MS. Rawl. G. 27

Summary Catalogue no.: 15458

Selections from books i-xi, viz. i.9 (to 'merilum esse laetere'); ii.16, 18; iv.5-7, 13; v.13, 16-18; vi.i, 4, 5, 9; vii.3, 17, 26; viii.i; x.10; xi.2, 3, 28, 27

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: i + 99 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 5.375 × 3.125 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 376)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 376

Border (mutilated)

Initials

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; Italian, Naples (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Royal Arms of Naples (mutilated), fol. 1

'J. Abell, è c. Linc'

'Liber Humfredi Wanley è coll. Univ. ex dono integerrimi amici mei Josephi Abell, Aug. 21. 1697' (fol. 97v)

'James West. 1723'

'Suum cuique. Tho: Hearne. Nov. 12, 1723. Ex dono amicissimi juvenis Jacobi West è coll. Ball.' (fol. i)

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 (1970)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 429

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-07-26: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)

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