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MS. Rawl. G. 169

Summary Catalogue no.: 14892

Contents

Gospel of St. Matthew with gloss

With prologue and copious notes

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 99 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 13.75 × 9.625 in.

Condition

The first leaf of the text and notes, containing i.1, is cut out

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 466

Good initials

Later fleuronnée work added to some

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

'Iste liber est magistri Michael rectoris ecclesie de Cropthorne & traditur Ade de Furches diacono usque ad Festum sancti Johannis Baptiste anno Domini mº ccº lxxº nono' (altered from ... lxxvº?). (For (a later?) Adam de Fourches of Cropthorne, ordained subdeacon in 1306, see Register of Bishop William Ginsborough, 1303 to 1307, p. 156).

On fol. 95v 'Ledbury scripcit' (16th century)

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 (1973)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 373

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-07-31: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)