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MS. Rawl. B. 171

Summary Catalogue no.: 11539

Contents

Chronicle of England (Brut Chronicle) to 1333 (start lost; continuation in another hand to 1377)
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century and 15th century ; 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).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 196
Quarto Catalogue, Col. 514

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

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.