A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Rawl. B. 193

Summary Catalogue no.: 11553

Contents

(fols. 1r–111r)
Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (excerpts, to ‘1342’)
Incipit: In historico namque contextu
Explicit: de auro scilicet nobilem
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
ii + ii + 111 + ii + i
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): c. 175 × c. 125 mm.

Layout

1 col., 31 lines

Decoration

Coloured red initials, some with simple penwork decoration.

Binding

Post-1600, rebacked.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Dating after K. Scott, An index of images in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c.1380 - c.1509 II (2002) no. 818

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted 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), with limited additional description (dimensions, layout) by Matthew Holford, June 2019, and with reference to published literature cited in the description.

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.