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MSS. Rawl. G. 183-4

Summary Catalogue no.: 14900

Summary Catalogue no.: 14901

Pentateuch, with gloss

With a commentary chiefly consisting of a gloss from the Church Fathers

MS. Rawl. G. 183 ends with Exodus xxxiii.33 ('delebo eum')

MS. Rawl. G. 184 begins with Leviticus xxii.12 ('-dotis cuilibet ex populo')

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 185 leaves in MS. Rawl. G. 183 and ii + 169 leaves in MS. Rawl. G. 184

Dimensions (binding): 16.75 × 11.125 in.

Condition

Leaves are lost after fols 176 and 180 of MS. Rawl. G. 183, and perhaps elsewhere

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 518, Pl. XL

Fine historiated border

Fine historiated initials (e.g. MS. Rawl. G. 184, fol. 111v, showing Moses putting the tablets of the Law into the ark

Fine other initials

History

Origin: 13th century, second quarter ; France, Paris

Provenance and Acquisition

'tradidi Roberto Anglico x sol. Turonensium, item x Turonensium, tercio c sol. Parisiensium, quarto x sol. Turonensium' (MS. Rawl. G. 183, fol. 183r, late 13th century?)

Mottisfont, Hampshire. Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity: 'Istum librum contulit magister Albericus de Vitriaco ecclesie de Motesfunt' (MS. Rawl. G. 184, fol. 168r), s. xiii ex (MLGB3)

Holland family of Quidenham, Norfolk: 'Secreta mea mihi T. Holland' (MS. Rawl. G. 183, fol. 3r) (MLGB3); sale of the library of Sir John Holland (approximately 1669-approximately 1724), Bibliotheca Hollandiana, Norwich, 1730, Folio, no. 4 (p. 3).

James Brydges, Duke of Chandos (Enright, 'Rawlinson', app. B)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 374

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 375