MS. Rawl. G. 62
Summary Catalogue no.: 14793
Contents
Missing part of I.6-7 (see Toneatto)
Based on Vitruvius and other authors
Interpolated version (Toneatto; cf. K. W. Gransden, 'The Interpolated Text of the Vitruvian Epitome', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 20, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Dec., 1957), 370-372) also containing:
Bubnov., pp. 9-10 (see Toneatto)
See Toneatto: pr. Gransden p. 378.
A world chronicle, followed (fol. 71v) by a fragment of William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum, starting with the dedicatory letter and breaking off at the foot of f. 73r in i. 6, with the words sulcantes alueum Rotomagum (see Houts, sig. B3).
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 307
Marginal drawings
Borders
Initials (e.g. fols 2, 21v, 42, 46, etc.)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Waltham, Essex, Augustinian abbey of Holy Cross: 'Liber ecclesie Sancte Crucis de Waltham, quem qui a dicta ecclesia alienauerit anathema sit. Amen.' (s. xv)
'Hunc librum dedit nobis Petrus Londonie archidiaconus cuius anima requiescat in pace amen' s. xiii on fol. 1v, flyleaf; MLGB3 suggests Peter of Newport, c. 1240; Houts suggests Peter of Waltham, fl. 1190-5 (MLGB3)
Old pastedowns gone. The 'pressmark' s. xiiii noted by MRJ (Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc.) appears to refer to MS. Rawl. D. 1228, not this manuscript, and to be there in a modern hand. Medieval column numbering in the earlier part of the manuscript (MLGB3)
Walter Clavell, 4o, 4 (Enright, 'Rawlinson', app. B).
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-08-01: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)