Richard Rolle, Richard Maidstone, John of Howden — 15th century, beginning; English

Title

Richard Rolle, Richard Maidstone, John of Howden — 15th century, beginning; English

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. A. 389

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Lichfield, Staffordshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin and St Chad: Rawlinson A.389 belonged to two prebendaries of Lichfield in s. xv ex. At end: 'Liber magistri Thome Rynold' and 'Liber Magistri Iohannis Redhill'; both were prebendaries of Lichfield in s. xv 2 . No. 73 in Patrick Young's catatlogue of the Lichfield cathedral manuscripts, 1622–3. The flyleaf, fol. iii, is from a 13th-cent. MS of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae. Mark of chain (?) shows at foot of fols. iii recto and i recto. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

John Langley of the Amies, Broseley, whose arms are on the binding. Somers. Somers-Jekyll sale, March 1739–40, no. 112. (MLGB3)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Title

Richard Rolle, Richard Maidstone, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. A. 389

Date

early 15th century

Language

Latin

English

Physical extent

1 item