MS. Rawl. C. 370

Summary Catalogue no.: 12224

Indenture between King Henry VII , abbot John Islip and the monks of Westminster abbey , abbot John and the monastery of Our Lady of Grace beside the Tower (Eastminster) , and the mayor and commonalty of London .

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1172:

Good border.

Good initial. Imitation of Flemish ornament.

History

Origin: 1504 ; English

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, cols. 161–2

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 212