MS. Rawl. G. 129
Summary Catalogue no.: 14854
Physical Description
Binding
Red leather with gold tooling (Thomas Rawlinson's). Binding comparable to other Rawlinson manuscripts
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'De libris bone memorie magistri H. Fresneri [altered from Fresneru(m)?] canonici Andegavensis. [d. 1472] Datum per executores ipsius ad vsum perpetuum librare [sic] facultatis nouiter inchoate' (15th century)
Angers Cathedral (?): see above. (The text was interpreted in the index to the Summary Catalogue as referring to the University of Angers, but may refer to the recent construction of the library at Angers Cathedral (finished in 1472): cf. Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae VII: Diocese de Angers (2003), pp. 23-7 and Jean-Michel Matz, 'La bibliothèque du chapitre cathédral d’Angers d’après l’inventaire de 1472', Publications de l'École Française de Rome 349 (2005), 185-220; the present manuscript does not appear in the 1472 inventory perhaps because it was given after the inventory was compiled.)
No. 735 in the Thomas Rawlinson sale, 4 March 1733/1734
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
MS. Rawl. G. 129 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Decoration
Coloured initials
History
MS. Rawl. G. 129 – Part 2
Contents
Preceded by short arguments of the books
The first few pages have copious notes in a later hand
Aeneid v.199-vi.119 are misbound
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
The lines Aeneid ii.567-588 are added by the scribe of part A, with the note 'Ista metra non sunt de testu'
History
Additional Information
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-07-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)