MS. Rawl. D. 913
Summary Catalogue no.: 13679
Guardbook of fragments
Contents
Fragments: collection of English and French verse and prose.
Physical Description
Binding
Nineteenth century half leather binding.
Front board is loose from the book block; front endpaper fully torn off.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
A miscelleous group of fragments from the collection of Richard Rawlinson, bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755 along with the rest of his collection. Several have come via the libraries of Thomas Hearne and John Bagford; see individual item decriptsions for details.
Some have been extracted from the bindings of other items in the Rawlinson collection, although there is no longer a record of their host manuscripts.
Codex in current form dates to c.1861. Bound under Macray's direction.
Formerly at the shelfmark 'Rawlinson Misc 1370'. Note that the Quarto Catalogue erroneously numbers it as 'Misc 1390'.
As well as the present shelfmark, the front board bears the following inscriptions: "This may perhaps be placed as Rawl. D. 913 which is vacant, the vol. formerly there having been moved to Rawl. D. 400". "Poetry"; "MS. Rawl.s Misc. 1262 1370"; "1370" These last three have been struck out.
Contents
Language(s): Middle English with some French
Selection of short anonymous verses. See Wilson (1952), Dronke (1961), Hirsh (2014), and especially Burrow (1984) for discussion and edition.
Contents include DIMEV record numbers: 4162, 5301, 2171, 3684, 1647, 3328, 6222, 351, 327, and 6834.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
Single column of text, 41 lines on recto, 8 lines on verso. Individual texts arranged in paragraphs, without breaks between lines of verse. Written area 257 × 80 mm.
Hand(s)
Anglicana. Carefully written, regular letter forms.
History
Provenance
Original format of leaf unclear; may have been roll or separate leaf.
MS Rawl D. 913 fols. 2-3
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Text from Book 1 of Lydgate's Troy Book (DIMEV 3995), Fol. 1r-v ll.623-702. Fol. 2r-v ll.460-567 as printed in H. Bergen Lydgate's Troy Book : A.D. 1412-20 (1906)
Physical Description
Layout
One column per side, 38-40 lines. Written space 222 × 64–91 mm.
Hand(s)
Secretary Hand
Decoration
Seven line tall initial 'T' in gold on folio 2r. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1083, pl. C)
Simple strapwork initials highlighted in red at beginning of each other page
Decorated descenders in final lines of each page
History
Provenance
Formerly part of a codex. Leaves foliated 3-12 bound in Rawlinson Poet 223. Folios 17 onwards preserved in Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 110. For notes on foliation, see Mooney (2001).
MS Rawl D. 913 fol.4
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Text from Part One of Robert Mannyng's Chronicle (DIMEV 3253), also called 'The Story of England'. Fol. 4r: ll.12550-12613. Fol. 4v: ll.12614-12699 as printed in I. Sullens, "The Chronicle of Robert Mannyng of Brunne" (1996)
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
Two columns per side, columns 46 lines of text on recto side, 45 on verso. On both sides, the word 'Arthurus' is written in red in the upper margin. Written space: 260 × 155–185 mm.
Hand(s)
Anglicana
Decoration
Each section is introduced with a two-line tall initial in blue ink decorated with red pen flourishing.
Sections divided with rubricated Latin headings
Marginalia in English, upper margin of verso side. "O man what arte thow that de[spu]test | wyth god Romaynes ye nynth", followed by "delyuered to thomas woulse ix platt[ers?] | ix dishes iiij sawseres upon new3eres day".
Marginalia written vertically in left, central and right margin of verso side. Three variations on the same phrase: "St Ambros in his ixth chapter of his worke intituled de his qui misteris initianter [sic initiantur]".
Both sets of marginalia presumably from when leaf was pasted down in another codex.
History
Provenance
Fragment of same codex survives, also as a pastedown ; see Merton College MS 23.b.6 and Davies (1969) pp.51-2. Text in the Merton Fragment is from Part 2 of the Chronicle (Recto: ll.3779-3810. Verso: ll.3737-3768). The original complete form of this text can be associated with 'P' Text of the Chronicle contained in Inner Temple Petyt MS 511, Vol. 7 (See Sullens 1996)
Fragment in the Merton codex appears in Ker's "Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings" as no.919, erroneously identified as a fragment of 'Richard Coer de Lyon'. See Davies (1969) for further discussion.
MS Rawl D. 913 fol.5
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Single leaf containing verses dedicating a book to an unnamed Earl of Surrey. Text not present in DIMEV or Folger First Line Index. Partial transcription provided in Quarto Catalogue. Cataloguer identifies Henry Howard (1516/17–1547) as the Earl in question. On verso side: 'du[m] sumus in mu[n]do vivamus corde iocu[n]do'. Proverb of unclear origin.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
Single column with at least 22 lines of text, not all of them legible. Arranged in 2 stanzas [7 lines, 10 lines] with additional lines above and below that are now largely too faint to read. 153 × 95 mm.
Hand(s)
Letter forms mostly Secretary.
History
Provenance
Ruling similar to fol. 6. Both leaves have similar stains and circular warping. May have some shared origin.
MS Rawl D. 913 fol.6
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
'O painful heart in pains sight' (DIMEV 4022). 2 stanzas, 4 lines each. See Frankis (1955)
'Let love to love go kindly and soft' (DIMEV 3057). 7 stanzas, 4 lines each. See Frankis (1955)
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
Single column of text. Both texts arranged in stanzas of 4 lines, 7 on recto and 3 on verso. 208 × 77–124 mm.
Hand(s)
First hand has a reaonably careful appearance with many long, looped ascenders and descenders. Aspect of second hand is bold but rather scribbled. Mixed Secretary and Anglicana features in both.
History
Provenance
Ruling similar to fol. 5. Both leaves have similar stains and circular warping. May have some shared origin.
MS Rawl D. 913 fols.7-8
Contents
Language(s): Macaronic Middle English and Latin.
Metrical paraphrase of the Creed in Middle English with Latin phrases interspersed (DIMEV 2139). Latin quotations taken from Apostles' Creed, Athanasian Creed, the Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, and partly from scripture.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
Text in single column, with 23-24 lines per side. Fol. 8v contains only 17 lines before the text finishes. Written space 151 × 70–115 mm.
Hand(s)
Mix of Anglicana and Secretary forms.
History
MS Rawl D. 913 fol.9
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Text from Book 7 of The Prick of Conscience (DIMEV 5398). Fol.9r ll.1661-1686, Fol.9v ll.1687-1717 as printed in J. H. Morey's edition (2012)
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
One column per side, 31 lines each. Written space 170 × 59–91 mm.
Hand(s)
Anglicana; reasonably formal but with some Secretary features.
Decoration
Two line tall initial 'N' in blue with red penwork flourishes, four lines from the bottom of verso side. Very faded.
First letter of each line is tipped with red ink.
Single line of Latin written in red ink.
History
Provenance
Fol.62 of this volume also contains text from 'The Prick of Conscience', however these fragments are clearly of different origin.
MS Rawl D. 913 fols.10-21
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
The instructional treatise known as Sacerdos Parochialis, in seven chapters. Edition of text can be found in Pattwell (2004), pp.261-283, and discussion on pp.xlvii-xlix.
Physical Description
Layout
Single column of text with 34 written lines per side. 198 × 140 mm.
Hand(s)
Anglicana with secretary features.
Decoration
First initial 'I' is four lines tall in blue ink with red pen flourishing.
Many further initials throughout the text in same style, each two lines tall.
Blue section dividers used throughout.
Consistent use of underlining and rubrication. especially at the beginning and ends of sections.
After the final line, a smaller, less formal hand has added 'one synnes hastely but one p[re]somptuously truste on m[er]cy of god. þis is baskerfeld[?]'
Final leaf of the fragment bears the inscription 'Itm for as much as I have payed'. Highly calligraphic execution.
History
MS Rawl D. 913 fols.22-42
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe. Complete text containing introduction and two chapters.
Physical Description
Layout
Text arranged in single column, 35 lines per side. Written space 151 × 106 mm. Large spaces left between sections of text for diagrams.
Hand(s)
Bastard Anglicana. See Late Medieval English Scribes description.
Decoration
Five line tall initial 'L' at start of text on folio 23r. Blue and red square backing with gold illumination on letter and foliage border designs. See(Pächt and Alexander iii. 866)
Blue initials with red pen-work designs at section headings throughout. See in particular fol. 38v.
Simple line fillers in black ink used at the end of sections.
Supplementary diagrams supplied on fols. 24v, 25v, 26v, 27v, 28r, and 29r.
History
MS Rawl D. 913 fol.43
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Prose Romance of Merlin. See Wheatly and Mead's 1965-9 EETS edition. Recto side contains text from p.315 (l.15) to p.316 (l.17); verso contains text from p.316 (l.17) to p.317 (l.24).
Physical Description
Layout
Two columns per side, 37 lines each. Written space 290 × 170 mm.
Hand(s)
Hybrid Anglicana with Secretary features
Doyle (1959) and later Mooney (2000) attribute this manuscript to the Hammond Scribe.
Decoration
Three line tall blue initial 'W' in lower quater of first column on verso side. Decorated with red pen work that extends up and down the margins.
History
Provenance
See Doyle (1959) pp.433-4 and Mooney (2000) p.114 on this manuscript's attribution to the Hammond Scribe
MS Rawl. D. 913 fols.44-51
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Contains the Ordinances of the Guild of St George, along with the names of members of the guild. For edition of this manuscript, See Smith (1870) pp.443-460.
Physical Description
Layout
Text arranged in two columns. Vertical margins ruled, but not individual lines. Approx. 36 lines per column, but actual number varies owing to variation in height of the letters and size of breaks between paragraphs. 245 × 160–184 mm.
Hand(s)
Secretary.
Majority of text written by one scribe; seems to have left spaces at the beginning of paragraphs for another scribe to add a more calligraphic initial, but not all spaces have been filled in. A second scribe (or possibly the same one at a later date) has made some additions to the text, noticable as the ink is darker and the letters are smaller
Decoration
Calligraphic initials inserted at the beginning of paragraphs (mostly 'A's for 'Also) - incomplete.
Tall and sometimes clubbed ascenders in the top lines.
History
MS Rawl D. 913 fols.52-53
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Folios of a recipe book containing instructions for various dishes. Nearly all these recipies have counterparts transcribed in Austin 'Two fifteenth-century cookery books' (1888).
Text very close to recipe of the same contained in MS Douce 55. See Austin p.117.
Similar to recipe of the same in BL MS Harley 279. See Austin p.25.
Similar to recipe of the same in BL MS Harley 279. See Austin p.44.
Similar to recipes of the same in BL MS Harley 279 and Harley 4016. See Austin p.50 and p.74.
Simialr to recipe of the same in BL MS Harley 4016. See Austin p.81.
Physical Description
Layout
One column per side; no ruling apparent and number of lines varies. 26-30 lines per side. 148 × 102 mm.
Hand(s)
Secretary; informally written and heavily abbreviated. Quite bold aspect.
History
MS Rawlinson D. 913 fol.54
Contents
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
Section of the medieval Latin glossary known as the 'Medulla grammaticae', covering part of 'I' from 'Ingredior' to 'Interpretor'. For the text, see McCarren's edition of letters G H I and K in Stonyhurt College MS 15 (2019), pp.31-34. Note that there are many variations between different manuscripts of the Medulla.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
Two columns per side, 45 lines each. Written space 228 × 153 mm.
Hand(s)
Anglicana Formata
History
MS Rawl D. 913 fols.55-60
Contents
Language(s): Starts in Latin and changes to Middle English on fol.56v; original codex is mostly in Latin.
Chronicle of London containing details of events in 1460. Latin text of the Chronicle is written in red, with the English text of the articles of accord in recognistion of the right of succession of the duke of York (Oct 1460) is in black.
Physical Description
Layout
Single columns with 32 lines each. Written space 133 × 75 mm.
Hand(s)
Hybrid forms; mostly secretary.
Decoration
Latin text written in red ink; English in black.
Space left for a decorated 'B' on fol.55v that has not been filled in.
Two decorated capital 'I's in English section of the text, rendered in a simple style. Four lines tall in black ink and tipped with red.
Blue section markers divide up Latin text.
Red section markers divide up the English text.
History
Provenance
Formerly part of MS. Rawlinson B. 355, containing various works relating to the history of London in the fifteenth century.
MS Rawl D. 913 fol.61
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
See Hanna (1987) pp.436-442 for edition. The front of the recto (outer) side (i.e. the first lines visible on the fragment) begins with the closing lines of the text (ll.114-116). The legible text from the inner (verso) side of the leaf includes ll.20-30 and ll.51-60. Rear side of the outer (recto) side contains ll.82-93.
Text begins with the illuminated 'G', five lines down on the recto side of the fragment. The preceeding five lines are from the Machari text. For edition, see Horstmann (1851) pp.122-3, there erroneously attributed to Richard Rolle and given the title "Against Boasting and Pride".
Physical Description
Condition
Leaf has been cut in half, with only the lower part remaning. This half-leaf has been inserted into the guardbook folded in half, so 'recto' side makes up the outer pages, with the 'verso' as the inner sides.
Patches of faded ink and staining (possibly from water exposure) means legibility is patchy. Extent of fading may suggest folio has been used as some kind of wrapper; signs of adhesive in places but pattern does not immediately suggest use as a pastedown. Traces of paper and dark black ink on the verso (inner) side.
Parchment has several very small holes.
Layout
Written space 110 × 120 mm.
Hand(s)
Anglicana with some Secretary features.
Decoration
Illuminated 'G' five lines down on recto side; gold badly flaked leaving only trace remnants. Initial decorated with red and blue background and gold foliate designs that extend into the margins.
History
Provenance
Inscription: "An old fragment about the danger of Pride". Quarto catalogue attributes the inscription to Thomas Hearne.
MS Rawl. D. 913 fol.62
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Text from Book 6 of The Prick of Conscience (DIMEV 5398). Fol.6r contains ll.96-121 and ll.126-142; Fol.6v contains ll.158-177 and ll.66-91 as printed in J. H. Morey's edition (2012)
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
One column per side; currently 23-26 lines per column, although originally 30 lines per side. Written space 110 × 120 mm.
Hand(s)
Anglicana
Decoration
Ascenders in the first lines (visible on recto side, but not verso) are roughly three times taller than other characters.
Red square brackets used to mark rhyming couplets.
History
Provenance
Inscription:"This Fragment about Hell, I had of Mr. Bagford". Quarto catalogue attributes the inscription to Thomas Hearne. Refers to the antiquarian John Bagford [1650-1716].
MS Rawl D. 913 fol.63
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Eight stanzas from Hoccleve's 'Regiment of Primces' (DIMEV 3581). Recto side contains ll.2184-2211; verso contains ll.2219-2245, as printed in Blyth's 1999 edition. Stanza in the middle (ll.2212-18) is absent in this text.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
One column per side, 28 lines (four rhyme-royal stanzas) each. Text is continuous with no line breaks between stanzas. Written space 150 × 59–81 mm.
Hand(s)
Mixed Anglicana and Secretary features. See Late Medieval English Scribes description.
Decoration
First letter of each line is tipped with red.
Initial 'L' in first line of verso side three lines tall with small embellishments in black ink.
History
Provenance
Inscription:"About a King’s Coronation Oath. This Fragment I had of Mr. Bagford". Quarto catalogue attributes the inscription to Thomas Hearne. Refers to the antiquarian John Bagford [1650-1716].
Of common origin with London, BL MS. Harley 5977 (See Green 1978)
MS. Rawl D. 913 fols.64-65
Contents
Language(s): Early Modern English
The first of a series of prayers for different occasions.
Quarto Catalogue adds the expansion "[apud Cantabr.]" to the title.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
One column per side, maximum 33 lines per side. Written space 237 × 146 mm.
Hand(s)
Secretary. Quickly and informally written.
History
MS Rawl D 913 fols.66-67
Contents
Language(s): Middle English
Record of malt delivered to various persons between November 1493 and January 1495.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
One column per side, 18-33 lines. Written space 250–259 × 160–165 mm.
Hand(s)
Mix of Anglicana and Secretary forms.
History
MS Rawl D. 913 fols.68-82
Contents
Language(s): Early Modern English
First letter from Stephen Powle (c. 1553–1630) to his father, Thomas Powle (1514–1601), concerning the former's desire to quit the study of law to pursue divinity.
Second letter from Stephen Powle to his father on the same subject.
From Stephen Powle to a Mr. William Reed, regarding the credit of a Mr. Buttes.
From Mr. William Reed to Stephen Powle in response to the above.
Love letter to ‘Ms. Audrey Butte’ signed ‘I.B.’; Stern believes this letter was written by Powle on behalf of James 'Buttes', a servant previously in the employ of the Buttes of Thornage, Norfolk. A later letter identifies James Buttes as a "little blacke man whose chamber is in the same coort that I [Powle] lodged in". The recipient is apparently a young lady named Audrey, still employed at Thornage. See Stern (1992) p.33.
In response to the above.
From Stephen Powle to one Mr. Hopkins, thanking him for providing a commendation and expressing his desire that Hopkins would write to him more frequently.
From Stephen Powle to his cousin, Tho[mas] Rooper, offering Rooper advice and assistance.
From Tho[mas] Rooper to Stephen Powle, informing him that he is unable to pay back money he has borrowed.
Tho[mas] Rooper's response to Powle's above letter dated 25th May 1579.
Concerning the union of James and Audrey Buttes. Unclear if this was written on behalf of James Buttes, or was sent by Stephen himself.
Letter unsigned and with ambiguous recipient. Possibly another written on James' behalf, intended for Audrey.
Third letter from Stephen Powle to his father, Thomas Powle, concerning the former's desire to quit the study of law to pursue divinity.
Concerning correspondance between Powle and his father.
Note describing letters sent to Mr Hopkins and Mr. Dethick making arrangements for travel to Geneva.
From Stephen Powle to Sir Thomas Bromley (c. 1530–1587), asking Bromley to intercede with Powle's father concerning Powle's desire to study in Geneva.
Notes describing two letters to Mr. Dethick concerning travel arrangements to Geneva, 1 Aug. and 20 Nov.
List of letters sent in December and January 1579, with the names of courriers that sent them.
Concerning details of Powle's travel arrangement in Paris and Geneva.
Containing an account of Powle's journey to Paris.
Concerning Powle's travel arrangements. Mr. Bodley identified as "the merchaunt [tha]t dwelleth in Maiden Lane" in Powle's previous letter to Mr. Wheeler.
Concerning Powle's stay in Paris.
Concerning a gift of books from Powle to Bromley.
Concerning Powle's stay in Paris.
In which Powle expresses concern that he has not received any correspondance while in Paris.
Concerning various business matters, including dealings with his father and money owed by James Buttes.
Note describing a letter sent from S. Powle to Mr. Bodley on the 18th January, on the same subject the above letter to Mr. Angelo.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
One column per side, usually 45-50 lines long. Letters vary in length.
Hand(s)
Mostly written in a late 16th century Secretary Hand, with occasional additions by Powle himself in a more formal script.
History
Provenance
Part of a commonplace book belonging to Stephen Powle (c. 1553–1630), largely written during his time at Middle Temple. Several other of Powle's manuscripts survive, many of which are now part of the Bodleian's Tanner collection (See Stern 1992, Appendix A for full details). In particular, MS Tanner 309 contains duplicates of three of Powle's letters to his father contained in this fragment.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fols 83–84
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Lines 7029–7148 and 7391–7510
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
166 × 127 mm. 2 cols, 30 lines, with very faint leadpoint ruling, written above topline.
Hand(s)
Protogothic.
Decoration
2-line red initials and rubricated running heads.
Various later annotations, mainly illegible, of the 15th or 16th centuries.
History
Provenance
On fol. 83r a very faded annotation in the upper margin seems to read ‘De astrolabio’. The dimensions of the bifolium match those of the leaves of Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe on fols 23–42, for which it could have served as a wrapper.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 85
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
The last 32 lines of an otherwise unknown Anglo-Norman poem on infernal punishment in alexandrine couplets (Dean no. 600).
Lines 1–311
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
245 × 156 mm. 2 cols, 51–52 lines, with very faint leadpoint ruling, written above topine.
Hand(s)
Protogothic. 3 different hands, with one hand responsible for the end of the poem on infernal punishment on fol. 85ra, a second hand beginning the Voyage de saint Brendan on fol. 85rb–va, and a third, smaller hand continuing on fol. 85va–vb. The Voyage de saint Brendan is lineated as one couplet per line, with a punctus elevatus marking the end of a verse and a punctus marking the end of a couplet.
Decoration
2-line red initial to mark the beginning of the Voyage de saint Brendan.
History
Provenance
Former pastedown leaf.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fols 86–89
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Lines 8486–8518, 8526–8558, 8567–8605, 8614–8651 (fol. 86); 8892–8940, 8948–8978, 8987–9020, 9027–9060 (fol. 87); 11084–11119, 11209–11252 (fol. 88); 11265–11299, 11389–11421 (fol. 89)
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
2 cols, at least 34 lines, with faint leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis rotunda. Every verse line is marked with a punctus.
Decoration
2- and 3-line red and blue initials.
History
Provenance
Canterbury, Kent, Franciscan convent: ‘Hoc volumen conceditur ad vsum fratrum minorum de observantia cantuarie’, 15th century (second half), fol. 87v. An inscription of the same form is also found in London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1483.5, a printed book. (MLGB3)
Formerly MS. Rawl. poet. 137, fols 42–45. It is argued in MLGB3 that the bifolia were used as pastedown leaves in the binding of MS. Rawl. poet. 137 itself, although this assertion is doubtful. (MLGB3)
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 90
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Lines 323–476
Edited (MS C) in Hue de Rotelande, Protheselaus, ed. by Anthony J. Holden (London, 1991–93).Physical Description
Condition
Layout
224 × 153 mm. 2 cols, 40 lines, with very faint leadpoint ruling, written below topline.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis rotunda.
Decoration
Spaces left empty for 1- and 3-line initials.
History
Provenance
Probably once part of the same manuscript as fol. 91, and subsequently used as a pastedown in the same binding.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 91
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Lines 10173–10332
Edited (MS C) in Hue de Rotelande, Ipomedon, ed. by Anthony J. Holden (Paris, 1979).Physical Description
Condition
Layout
224 × 151 mm. 2 cols, 40 lines, with very faint leadpoint ruling, written below topline.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis rotunda.
Decoration
Spaces left empty for 3-, 4- and 8-line initials.
History
Provenance
‘William’, ‘William Redman’, ‘Hardress’, in the outer margin of fol. 91r: probably William Redman, d. 1602, Rector of Upper Hardres, Kent, from 1578 to 1594 and later Bishop of Norwich. (ODNB)
A later hand adds a largely illegible inscription ending on ‘Leadsham his book’ in the upper margin.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 92
Contents
Language(s): Old French
Lines 4346–4364, 4453–4471
Physical Description
Layout
Upper inner quarter of the leaf: 1 col., 19 lines, with leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis quadrata.
Decoration
Rubricated letters at the beginning of almost every verse line.
A largely illegible annotation is added in the margin of fol. 92v.
History
Provenance
‘Fragmentum in quo mentio de Cassibellano’, fol. 92v: added by Thomas Hearne, 1678–1735, according to the Quarto Catalogue.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 93
Contents
Language(s): Old French
Lines 11721–11890
Cf. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose, ed. by Félix Lecoy (Paris, 1965–70).Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
Originally 3 cols (as suggested by the gap of 43 lines between the last legible line and the catchword), 2 cols extant, 42–43 lines, with leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis rotunda, but with frequent single-compartment a.
Decoration
2-line red and blue initials.
Rubricated letters at the beginning of every line, and a rubricated verse line serving as a catchword in the lower margin of fol. 93r.
History
Provenance
Taken from MS. Rawl. poet. 162.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fols 94–97
Contents
Language(s): Old French
Lines 646–682, 753–792 (fol. 94a); 696–722, 725–751 (fol. 94b); 1587–1613, 1692–1720 (fol. 95a); 1629–1653, 1668–1690 (fol. 95b), 3922–3951, 4029–4057 (fol. 96a); 3952–3991, 3992–4028 (fol. 96b); 12036–12075, 12140–12177 (fol. 97a); 12093–12113, 12121–12139 (fol. 97b)
Cf. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose, ed. by Félix Lecoy (Paris, 1965–70).Physical Description
Layout
Originally 2 cols (now separated into fragments of 1 col.), 40 lines, with ink ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis rotunda.
Decoration
Decorated 2- and 4-line gold initials, accompanied by rubrics. (Pächt and Alexander i. 600)
An anglicana hand of the 15th century adds line 792 at the bottom of fol. 94av.
History
Provenance
Provenance prior to Rawlinson unknown.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 98
Contents
Language(s): Middle Dutch
Part III, book I, chapter xxxiii, line 94–chapter xxxiv, line 95 (Malchus and Jerome)
Cf. Jacob van Maerlant, Spiegel historiael, ed. by M. de Vries and E. Verwijs (Leiden, 1863).Physical Description
Layout
215 × 137 mm. 2 cols, 39 lines, with leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis rotunda.
Decoration
2-line red initial, following the rubric announcing the chapter on Jerome.
History
Provenance
Former endleaf.
‘Knyvett’, along with the motto ‘Manet alta mente repostum’, fol. 98r: in the hand of Sir Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe, c.1539–1618.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 99
Contents
Lost from the volume.
Language(s): Old French
Edmund Stengel noted the existence of this item in 1882 and transcribed the rubric ‘Chy s’ensieult che que on doibt dire quant aucune creature gist en son lit mortel et en son derrain extremtei’; its loss was already noted by the Quarto Catalogue in 1898.
See E. Stengel, ‘Hs. Rawlinson Miscellanea 1370 alt 1262’, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 6 (1882), 390–96 (p. 392).Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
History
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 100
Contents
Language(s): Old French
Fragment of an otherwise unknown prose treatise on the degrees of wisdom and on repentance. A section begins 'La .vj. degre. ⟨L⟩i siesime de gre de proesce e⟨st⟩ apelee magnificence
Physical Description
Layout
At least 1 col., at least 31 lines, with very faint leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis semiquadrata.
Decoration
Spaces left empty for 2-line initials.
Rubric reading ‘La .vi. degre.’ on fol. 100r, as well as rubricated letters at the beginning of sentences.
An 18th-century hand notes ‘Vertue and Xtian magnificence’ in the margin of fol. 100v.
History
Provenance
Provenance prior to Rawlinson unknown.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 101
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Book I, chapter 24 (De Apels de Homicides)
Cf. Britton, ed. by F. M. Nichols (Oxford, 1865), pp. 109–14.Physical Description
Condition
Layout
1 col., at least 35 lines, with faint leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Anglicana.
Decoration
Flourished 3-line red initial on fol. 101r.
Marginal annotations in the scribal hand. A later hand adds what appears to be ‘goflid’ in the inner margin of fol. 101r.
History
Provenance
Formerly used in a binding.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fol. 102
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Fragment of an unidentified (perhaps otherwise unknown) year book, connected by the Quarto Catalogue to the year book fragments on fols 106–11 but not obviously part of the same volume. One case relates to 'lay de marche' and in another 'Edward Charles' is a party.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
1 col., at least 31 lines, unruled.
Hand(s)
Anglicana.
History
Provenance
Formerly used in a binding.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fols 103–105
Contents
Language(s): Old French
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
199 × 125 mm. 1 col., 28 lines, with leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Anglicana.
Decoration
Spaces left empty for illustrations and 2-line initials.
Rubrics: ‘Conment alixandres renuoie a d…’ (fol. 103r); ‘…alixandres li roys trouua sa mere …’ (fol. 103v); ‘Conment chiaus qui estoient ou lieu de dayres li manderent le respons des lettres conment alixandres auoit destruite sa prouince’ (fol. 105r).
Various later scribbles and annotations in the margins and between sections of the text, partly upside-down and frequently illegible. On fol. 103, the annotations predate the trimming of the leaf.
History
Provenance
Formerly used as pastedowns in a schoolbook at Magdalen College School.
‘Thomas Grey’, ‘Ricardus Grey’, ‘Jhon Grey’, ‘Antony Grey’, fol. 104r: probably Thomas Grey, 1477–1530, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, who from 1495 was educated at Magdalen College School together with his brothers. (ODNB)
On fol. 105v is scribbled a letter from the schoolboy ‘Robert Yall’ to his master, beginning: ‘Master Mullysworth I wold pray and beseytt yow that yow wold be my good master’. Dated between c.1504 and 1509 and transcribed in Nicholas Orme, Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480–1540 (Oxford, 1998), p. 76.
‘2196, Disp. 46’, fol. 104v: added by Thomas Hearne, 1678–1735, according to the Quarto Catalogue, in reference to his early printed copy of the Historia preliis, now Auct. 2Q 4.7(1), although it is not clear that this is the volume in which these leaves served as pastedowns.
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fols 106–111
Contents
Language(s): Anglo-Norman and Latin
Fragments of year books for Edward I and Edward II, dated to regnal year 29 (probably Edw I, 1301) on fol. 108r and regnal year 4 (probably Edw II, 1311) on fol. 111v.
See J. H. Baker, English Legal Manuscripts, Vol. II (Zug, 1978), p. 183.Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
1 col., 25–56 lines, largely unruled.
Hand(s)
Anglicana. 2 distinct hands: the first is responsible for fol. 106r and fols 108–109, the second for fols 106v–107 and fols 110–111.
Marginal annotations in the scribal hand. A later hand adds what appears to be ‘29 E. 1 Bastard 27’ in the outer margin of fol. 111r.
History
MS. Rawl. D. 913 – fols 112–129
Contents
Language(s): Middle French
Exempla on St Hilary, Abbot Helies, St Anthony and others not otherwise attested in the tradition of the Ci nous dit.
Cf. Ci nous dit, ed. by Gérard Blangez (Paris, 1979).Unidentified manual covering the Ten Commandments, the five senses, the seven deadly sins, the seven sacraments, the celebration of Mass and priesthood. Fol. 122r, 'Des cinc sens natureulx', begins 'Dieu ta donne le sens et les membres et tout le corps pour garder le cuer', fol. 122v, 'Des .vij. pechiez mortielx', begins 'Saint Iohan dit en son apocalice que il vit issir'.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
155 × 115 mm. 1 col., 30 lines, with very faint leadpoint ruling.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis semiquadrata.
Added notation: see below, Additions.
Decoration
Flourished 2-line red and blue initials.
Latin marginal annotations in the same 15th-century hand as the contemporary foliation.
Various scribbles, doodles and annotations of the 16th century, including a note beginning ‘Right wourshippefull and my Synguler good Maister’ on fol. 117v. Several attempts at adding musical notation: an empty 4-line staff on fol. 113, two 4-line staves with square notation on fol. 117v, an empty 7-line staff on fol. 127r, several notes on fol. 127v, one 4-line and one 5-line staff with square notation on fol. 128r.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (10 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2025-04-23: Sebastian Dows-Miller. Corrected typo in handNote @script and normalised use of locus.