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

MS. Rawl. C. 939

Summary Catalogue no.: 12770

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Penwork.

History

Origin: 13th century, end (in part between 1288 and 1297) ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Osney, Oxfordshire, Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: Necrologium etc. of Oseney. See Salter, Oseney Cartulary, Oxford Historical Society, 1. xii–xxvii. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Clarendon, Libr. theol. 24 (Cat. MSS. H. t (?). 122). (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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