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