MS. Rawl. D. 893
Summary Catalogue no.: 13659
Guardbook of manuscript fragments
Contents
Language(s): Latin, English, Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Middle High German
Physical Description
Decoration
Fine miniature on fol. 103, with a symbolical representation of alchemical processes; 15th century, third quarter, West German (Pächt and Alexander i. 173, pl. XII)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Fols. 19-26, 105, 106, 113: Bardney, Lincolnshire, Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Oswald: The manuscript contains an account of a visit of King Henry IV to Bardney in 1412. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
Fols. 1-2: a letter from Robert New offering a collection of fragments formerly owned by Peter Le Neve, addressed to ‘Mr Thomas Hearne at Edmund Hall Oxon’: 'Sir Knowing your affection for Old Manuscripts I desire you will please to accept of the Parcell I herewith send you which were part of the Collection of the late Mr Le Neve Norroy King at Arms ...'; dated Middle Temple 28th April 1731.
Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725) Richard Rawlinson (1690–1755) (MLGB3)
Bodleian Library, MSS Rawlinson C.504, C.510, and D.893 fols. 19–26, 105–106, 113, formed one volume. (MLGB3)
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
MS. Rawl. D. 893 – fols 3–16
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Table of hours of the day and night for each month
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
155 × 106 mm. Tables of 28–29 cols, 33–40 lines, with ink ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis.
Decoration
Red rubrics and individual figures.
History
MS. Rawl. D. 893 – fols 17–18
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fragments of book VI, chapters 10–11 (fol. 17r) and chapters 13–14 (fol. 17v); book VII, chapters 5–6 (fol. 18r) and chapters 7–8 (fol. 18v).
Cf. Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden monachi Cestrensis, ed. by Churchill Babington and Joseph Rawson Lumby (London, 1865–86), vol. 7.Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
At least 1 col., 29 lines, with ink ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis rotunda.
Decoration
Flourished 3-line blue initials, as well as red and blue paraphs.
Embellished ruling surrounding the catchword in the lower margin of fol. 18v.
History
MS. Rawl. D. 893 – fols 19–26
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Chapters 50–73
Physical Description
Layout
103 × 63 mm. 1 col., 11–12 lines, with leadpoint ruling and written below topline.
Hand(s)
Protogothic.
Decoration
2-line red initials accompanying rubrication.
Rubricated running head: ‘Regula sancti benedicti’.
History
Provenance
Bardney, Lincolnshire, Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Oswald: fols 19–26, 105, 106 and 113 once formed one volume with MSS Rawl. C. 504 and C. 510. The manuscript contains an account of a visit of King Henry IV to Bardney in 1412. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
MS. Rawl. D. 893 – fols 27–28
Contents
Language(s): Latin
§§178–181 (fol. 27r), 183–186 (fol. 27v), 206–208 (fol. 28r).
Discussed in Julia C. Crick, The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, III: A Summary Catalogue of Manuscripts (Cambridge, 1989), item 157, pp. 247–48.Physical Description
Condition
Layout
1 col., at least 35 lines.
Hand(s)
Protogothic.
Decoration
7-line plain initial on fol. 27r.
Spaces left empty for 1-line initials.
A 14th-century anglicana hand adds a section of the Prophetiae Merlini (HRB §§111–112) on fol. 28v. The text is now very faded and largely illegible.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-09: Michael Angerer: new descriptions of fols 1–28.