MS. Rawl. C. 159

Summary Catalogue no.: 12023

Henry of Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 627:

Good border (retouched?).

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "de librario Sancti Augustini Cantuarie" (fol. i verso), s. xv in. (Medieval binding.) (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

"It was my father his booke, and lay in his studdy att Seargeants Inn. Pe. Manwood." (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. 71

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 207