Guardbook of fragments

Title

Guardbook of fragments

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. D. 913

Place of origin

Flanders (?)

English, French, Netherlandish

England Norwich

England

England, Cambridge (tentative attribution)

France, Picardy(as shown by Keller on linguistic grounds)

France

France (?)

Letters mostly written while in England, London, with some written while travelling in Paris.

England, London

Netherlands (?)

England (?)

Date

14th Century, early

15th century, possibly early 16th.

15th century, mid to late.

13th century, last quarter, or 14th century, first quarter.

14th century, second or third quarter

15th century, possibly late.

28th Nov 1493 ("xxviii day of Novembr Ao ix H vii") – 10th Jan 1495 ("xxth day of Ianyver Ao x H vii")

14th Century, late ; or 15th Century, early

1562.

Early 15th Century

14th century, as dated by Stengel.

15th Century, middle

12th century, last quarter, or 13th century, first quarter.

15th Century

14th Century, possibly middle.

Dated between 23 Jan 1578[79] and 11 Jan 1579[80]

13th century, last quarter.

Late 15th Century; after 1460.

1450–1550

14th century

14th century – 16th century

c.1420 (See Skeat 1872)

14th century, late

15th century

14th century, first quarter

14th century.

14th century, first quarter.

14th Century

15th century, late

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Anglo-Norman

English

Latin

Dutch

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper, parchment

Binding

Nineteenth century half leather binding.

Acquisition

A miscelleous group of fragments from the collection of Richard Rawlinson, bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755 along with the rest of his collection. Several have come via the libraries of Thomas Hearneand John Bagford; see individual item decriptsions for details. Some have been extracted from the bindings of other items in the Rawlinson collection, although there is no longer a record of their host manuscripts. Codex in current form dates to c.1861. Bound under Macray's direction. Formerly at the shelfmark 'Rawlinson Misc 1370'. Note that the Quarto Catalogue erroneously numbers it as 'Misc 1390'. As well as the present shelfmark, the front board bears the following inscriptions: "This may perhaps be placed as Rawl. D. 913 which is vacant, the vol. formerly there having been moved to Rawl. D. 400". "Poetry"; "MS. Rawl.s Misc. 1262 1370"; "1370" These last three have been struck out.

Provenance

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755