Nicholas Trevet — 14th century, second quarter or middle (after 1329); England

Title

Nicholas Trevet — 14th century, second quarter or middle (after 1329); England

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 178

Date

14th century, second quarter or middle (after 1329)

Language

Latin

Anglo-Norman

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (modern paper) + 1 (unfoliated; former pastedown) + 68 (including one fragmentary leaf, unfoliated, between fols. 28 and 29) + i (modern paper)

Hands

Anglicana by one scribe.

Decoration

Historiated initial, fol. 1r: the second day of creation, God, holding globe divided into firmament and water.

Border, fol. 1r

Initials in blue and red, with penwork decoration in red and violet, sometimes extending into drawings of faces.

Other initials in blue and red.

Genealogical diagrams; space for another (?), fols. 53v-54r, not filled in.

Later (sixteenth century?) drawing of a camel, fol. i verso.

Binding

18th century (?) stiff parchment binding. Offset of six supports from an earlier binding on fol. i recto.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Pen trial (?) in Welsh (?), 15th century (?), 'Etto gobeith' (fol. i verso)

Heraldry, sixteenth century, fol. 67r: three coats of arms, (a) on a chevron between three cinquefoils, five ... ; a chevron engrailed between three mullets; on a bend between two crescents, six ...

Robert Keble, early 16th century: notes of payments by him, fols. i verso, 67r; note of the death of Agnes, wife of Robert Kebell gentleman, on the Sunday after St Matheus, apostle, 1538 (fol. 67r). Perhaps (given mentions in the payments of Bradfeld (Bradfield) and Suffeld (Suffield)) to be identified with Robert Keble of Felmingham (Visitation of Norfolk ... 1563 (1891), p. 303) who is possibly in turn to be identified with the Robert Keble who in 1534–5 with his wife Agnes conveyed the manor of Moorhouse in Hoveton (Francis Blomefield, An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, XI (1810), p. 39, and cf. IX (1808) 441).

Henry Spelman (signed, fol. 1r)

Edward Umfreville, d. 1786: the note by him in MS. Douce 119 apparently refers to the present manuscript.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755: apparently a gift to him from Umfreville (B. J. Enright, 'Richard Rawlinson: collector, antiquary, and topographer' D.Phil thesis, Oxford, 1957, B lviii).

Title

Nicholas Trevet, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 178

Date

second quarter or middle of the 14th century (after 1329)

Language

Latin

French

English

Physical extent

1 item