MS. Rawl. D. 338

Summary Catalogue no.: 13125

Jerome, De uiris illustribus

Language(s): Latin

Gennadius Massiliensis, De uiris illustribus

Language(s): Latin

Isidore, De uiris illustribus

Language(s): Latin

Cassiodorus, De institutionibus diuinarum scripturarum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 218)

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, Durham

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: At head of text in usual early 15th-cent. hand: "Jeronimus de illustribus viris cum aliis tractatibus. Liber bestiarum in fine. [This is now lost, or at least strayed, but survives in a copy of this MS. in Brussels]. E communi libraria monachorum Dunelm'." (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Somers and Jekyll 103. (MLGB3)

Mynors no. 126. (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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 1, cols. 171–2

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 231