MS. Rawl. B. 150

Summary Catalogue no.: 11520

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae

Abbreviation, with continuation to 1265, incorporating material on Battle Abbey

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Miniatures (marginal sketches). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 498)

fol. 8r

Type drawings, right and lower margin
Subject Grotesques with human heads.

History

Origin: 13th century, last third ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Battle, Sussex, Benedictine abbey of St Martin: election of abbots of Battle entered in annals. Continuation of the Brut on the Barons' War was written by a monk of Battle. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, by the 15th century: catalogue, BA1.896 (second folio matches); fol. 1* (a cut-down flyleaf) has a note in the hand of the St Augustine's monk Clement Canterbury (MLGB3).

'Georgius Goodwyn' (fol. 1r, s. xvi). (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.

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 196

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 501–2