Virgil — 14th century
MS. Rawl. G. 129
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Virgil — 14th century
Virgil — 13th century, early
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. G. 129
Date
13th century, early
14th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 137leaves
Binding
Red leather with gold tooling (Thomas Rawlinson's). Binding comparable to other Rawlinson manuscripts
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
Provenance
'De libris bone memorie magistri H. Fresneri [altered from Fresneru(m)?] canonici Andegavensis. [d. 1472] Datum per executores ipsius ad vsum perpetuum librare [ sic] facultatis nouiter inchoate' (15th century)
Angers Cathedral (?): see above. (The text was interpreted in the index to the Summary Catalogue as referring to the University of Angers, but may refer to the recent construction of the library at Angers Cathedral (finished in 1472): cf. Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae VII: Diocese de Angers (2003), pp. 23-7 and Jean-Michel Matz, 'La bibliothèque du chapitre cathédral d’Angers d’après l’inventaire de 1472', Publications de l'École Française de Rome 349 (2005), 185-220; the present manuscript does not appear in the 1472 inventory perhaps because it was given after the inventory was compiled.)
No. 735 in the Thomas Rawlinsonsale, 4 March 1733/1734
Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755
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