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

MS. Rawl. B. 501

Summary Catalogue no.: 11848

Contents

Registrum de Kilmainham

Chapter Acts of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem at their chief house of Kilmainham, near Dublin, under the Grand Prior Roger Outlawe, 1321–1339.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 116 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 268 × 195 mm.

Layout

1 col., 17 lines, 210 × 140 mm.

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander iii. 1275)

Historiated initials.

Red and blue initials, decorated with contrasting blue, green and red penwork designs, including heads, faces, birds and plants.

History

Origin: c. 1340, supplemented 1341–9 ; Irish

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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 665

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.