Guardbook of manuscript fragments

Title

Guardbook of manuscript fragments

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. D. 893

Place of origin

England (?)

Date

8th century - 17th century (fols. 116-17 datable after 1297)

14th century, second half

12th century, last quarter

14th century

13th century, second or third quarter.

Language

English

Middle English (1100-1500)

Anglo-Norman

Latin

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Fine miniature on fol. 103, with a symbolical representation of alchemical processes; 15th century, third quarter, West German (Pächt and Alexander i. 173, pl. XII)

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Fols. 19-26, 105, 106, 113: Bardney, Lincolnshire, Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Oswald: The manuscript contains an account of a visit of King Henry IV to Bardney in 1412. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Fols. 1-2: a letter from Robert New offering a collection of fragments formerly owned by Peter Le Neve, addressed to ‘Mr Thomas Hearne at Edmund Hall Oxon’: 'Sir Knowing your affection for Old Manuscripts I desire you will please to accept of the Parcell I herewith send you which were part of the Collection of the late Mr Le Neve Norroy King at Arms ...'; dated Middle Temple 28th April 1731.

Peter Le Neve, 1661–1729

Thomas Hearne, 1678–1735

Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725) Richard Rawlinson (1690–1755) (MLGB3)

Bodleian Library, MSS Rawlinson C.504, C.510, and D.893 fols. 19–26, 105–106, 113, formed one volume. (MLGB3)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755