MS. Rawl. D. 358

Summary Catalogue no.: 15476

Language(s): Latin

1. (pp. 2–3)

John Wheathamstead, Abbot of St. Albans, Register (1420)

Fragment used as endleaf. Page 1 blank. Page 4 blank.

2. (pp. 5–71)

Ps.-Aristotle, De regimine principum

Pages 72–80 blank

3. (pp. 81–94)

Thomas Cantimpratensis, De lapidibus preciosis (De natura rerum, bk. XIV),

p. 95 blank; p. 96, ex libris of John Whethamstede/St Albans abbey; see Provenance.

4. (pp. 97–101)

De mirabilibus Britannie

5. (pp. 102–104)

Argumenta to the books of Lucan, Pharsalia

6. (pp. 105–128)

Knight of the Swan

7. (pp. 128–130)

Legenda de Constantia

MS. Douce 299 is part of the same manuscript: see MLGB3.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 65 folios

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

John Whethamstede, abbot of St Albans (p. 96: 'liber ~~monasterii sancti Albani ex dono~~ magistri Johannis Whethamstede olim Abbatis ecclesie eiusdem': see MLGB3)

St Albans, Benedictine abbey

Richard Graves of Mickelton (fol. [i])

Given by him to Thomas Hearne, by 1723 (fol. [i])

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 1, cols. 187–8

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 432