Chronicon Ramesiensis, etc.; England, early 14th-early 16th century.

Title

Chronicon Ramesiensis, etc.; England, early 14th-early 16th century.

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 333

Place of origin

English, Ramsey Abbey (?)

Date

15th century, end or 16th century, beginning

15th century, middle

14th century, early

Language

Latin

Anglo-Norman

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii (18th-century paper) + 1 (parchment, former front cover) + 2 (parchment endleaves) + 69 + 1 (parchment, former back cover) + i (18th-century paper)leaves; with 2 sheets of paper (blank) interleaved between fols. 12 and 13, 1 between fols. 35 and 36, 1 betweeen 49 and 50, and 4 leaves of paper interleaved between fols. 68 and [69],

Binding

Parchment over pasteboards, probably 17th century. Fols. [vi] and [70] are the covers from a former limp parchment binding.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin and St Benedict: (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Scraps of English prose added, 16th century (?), fols. 56r, 58r, 68v; proverb in Italian, fol. 67v.

Henry Spelman. His notes throughout: Examinatur cum originali, 27 Junii, 1628, per me Hen. Spelman et Franciscum Boyton. Et in margine correctiones addidi, ut patet, sed interdum ubi una vel altera litera tantum differebat hic liber ab originali, apposui genuinam in apice vel interdum in margine; vitiosam puncto subjecto vel lineola denotavi. Testium item nomina tribus in Privilegio exarantur columnis ordine quo supra. Claret hîc autem quam malefidè transcripserunt monachi chartas, privilegia, codices, exemplaria. Errata enim et mendas libentiùs admitterent in scriptis suis quàm decorem paginæ litura aliqua deturparent. Inde tanta manuscriptorum discrepantia, pugna, et contrarietas.

Walter Clauell (sale March, April 1738 no. 22 of the MSS. in folio).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Title

History of Ramsey Abbey (a version of the 'Liber Benefactorum', incorporating copies of early charters)

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 333

Date

early 14th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 item