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MS. Rawl. C. 162

Summary Catalogue no.: 12026

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)

Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi

Rubric: Tractatus Bedae qui dicitur Ymago mundi

Incipit: Ad instructionem multorum quibus deest copia librorum

Incipit: Mundus dicitur quasi undique motus

2. (fol. 21)

Bede, Historia ecclesiastica

3. (fol. 101)

Cuthbert, Epistola de obitu Bedae

A note on fol. 102v shows that the volume formerly contained Alfred of Beverley, Historia (now MS. Rawl. B. 200)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

102 leaves

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 845:

Good border.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

York, Yorkshire, Cathedral church of St Peter (?) : Formerly bound before Rawl. B.200 (Alfred of Beverley) and Rawl. B.199 (William of Malmesbury). The whole formed probably a volume of John Newton's bequest described as 'Item librum Bedӕ de gestis Anglorum Alfridi Beverlac et Willielmi Malmesburiensis de Pontificibus in uno volumine' (Test. Ebor. 1. 366). (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Belonged to Bertram Stote armig. (head of fol. 1r), probably Bertram Stote of Newcastle (d. 1707), for whom see History of Parliament. (MLGB3)

Thomas Rawlinson, MS. 316 (Enright, app. B).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Adapted 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), with additional reference to published literature as cited. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 72

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 207