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MS. Rawl. B. 485

Summary Catalogue no.: 11832

Contents

1.
Jocelin of Furness, Life of St. Patrick
Language(s): Latin
2.
Lives of Irish Saints.
Language(s): Latin with some Irish in the text and in later additions

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; Irish, Augustinian priory of Saints' Island in Lough Ree, Co. Longford (?)

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).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 203
Quarto Catalogue, Col. 702
Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 703–4
Quarto Catalogue, Col. 705

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Brian Ó Cuiv, Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries, 2 vols (Dublin, 2001–3), I.115–19
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 179b

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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.