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MS. Rawl. B. 199

Summary Catalogue no.: 11557

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).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 197

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 529–30