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

MS. Rawl. A. 384

Summary Catalogue no.: 11266

Contents

1.
Alexander de Villa Dei, Algorismus
Language(s): Latin
2.
Peter Lombard, Sententiae (book iv)
Language(s): Latin
3.
Religious treatises
Language(s): Latin
6.
Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniatures (coloured drawings of the tables of consanguinity).

  • fol. 90v: A bearded man in a long tunic and cloak, holding a table of consanguinity. His feet rest on a double-bodied lion, with a single head in the centre.
  • fol. 91r: A bearded man and a woman holding a bunch of streamers which extend to various lines of a table of consanguinity below. The tops of streamers come from the mouth of a lion, whose head is decorated with stylised foliage.

Fine historiated initial.

  • fol. 17r: In the upper part of the initial the Lamb of God with nimbus, holding a staff with banner and cross; in the lower part - a reclining figure, whose head is touched by a hand, appearing from above.

Good penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 439, pl. XXXVIII)

History

Origin: c. 1260–1270 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

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.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.