MS. Rawl. G. 54

Summary Catalogue no.: 14785

(fol. 1r)

Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (books 17 and 18)

Incipit: Quoniam in ante exposilis lib(ri)s de partib(us) orat(i)onis

(fol. 72v)

Incipit: In sup(er)iori libro d(e) articulariu(m) d(i)c(ti)onu(m)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: vi + 120 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 9.125 × 6 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 300

Decorative initials (e.g. fol. 1 and fol. 57v)

Coloured intials

Later sketches, mostly of people used to decorate the catchwords at quire markings (e.g. fol. 60v and fol. 68v)

Binding

Red leather with gold tooling (Thomas Rawlinson's). Binding comparable to other Rawlinson manuscripts

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; Flanders (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

On fols 57 and (erased) 113v: 'Est liber hic Sancti Martini Louaniensis'; 'p(re)ciu(m) hui(us) libri iij floreni Rene(n)ses' (fol. 117r). See MS. Rawl. G. 41 and MS. Rawl. G. 52

'Petrus Rebollj' is written with a metal stylus on fol. 90v (14th century)

'liber est R. de Burgnouo clerici de Marcilhaco diosesis ...' (15th century)

Thomas Rawlinson, MS. 116 (Enright, 'Rawlinson', app. B).

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) with additional reference to published literature as cited. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 353

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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