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

MS. Rawl. D. 338

Summary Catalogue no.: 13125

Contents

1.
Jerome, De uiris illustribus
Language(s): Latin
3.
Isidore, De uiris illustribus
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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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