MS. Rawl. B. 193
Summary Catalogue no.: 11553
Contents
(fols. 1r–111r)
, 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
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
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.
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.