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MS. Rawl. C. 537

Summary Catalogue no.: 12384

Contents

Guillaume de Lorris; Jean de Meung, Roman de la rose
Explicit: A tant fint ior et ie mesvoille
Final rubric: Explicit li Romanz de la rose
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 139 leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 130 mm.
Foliation: Modern foliation.

Collation

1–5(8); 6(4); 7–17(8); 18(7). Some quire signatures.

Layout

145 × 100 mm. 0

Hand(s)

A somewhat rounded Northern Textualis in dark brown and black ink.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red and black ink present on fols. 65r–68r.

Drawings of leaves, birds, and faces present on fols. 65r–68r.

Simple initials present throughout.

Rubrication present throughout.

Marginal annotations in a variety of hands found on fols. 39v, 45r, 45v, 48r, and 104v.

Accompanying Material

Pressed flower included between fols. 102v–103r.

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

“Ce livre est a maistre Robert du Val, presbytere, bacheleur en theol., natif de Rouen.”

“Ce livre me couste la somme de dixhuict livres et... huict deniers, a Paris, 1570.”

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

MS. Rawl. C. 537 - endleaves

Contents

Gospel of St John, with gloss
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 168–180 × 118–125 mm.

History

Origin: 12th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted 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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 289
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 215

2025-06-12: Additional data collected by Holly Rowe and Julia Lorenz as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 12th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 3rd July 2025.

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-06-12: Additional data collected by Holly Rowe and Julia Lorenz as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 12th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 3rd July 2025.