MS. Rawl. B. 188

Summary Catalogue no.: 11549

Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hiberniae

Language(s): Latin

Giraldus Cambrensis, Expugnatio Hiberniae

Language(s): Latin

Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Kambriae

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander iii. 389)

Map of England.

Fleuronnée initials.

History

Origin: 13th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: 'Liber fratris W. Bonyngton monachi ecclesie Christi Cantuar. et per eum reparatus anno Domini 1438.' (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

'Modo Henrici Spelman mit.' (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).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 197

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 523