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

MS. Rawl. C. 346

Summary Catalogue no.: 12200

Contents

Statutes of England (nova statuta), 1 Edward III to 16 Richard II

A table of contents is prefixed, up to 13 Rich. II. Contents very close to MS. Rawl. C. 321.

Four leaves (?) missing at end.

Language(s): Anglo-Norman and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 80 leaves, folio

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 847)

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas, lord Scales (d. 1460): see below.

“Iste liber constat \Henrico Tofft/ ex dono Thomæ domini de Scales”: Henry Tofft, fl. 1477-1505, for whom see J. Baker, The Men of Court 1440 to 1550, Selden Society supp. ser. 18 (2012), II. 1537

Henry Powle

George Montagu, first earl of Halifax: his sale, 1740, lot 369.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) 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).

Last Substantive Revision

2024-12: Revised to incorporate all information in printed catalogues.