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

MS. Rawl. C. 269

Summary Catalogue no.: 12129

Contents

1.
Richard Rolle, Emendatio uitae
Language(s): Latin
3.
Treatise on penance
Language(s): Latin
4.
Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae
Language(s): Latin
5.
Sermons.
Language(s): Latin
6.
Logical treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: 'Liber de emendacione vite sive de regula vivendi cum aliis diversis contentis ... anno domini M o CCCCLX [over erasure]' (fol. 1r). 'R. Chelmynton 1454' (fol. 188v). 'W. Dover anno domini 1464' (fol. 187v). Note relating to Christ Church, Canterbury, on fol. 188r. Chelmynton's name occurs in a Christ Church book at Canterbury (Dean and Chapter 37 (B 10)). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

? 'Simon Forman 1600'. Simon Forman (1552–1611) was an astrologer, occultist, and herbalist. 'Richard Bickerton 1722'. (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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