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

MS. Rawl. D. 483

Summary Catalogue no.: 13251

Contents

1.
Liber falconum
Rubric: Liber falconum, austurum et aliarum avium rapacium
Incipit: Falconum naturam, quam multi scire cupiunt, subtilius describere cupientes

An extract from Albertus Magnus, De animalibus (XXIV, c. 1-24(109); ed. H. Stadler, pp. 1453-1493.15), apparently with independent circulation; eTK 0549K

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols. 47v-48v)
Aegidius de Aquino, Liber avium viventium de rapina (Italian tr., cc. 38-46)
Incipit: Sono legerationi de li sparvieri x, e di tutti dircino per ordine
F. Capaccioni, ed., Egidio d’Aquino. Liber avium viventium de rapina, Textes vernaculaires du moyen âge, 7 (Brepols Publishers, 2012), sig. O2, with description of the manuscript at pp. 42-3.
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 48 + ii

Decoration

Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 117)

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; Italian, Bologna (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Arms of Hieronymus Rannucius (Girolamo Ranuzzi) of Bologna, probably the professor of philosophy (d. 1496), fol. i; his ex libris, fol. ii v.

Endleaves from a notarial register connected with the church of S. Michele de Sala, Bologna, including: part of notarial instrument concerning presentation of Bedexius filius Gulielmus de Sala to a canonry and prebend (naming “Franciscus de Intermontibus, capellanus ecclesie beate Marie Grannopot”); fragment of instruments relating to a loan of money to Bartholomæus quonam dominus Ardicionis de Custaganis, citizen of Bologna, by dom. Margarita daughter of dom. Bomboloquus de Pepolis, dated 1334.

Walter Clavell, MS. 22 quarto (Enright, 'Rawlinson', app. B).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description abbreviated (Oct. 2024) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 117
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)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-10: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.