MS. Rawl. Q. f. 8

Summary Catalogue no.: 27836

Language(s): Latin

From the library of Ely cathedral priory.

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 122 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 154 × 115 mm.

1 col., 115–120 × 75–85 mm.

Origin: 12th century, fourth quarter (perhaps between 1171 and 1177) ; English

Ely, Cambridgeshire, Benedictine abbey and (1109) cathedral priory of St Peter and St Etheldreda: "Iste liber pertinet ecclesie Eliensi" (foot of last leaf: fol. 122v). Ely cross-mark on fol. 1r (outer margin). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Lord Somess "a.35", "His. Aug. 21", "q I 18." Sir Joseph Jekyll (lot 259 in sale 1739). (MLGB3)

No old flyleaves; binding of s. xviii 1 . (MLGB3)

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1895).

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 691

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.

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