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

OR BROWSE BY

MANUSCRIPTS
WORKS
PEOPLE
PLACES

MS. Rawl. C. 117

Summary Catalogue no.: 11982

Contents

1.
Campanus of Novara, Compotus major
Language(s): Latin
2.
Arzachel, Opus astrolabii
Language(s): Latin
3.
Profatius Iudaeus, Tabulae almanac (with canons)
Language(s): Latin
4.
Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium
Language(s): Latin
5.
Canon in almanach planetarum.
Language(s): Latin
6.
Astronomical texts and tables
Language(s): Latin
7.
Alkindus, De radiis stellarum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fols. 141–68, Pächt and Alexander iii. 517, pl. XLIX:

Fine border.

Fine initial.

Fine miniatures (drawings).

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): 'liber Johannis de London.' (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725), 1713. (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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 48
Quarto Catalogue, col. 49
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 206

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (25 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 206

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.