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MS. Rawl. D. 893

Summary Catalogue no.: 13659

Contents

Fragments: collection of MS fragments
Language(s): Latin, English, French, German

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniature on fol. 103, with a symbolical representation of alchemical processes; 15th century, third quarter, West German (P&A i. 173, pl. XII)

History

Origin: 8th century - 17th century

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 (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, cols. 75-6
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, cols. 77-8
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, cols. 79-80
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, cols. 81-2
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, cols. 83-4
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, cols. 85-6
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, col. 87
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 242

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image 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.