MS. Rawl. G. 47

Provenance and Acquisition

At end, fol. 79v: 'Xenophontis Liber feliciter explicit [...] 1441'

On fol. 3r is an unidentified coat of arms, azure a sea-lion (?) argent scaled or, holding a crown or. The arms are also found in other manuscripts of Italian origin: MS. E. D. Clarke 28 and London, British Library, Add. MSS. 16422, 17412 and 17812. 'N.I' is written above the shield as part of the illuminated title.

'Sum Nicholaj liber. Nec muto dominum nisi me (ut mobilis est [)] mutauerit ipse' (fol. 80v, with the name 'Nicholai' written three times, late 15th or 16th century)

Oxford, Oxfordshire, All Souls' College: Watson (1984) notes that the following inscription was treated with a reagent and is now largely beyond recovery but is recorded by the Summary Catalogue as 'Liber Collegij Animarum omnium dei fidelium defunctorum de Oxon' ex dono Reuerendi patris iacobi istius [erased] Goldwell nuper Norwicensis episcopi & olim istius Collegij socij' (base of fol. 4r)

2º folio 'habet quod aut figuram' = Vellum inventory fol. 27v 'Tractatus de ira dei 2º fo habet quod figuram' (MLGB3)

'resarcitus per Gressopum' (base of fol. 4r, s. xvi ex.), referring to an Oxford bookbinder (see Strickland Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings [OUP, 1903], p. 47)

No. 534 in the Thomas Rawlinson sale, 4 March 1733/1734

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755