MS. Rawl. C. 941

Summary Catalogue no.: 12772

Mirror of Our Lady. (part 2; part 1 is Aberdeen University Library MS 134)

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Syon, Middlesex, Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget: Written in the use of the nuns of Sion. 'E.M.', which stands for Elizabeth Monton: see Aberdeen, UL, MS. 134. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Humphrey Wanley. Wylliam Cudde. Jo. Murray. (MLGB3)

Bodleian, Rawl. C.941 is the second part of Aberdeen, UL, 134. 'Of charite prayeth for the wreched servaunt Robert T. wryter of this book' (ad fin., in the same hand as the rest of the book). A modern hand has pencilled 'Tailour' below. The sections of the work are marked by parchment tags projecting from the side, as in Bodley 630, a Sion book. The binding is a fine blind-stamped one by h. I. [Iacobi ? c.1530]. (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).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 511–2

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 223