MS. Rawl. B. 484

Summary Catalogue no.: 11831

Collectanea of Sir James Ware, comprising fragments, extracts and notes mostly on Ireland but including (fol. 85) cutting without text from a Psalter, English, Winchester, 10th century, second quarter.

Language(s): Latin, French, English, and Irish

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment, paper

Decoration

Fine miniature on fol. 85, originally an addition in the Athelstan Psalter (London, British Library, Cotton MS. Galba A. XVIII). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 19, pl. II)

fol. 85r

Type miniature
Subject Nativity of Christ.

History

Origin: 10th century - 17th century ; English, Winchester (in part)

Provenance and Acquisition

Winchester, Hampshire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun: An illuminated fragment removed from Cotton Galba A.xviii. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

v. Millar, Engl. Illum. MSS. s. x--xiii. (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. 203

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 700

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 701–2