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MS. Rawl. C. 531

Summary Catalogue no.: 12378

Contents

1.
Augustine, Letters
Language(s): Latin
2.
Theological texts
Language(s): Latin
4.
Pelagius, Liber de uita christiana
Language(s): Latin
5.
Augustine, De agone christiano
Language(s): Latin
7.
Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio
Language(s): Latin
8.
Ps.-Augustine, De utilitate psalmorum
Language(s): Latin
9.
Bede, De schematibus et tropis
Language(s): Latin
10.
Prudentius, Psychomachia
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 503:

Historiated initial (unfinished).

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Crowland, Lincolnshire, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, St Bartholomew, and St Guthlac: 'liber Croylandie.' (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

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. 281–2
Quarto Catalogue, col. 283
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 215

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 275

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.