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

MS. Rawl. poet. 224

Summary Catalogue no.: 14715

Contents

Poems, liturgical pieces, etc., connected with the Holy Tear

Written for the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Vendôme, which preserved the relic.

Language(s): Latin, Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 742, pl. LVIII:

Good miniature.

Good border.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 1453–1461 and 1528 ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.