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MS. Rawl. D. 939

Summary Catalogue no.: 15409

Contents

Agricultural and prognostic almanac in six pieces
Language(s): Middle English and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Miniatures (coloured drawings). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 749)

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

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 (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, cols. 209–10
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, col. 211
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 424

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (140 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 172

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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.