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MS. Rawl. B. 483

Summary Catalogue no.: 11830

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander iii. 321, pl. XXVII)

Good historiated initials.

fol. 17v

  • Type initial D
  • Subject Caesara, Noah's niece, making the first voyage to Ireland in the year before the flood (boat with sailors on the sea, a woman disembarks).

Good other initials.

fol. 1r

  • Type initial C
  • Subject Spiral formed by a dragon's body and tail, acanthus-leaf designs.

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

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. 203
Quarto Catalogue, Col. 700

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.