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MS. Rawl. C. 446

Summary Catalogue no.: 12297

Contents

John Lydgate, Troy Book
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Partly defaced. Apparently deriving from the presentation copy.Pächt and Alexander iii. 943, pl. XC:

Fine miniatures.

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter ; 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, col. 232
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 213

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (7 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.