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

MS. Rawl. G. 132

Summary Catalogue no.: 14857

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 140 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.25 × 6.375 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. By the same hand as Wellesely, Massachusetts, Plimpton Collection, 485, Petrach from San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 725, Pl. LXX (fol. 2, Initial 'h' and border)

Fine borders (fol. 2), partly damaged

Fine initials

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italy, Lombardy

Provenance and Acquisition

Arms, partly erased (fol. 1), bendy of six or and gules (?), with a chief or, the charge perhaps gules but erased

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895) and Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-06-24: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)