MS. Rawl. C. 428

Summary Catalogue no.: 12280

Liber sextus Decretalium

Language(s): Latin

Decretals of Boniface VIII and Clement V

Language(s): Latin

Sermon

Language(s): Latin

Constitutiones Clementinae

Language(s): Latin

Constitutions of English church councils, 1075–1342

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 601:

Good penwork border, initial.

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Worcester, Worcestershire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber [sancte Marie Wigorn'] per fratrem Henricum Fouke monachum eiusdem loci" (fol. [ii] verso), s. xiv in. The place name is only visible by u. v. light. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Thomas Tanner (see Wilkins, Concilia, 1. 665). (MLGB3)

Much of the contents closely related to Lambeth 171. Fouke gave a number of MSS. now at Worcester. Title "Liber constitutionum" and note of Lanfrancis constitutions in red pencil on flyleaf (s. xvi: Parkerian), see also fol. iii recto: old boards, recovered. Medieval foliation. (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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 217–8

Quarto Catalogue, col. 219

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 213