MS. Rawl. C. 118

Summary Catalogue no.: 11983

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones super cantica canticorum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 237:

Good and other initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, Reading (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin (?) : Initial (fol. 1r) and script suggest Reading. Strip (containing ex-libris?) cut from foot of flyleaf (cf. Rawl. A.376). (MLGB3: evidence from the style of script or illumination).

John Langley. Lord Somers (MS. Th. 73): sale lot 102. John Lewis. Mark (Langley's?) '43:2'. (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. 49

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 206