Half-erased and cropped off 16th-century notes on fols. 107v, 115r and 122v. The notes on fol. 115r include the name <q><persName role="sgn">Thomas Chenies</persName></q>.</provenance>
<provenance><persName ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76274746" role="fmo">Sir William Sinclair</persName>, laird of Roslin (d. 1580/5): ‘William Santclair of Roislin, Knecht’ <locus>(fols. 1r, 18v)</locus>; <q>die secundo aprilis anno mº vº lxi</q>, followed by a signature of William Sinclair (?), fol. 81v, at the end of Luke’s gospel. Many of his manuscripts were acquired from religious houses whose libraries had been broken up during the Scottish Reformation (Mapstone (1996)). Later owned by <q>D. Sinclair of Roisling</q> <locus>(fol. 1r)</locus>.</provenance>
<provenance><persName key="person_4933" role="fmo">Sir William Sinclair</persName>, laird of Roslin (d. 1580/5): ‘William Santclair of Roislin, Knecht’ <locus>(fols. 1r, 18v)</locus>; <q>die secundo aprilis anno mº vº lxi</q>, followed by a signature of William Sinclair (?), fol. 81v, at the end of Luke’s gospel. Many of his manuscripts were acquired from religious houses whose libraries had been broken up during the Scottish Reformation (Mapstone (1996)). Later owned by <q>D. Sinclair of Roisling</q> <locus>(fol. 1r)</locus>.</provenance>
<provenance><persName key="person_73742847" role="fmo">Charles Fairfax</persName> (1597–1673), antiquary and genealogist; see <title>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</title>: ‘bought in Scotland’ <locus>(fol. 1r)</locus>; ‘Wickliff’s Translation of the New Testament’ <locus>(fol. ii recto)</locus>; signatures on fols. iii recto, 1r, 18v, 19r, 198v. See also MS. Dugdale 46.</provenance>
<provenance><persName key="person_74654593" role="fmo">Thomas Fairfax</persName> (1612–1671), nephew of Charles Fairfax; see <title>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</title>.</provenance>
<acquisition when="1671">Bodleian Library: bequeathed by Thomas Fairfax in 1671.</acquisition>
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<title>MS. Fairfax 12</title>
<title type="collection">MSS. Fairfax</title>
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<resp>Summary description</resp>
<persName>Elizabeth Solopova</persName>
<respStmt xml:id="SC">
<resp when="1937">Cataloguer</resp>
<persName>Falconer Madan</persName>
<persName>N. Denholm-Young</persName>
<persName>H. H. E. Craster</persName>
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<resp when="2024">Encoding</resp>
<persName>Matthew Holford</persName>
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<respStmt xml:id="PA">
<resp when="1973">Cataloguer</resp>
<persName>Otto Paecht</persName>
<persName>J. J. G. Alexander</persName>
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<idno type="SCN">3892</idno>
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<head>Bede, <title>Historia ecclesiastica</title>, etc.; England, north (?), early 12th century</head>
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<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
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<author key="person_61539765">Bede</author>
<title key="work_968">Historia ecclesiastica</title>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
<note>The prefatory letter, beg. 'Gloriosissimo regi Coeluulfo Beda famulus' (fol. 4), is followed by the table of chapters (fol. 5). The text beg. 'Britannia insula cui quondam Albion' (fol. 6). </note>
<note>ed. Colgrave and Mynors, 1969; this ms. listed p. liii in 'a group of copies which seems to have its home in Yorkshire'.</note>
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<locus>(fol. 140v)</locus>
<author key="person_218622867">Cuthbert</author>
<title key="work_1341">Epistola de obitu Bedae</title>
<incipit>Munusculum quod misisti <locus>(fol. 140v, after the salutation)</locus></incipit>
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<msItem>
<locus>(fol. 142)</locus>
<author key="person_9966678">Abbo of Fleury</author>
<title key="work_210">Passio S. Edmundi</title>
<incipit>Domino sancto Dorobernensium ecclesie archiepiscopo Dunstano</incipit>
<incipit type="text">Asciti aliquando in Britanniam <locus>(fol. 142v)</locus></incipit>
<note>Ends imperfectly.</note>
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<support>parchment</support>
<extent>149 leaves
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<height>11.5</height>
<width>7.4</width>
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<decoNote type="decInit">Fine initials in two styles. Good initials. (<ref target="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000468709">Pächt and Alexander</ref> iii. 73, pl. VIII)</decoNote>
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<country key="place_7002445">English</country>, <region>North</region> (?)<!--ORIGINAL: English, North (?)--></origPlace>
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<provenance type="MLGB3_provenance_evidence" source="http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5171">
<orgName role="fmo" key="org_134950157">Selby, York, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St German</orgName>: 17th-cent. inscription states it belonged to Selby priory. 'Cronica XII'. 'Liber Sancti [...] de Saleby' (s. xv) on front cover, outside. (<ref target="http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5171">MLGB3</ref>: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution). </provenance>
<provenance type="MLGB3_laterOwners" source="http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5171">'W. Santclair of Roislin, knight', 1592. Walter Cant, advcates of Edinburgh, gave it to col. Charles Fairfax, 1650. (<ref target="http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5171">MLGB3</ref>)</provenance>
<provenance type="MLGB3_generalNotes" source="http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5171">Cf. Plummer, Bedae Op. Hist., 1. cxxi. (<ref target="http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5171">MLGB3</ref>)
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<orgName role="fmo" key="org_134950157">Selby, York, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St German</orgName>: 17th-cent. inscription states it belonged to Selby priory. 'Cronica XII'. 'Liber Sancti [...] de Saleby' (s. xv) on front cover (now fol. 2), outside. (<ref target="http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/5171">MLGB3</ref>: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution). </provenance>
<provenance>'<persName role="fmo" key="person_4933">W. Santclair of Roislin, knight</persName>' (d. c. 1582), with the date 2 Jan. 1591/1592 added later (H J Lawlor, 'Notes on the Library of the Sinclairs of Rosslyn', <title>Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland</title> 32 (1898), 109-10)</provenance>
<provenance> <persName role="fmo" key="person_4934">Walter Cant, advocate, of Edinburgh</persName>; given by him in 1650 (fol. 2v) to:</provenance>
<provenance><persName role="fmo" key="person_73742847">Charles Fairfax (1597–1673), antiquary</persName>. There are Latin lines dedicated to Fairfax, subscribed 'Sam. Colvile Scotus' (fol. 2v). By descent to his nephew: </provenance>
<provenance><persName role="fmo" key="person_74654593">Thomas Fairfax, third Lord Fairfax of Cameronunlocked (1612–1671)</persName></provenance>
<acquisition when="1671">Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian in 1671.</acquisition>

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<source>Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources. <listBibl>
<source>Description adapted (2024) from Summary Catalogue (1937), with additional reference to published literature as cited. Localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander. <listBibl>
<bibl facs="aaq0136.gif" type="SC">Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 777</bibl>
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<change when="2024-06">Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.</change>
<change when="2021-12-14">Add provenance information from MLGB3.</change>
<change when="2017-07-01">First online publication.</change>
<change when="2017-05-25">
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<persName source="bodl" type="display">Thomaso di Bartolomeo Guidi, of Florence, 16th century</persName>
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<persName source="bodl" type="display">Sinclair, William. of Roslin, -approximately 1582</persName>
<persName source="bodl" type="variant">St Clair, William. of Rosslyn</persName>
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<bibl>H J Lawlor, 'Notes on the Library of the Sinclairs of Rosslyn', <title>Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland</title> 32 (1898), 109-10</bibl>
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<persName source="bodl" type="display">Cant, Walter, of Edinburgh, fl. 1650</persName>
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