MS. Rawl. A. 374

Summary Catalogue no.: 15473

Augustine, De consensu euangelistarum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

One fine, many other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 152, pl. XV)

fol. 1v: initial I. Coiled tendrils with foliage and flowers; two animal heads.

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; English, Lanthony

Provenance and Acquisition

Lanthony (Secunda), Gloucestershire, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist: Apparently in the same hand as Oxford, Trinity Coll. 33 (i.e. as Lambeth Palace 189 and other MSS certainly from Lanthony). (MLGB3: evidence from the style of script or illumination).

Given to Thomas Hearne by Richard Graves of Mickleton, 29 July 1723. (MLGB3)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973). Additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000.

Quarto Catalogue, col. 377

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 432