MS. Rawl. C. 889

Summary Catalogue no.: 12723

Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i+ 411+i fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 223 × 160 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 29 lines, column space 130–135 × 40 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. list, p. 105:

Penwork initials.

History

Origin: 1325 ; Italian (?)

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 (1970).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 463

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 222

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 677

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.

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