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MS. Rawl. B. 196

Summary Catalogue no.: 11556

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Chronicle of England (Brut Chronicle) to 1419
Incipit: Here may a man here how Engelonde was first called Albyon,and affterward whanne hit had first name. In the noble lande of Surrye
Explicit: tyll the toun was sette yn rewle and in governaunce

Chapters ccxxiv.—ccxxix. are wanting.

Language(s): Middle English

The following brief articles are inserted at the end of the volume :—

(fol. 109v)
Rubric: Tenor articuli commissionis domini Regis

Declaration, in English, against the harbouring or favouring of accused criminals.

Language(s): Middle English
(fol. 110)
Rubric: Revelatio quam ostendit Deus Esdre prophete et magno scribe ut consideret filiis Israel qualitatem anni per principium kalendarum Januarii
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 110v)
The ABC of Aristotle
Incipit: A. To amerows, to aventrous and angir, tho not to moche. B. To boold, to besy and boorde not to large
DIMEV 178.5
Language(s): Middle English
(fol. 110v)
Rubric: Prophesie Eldegaris
Incipit: Inter saxosum fontem montemque nodosum

For the year 1455.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
viii + 110 + viii paper leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 290 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 198 mm.

Layout

One column of between 38 and 51 lines, unruled. c. 250–255 × c. 140–150 mm.

Hand(s)

One hand (littera cursiva) with marginal additions in a variety of hands.

Decoration

Coloured initials in blue (fol. 1 only) and red (elsewhere).

Frequent, unfilled spaces left for initials at a height of two lines, seemingly without instructions.

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

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).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 197
Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 527–8

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Charis Patterson and Skye-Jane Ingram as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 15th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 16th May 2025.

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Charis Patterson and Skye-Jane Ingram as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 15th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 16th May 2025.