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

MS. Rawl. C. 77

Summary Catalogue no.: 11942

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): The second folio is missing due to lost leaves at the front, but the manuscript is replete with notes in the hand of the St Augustine's monk, Clement Canterbury. Given by the monk John Pistor (s. xiii). (MLGB3: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

MS. Rawl. C. 77 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Bestiary (part)
Language(s): Latin
2.
Sermons.
Language(s): Latin
3.
Treatise on virtues and vices
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end

MS. Rawl. C. 77 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Sermons.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end

MS. Rawl. C. 77 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Letter on monastic reform
Language(s): Latin
2.
Matthieu de Vendôme, Aequivoca
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end

Additional Information

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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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