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MS. Rawl. C. 162

Summary Catalogue no.: 12026

Contents

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

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
vi (paper) + ii (early-modern paper, tipped into quire 1) + 102 + xxxviii (paper) leaves
Dimensions (binding): 320 × 215 × 45 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 311 × 210 mm.

Collation

Usually quires of 8 leaves.

Layout

216 × 65 mm. 13

Hand(s)

Anglicana formata.

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

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Tom Revell and Shaw Worth as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 29th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 4th June 2025.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Tom Revell and Shaw Worth as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 29th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 4th June 2025.