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MS. Rawl. C. 32

Summary Catalogue no.: 11898

Contents

Ordinal, Cistercian use.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 65 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × c. 160 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 27-30 lines, 150-160 × 115-125 mm.

Decoration

Miniatures (coloured marginal drawings, partly mutilated). Written at Mellifont by Donatus Okhellay, monk of Monasterevin, for his abbot, Thomas Macostela, fol. 65. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1286, pl. CXVII)

History

Origin: 1501 ; Irish

Provenance and Acquisition

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. 10
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 204

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 667
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 219

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.