Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. D. 100
| England |
| Oxford |
| Bodleian Library |
| Rawl. D. 100 |
| SC 12918 |
| s. xvin |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 373 251, LP 7731 (McIntosh, Samuels and Bensin 1986, p. 250). |
An early fifteenth-century manuscript of
Mandeville's Travels (1966, p. 192).
Item: 1| ff. 1r-73r |
| Mandeville's Travels (IPMEP 233) |
| 'Lond or elles to bye žynggs žat žey haue nede of'. |
| 'and he haž longe hornes in hys forhed bitynge as sharpe as eny swerde'. |
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| Codex |
| Mostly paper with some parchment bifolia. |
| 200 x 140 mm |
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Catchwords: ff. 11v; 23v; 34v; 46v; 57v.
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| Pricking: variable, sometimes double holes or slits, sometimes single holes or slits. Writing space: 160 x 90 mm. Single columns with 24 lines. Ruling: traces of brown crayon for the frame. |
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Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32r), writing in black ink in a neat Anglicana Formata hand. Characteristics: ascenders on b and l at right angle; B-shaped w; ž; ?; looped ascenders on b, h, and l; 8-shaped s in initial position; double compartment a; 2-shaped r in medial position. Body height 2-3mm.
Scribe 2 (ff. 32v-73v), writing in brown ink in a more open, less tidy Anglicana hand. Characteristics: sigma s; curled ascenders on b, h, l; looped ascender on d.
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| Infrequent two-line red initials with amateurish penwork, some with profile heads. Some words underlined in red. Latin in red. Red paraphs. Top line ascenders elongated and tinted red.
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Not medieval - eighteenth century. Size: 210 x 145 mm. Cover of brown leather mitred and pasted over pasteboard with blind tooled double lines around edge and on left side blind tooled foliate border. Spine blind tooled with foliate designs and 'SIR JOHN MAUNDEUI__ TRAUALLS' stamped in gold. Four bands across the spine. No exterior furniture.
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| ff. 1-73 |
| F. 1r: 'See že Book intitaled on že Back (An Account of the Holy Land) where there are ten leaves before this'.
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| Relatively good condition but binding needs attention. F. 28v - bottom half of leaf missing, now repaired.
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| Unknown |
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Inscription on f. 12r, '' (fifteenth century). Inscription on f. 53r seems to be another inscription by 'Thomas Child'. Inscription on f. 23v, '' (?Langley Green, extreme W. Worcs). See also Seymour 1966 for more details, p. 192. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.
- Bennett, J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville, New York: Modern Language Association of America, p. 290.
- Dennison, L., Orr, M. T., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 3, MSS e Musaeo - Wood, London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. p. 57, no. 928.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Madan, F. 1895. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 3, p. 226.
- Seymour, M. C. 1966. ‘The English Manuscripts of Mandeville’s Travels’, Transactions of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 4, 169-210.
- Seymour, M. C. 2002. The Defective Version of Mandeville’s Travels, EETS, os, 319, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 198-199.
