A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Rawl. A. 376

Summary Catalogue no.: 11258

Contents

1.
Ambrose, De uirginibus
Language(s): Latin
2.
Ambrose, De uiduis
Language(s): Latin
3.
Ambrose, De uirginitate
Language(s): Latin
4.
Ambrose, Exhortatio uirginitatis
Language(s): Latin
6.
Ivo of Chartres, Ep. x ('sermo ad uirgines')
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 141)

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; English, Reading

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: Erased Reading inscription and anathema on verso of flyleaf, near top; strip cut from near foot of flyleaf; cf. Rawl. C.118. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Fytton. R. Reynoldes. S. Reynolds. Langley. Lord Somers. Jos. Jekyll, 47. (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.