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MS. Rawl. D. 874

Summary Catalogue no.: 13641

Contents

1.
La Queste del saint Graal

Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, ‘Another Manuscript of the Post-Vulgate Queste: MS. Rawlinson D. 874’, Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society, 37 (1985), pp. 292–98, showed that the text is a copy of the so-called 'post-Vulgate' quest with interpolations from the Prose Tristran.

Language(s): Old French
1.
Mort Artu
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 204

Fine historiated initial (defaced).

Other initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

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 (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, col. 54
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, col. 55
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 242

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.