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MS. Rawl. C. 83

Summary Catalogue no.: 11948

Contents

Ps.-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum (English translation of the Latin version by John of Seville, Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum de regimine sanitatis)
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1158:

Historiated initial.

Penwork interlace flourishes. Written by Wilhelmus Ma...g, fol. 8v and monogram, fol. 1v.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

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. 26
Quarto Catalogue, col. 27
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 206

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.