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MS. Rawl. C. 570

Summary Catalogue no.: 12415

Contents

Arator, Historia apostolica
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 38, pl. IV:

Fine initials (partly retouched (?)).

Diagram, fol. 1, added 11th century, second half (?).

History

Origin: 11th century, beginning; and 11th century, second half (?) ; English, Canterbury St. Augustine's

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Arator cum b" (s. xiii). Identifiable in the Catalogue by second folio. (MLGB3: evidence of dicta probatoria, usually a secundo folio).

Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725), no. 113. (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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 308
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 216

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Microfilm

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Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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