MS. Rawl. C. 697

Summary Catalogue no.: 12541

Aldhelm, works

Language(s): Latin with Old English

Prudentius, Psychomachia

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 11th century, beginning

Provenance and Acquisition

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Liber sancti Eadmundi regis et martiris'. 'A.119'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Sum liber J.B.' (fol. 2r, ?s. xvii); cf. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, 154, also from Bury. (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, cols. 351–2

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 218