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

MS. Rawl. A. 386

Summary Catalogue no.: 11268

Contents

Register of writs
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine border.

Fine initial.

Fine miniature of 15th century, middle, affixed to fol. 83. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 841, pl. XCV)

  • fol. 83r: A man seated on a cushion on a high-backed chair; five standing men in academic dress with gestures of teaching, two tonsured, three wearing pileus; a scribe, seated on the ground, writing on a scroll (pastedown, 15th century, middle).

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning; addition, 15th century middle ; 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.