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MS. Rawl. G. 43

Summary Catalogue no.: 14774

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Sallust, Catilina
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 19)
Sallust, Jugurtha
Rubric: Liber II
Final rubric: Explicit Liber Salustii
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 52v)
Ps.-Sallust; Ps.-Cicero, Inuectiuae
Incipit: Grauiter et iniquo animo
Incipit: Ea demum magna voluptas est
Language(s): Latin

On fol. 56 are three Provençal glosses, 'rudo . bram' [or bran], 'gannio . lairar', 'Ignio . foguegar', in a grammatical excerpt: on fol. 56v is a rough and simple mappa mundi (12th cent.?). On fol. 1 is an elaborate capital letter.

Language(s): Old Provençal

On fol. 56v are some Hebrew notes, perhaps by a Jew who held the book in pledge, see MS. Rawl. G. 52 (SC 14783)

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
ii (paper, uncut, conjugate with pastedown) + 56 + ii (paper, uncut, conjugate with pastedown) leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 192 × 129 × 20–32 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 167–185 × 116–125 mm.
Foliation: Later pencil foliation on top right of recto side.

Collation

1–7(8)

Layout

135–142 × 91 mm.

Hand(s)

At least one scribe, writing in a combination of light and dark brown inks, with a possible change in scribe on f. 17r.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 473:

Decorated initial in black ink depicting two birds on 1r.

Mappa mundi with labels found on 56v.

Binding

Red leather with gold tooling (Thomas Rawlinson's).

History

Origin: 12th century, beginning ; French, South

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas Rawlinson: No. 102 in his sale, March 1733/4.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 349
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 350

2025-06-12: Additional data collected by Maura McKeon as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 12th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 3rd July 2025.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-06-12: Additional data collected by Maura McKeon as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 12th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 3rd July 2025.