MS. Rawl. C. 57

Summary Catalogue no.: 11923

The Chastising of God's Children

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Sheen, Surrey, Charterhouse of Jesus of Bethlehem: 'Iste liber est domus Iesu de Bethleem ordinis Cartus. de Schen ex dono domini Iohannis Kyngeslow primi recluli eiusdem, cuius anime propitietur deus.' (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

? Gwalterus Remington on flyleaf (s. xvii?). (MLGB3)

Medieval binding. Faint trace of title on 2nd cover. Quires of 8. First signed 2ø, 2ø ii, 2ø iii, 2ø iiii, 4 blanks, second 3ø, 3ø ii, 3ø iii, 3ø iiii, 4 blanks, etc. (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 16

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 205