Guardbook of fragments

Title

Guardbook of fragments

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. D. 913

Place of origin

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

Netherlands (?)

England (?)

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

England, London

France (?)

France

England Norwich

English, French, Netherlandish

England, Cambridge (tentative attribution)

England

Flanders (?)

Date

14th century, first quarter.

14th Century

15th century, possibly late.

14th century, first quarter

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

1450-1550

14th century, as dated by Stengel.

14th century.

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

15th century, late

Late 15th Century; after 1460.

1562.

Early 15th Century

14th Century, possibly middle.

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

15th century, possibly early 16th.

c.1420 (See Skeat 1872)

13th century, last quarter.

14th century, late

14th century

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

14th century, second or third quarter

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

15th Century, middle

14th Century, early

15th Century

14th century - 16th century

15th century

15th century, mid to late.

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Dutch

Middle English (1100-1500)

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

English

Latin

Anglo-Norman

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