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

MS. Rawl. B. 199

Summary Catalogue no.: 11557

Contents

William of Malmesbury, De gestis pontificum Anglorum

Part of a set with MS. Rawl. B. 200 and MS. Rawl. C. 162

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 846)

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

York, Yorkshire, Cathedral church of St Peter (?) : (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Rawl. B.199, B.200 and C.162 formed one volume. (MLGB3)

Price mark 'xxiii s iiii d' at end of B.199 (fol. 64r). (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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.