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MS. Rawl. B. 191

Summary Catalogue no.: 11551

Contents

Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (to 1327)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander iii. 722)

Good border.

Good initial.

Penwork initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; 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).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 197
Quarto Catalogue, Col. 525

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

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.