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

MS. Rawl. G. 52

Summary Catalogue no.: 14783

Contents

Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae

Books 1-16, with gloss

Language(s): Latin

Notes in Hebrew, fols. 181v, 182, see Provenance.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: viii + 187 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.75 × 6.75 in.

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

Origin: c. 1200 ; France, North (?)

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

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-06-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)