Translation of a considerable portion of the first volume of Dugdale's Monasticon , containing all the cathedrals and twenty-seven abbeys; by Daniel King, 17th century

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MS. Rawl. B. 519

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King's engraved views of the cathedrals, etc. are interspersed, together with ground-plans. At fols. 99–104 are copies by Dugdale of inscriptions in Westminster abbey, and at fol. 371 a ground-plan by Rich. Newcourt of Salisbury cathedral.

Indices of persons and places are added at the end.

Dates

17th century

Extent

369 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 519

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens (Oxford, 1862), no. B. 519.

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 11866.

Custodial History

Olim (testante R. Rawlinson) peculium Ric. Newcourt, regist. London.; postea, inter codices Petri Le Neve, 986; denique, Thomæ Sclater Bacon, 1774, e cujus bibliotheca emptus fuit a Rawlinson pretio octo solidorum.

Bibliography

This appears to be the translation mentioned by Dugdale in his diary (in quarto. Lond. 1827, p. 103, sub anno 1658) as being proposed for publication by King without his consent, and as being "most erroneously Englished in a multitude of places."
It is called in Le Neve's sale catalogue, "the book of Syl. Morgan," apparently from a curious cypher on the binding of the volume composed of the letters which form the name of that heraldic writer.