A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Rawl. C. 76

Summary Catalogue no.: 11941

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 243)

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Hereford, Herefordshire, Cathedral church of St Ethelbert (?) : "This book belongs to the Library of the Cathedrall church of Hereford. Deliver it to the custos thereof, to be restored to the sayd library", on the outside of the front cover (s. xvi 2 ). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Tho. Hearne. Bought of Fletcher, Oxford bookseller, Aug. 19, 1731. (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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