A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Rawl. G. 125

Summary Catalogue no.: 14850

Contents

1.
Bible

With prologues

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 449)
Stephen Langton, Interpretaciones nominum hebraicorum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 489 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.375 × 7 in.

Decoration

Decorative initials (e.g. fol. 439v and fols 415v-416r)

Coloured initials

With some later sketches (e.g. of a monk on fol. 447r and a face drawn between the columns on fol. 446v)

Binding

Red leather with gold tooling (18th century)

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 1r: 'Su(m) Arthuri Darcei' (16th century?)

'T. B., 1751.' written on the front cover in ink

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) with additional description of decoration.

Last Substantive Revision

2024-07-22: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)