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MS. Rawl. B. 170

Summary Catalogue no.: 11538

Contents

1.
Chronicle from c. 1214–1260,

fragments

Language(s): Old French
2.
Grandes Chroniques de France,

fragments, from Philip Augustus to 1212

Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Mutilated and damaged. (Pächt and Alexander i. 585)

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; French

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 (1966).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 196
Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 513–4

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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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.