MS. Rawl. B. 192

Summary Catalogue no.: 11552

William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century or 14th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Rufford, Nottinghamshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber Sancte Marie fratris [...] Monachi de Rufforth' (s. xiii–xiv), at the head of the text (fol. 1r), in red. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Lord Somers. Sir J. Jekyll. (MLGB3)

The name has been read as Tufforth (?), but the R, though rubbed, seems certain. (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).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 197

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 525–6