MS. Rawl. G. 52
Summary Catalogue no.: 14783
Contents
Notes in Hebrew, fols. 181v, 182, see Provenance.
Physical Description
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander i. 507
Good painted and decorative initials
Marginal sketch, fol. 145v
Binding
Blue leather with gold tooling (Thomas Rawlinson's). Binding comparable to other Rawlinson manuscripts
History
Provenance and Acquisition
This manuscript belonged to the monastery of S. Martin at Louvain, and has similar inscriptions, some erased, to MS. Rawl. G. 41 and MS. Rawl. G. 54. Certain Hebrew letters on fols 181v and 182 also connect this manuscript to MS. Rawl. G. 43
'Jehem de Imus' (?) (14th century) is on fol. 181 and 'Godechat de Brebant' (13th century ?) is on fol. 182
No. 39 in the Thomas Rawlinson sale, 4 March 1733/1734
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
Record Sources
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-06-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)