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MS. Rawl. C. 454

Summary Catalogue no.: 12305

Statutes of England.

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman

Legal formulary

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: x + 566 + v fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 118 × 70 mm.

Layout

1 col., 31-32 lines, 85 × 40 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 602, pl. LXI:

Good borders.

Good historiated initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter (c. 1342) ; 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. 239–40

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 241–2

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 213

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 671

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 145

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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