diff --git a/rdflib/graph.py b/rdflib/graph.py
index 6ee6d91ea..1fe680ac5 100644
--- a/rdflib/graph.py
+++ b/rdflib/graph.py
@@ -1342,8 +1342,10 @@ def parse(self, source=None, publicID=None, format="xml",
             source=source, publicID=publicID, location=location,
             file=file, data=data, format=format)
 
-        # id = self.context_id(self.absolutize(source.getPublicId()))
-        g_id = URIRef(publicID and publicID or source.getPublicId())
+        g_id = publicID and publicID or source.getPublicId()
+        if not isinstance(g_id, Node): 
+            g_id = URIRef(g_id)
+
         context = Graph(store=self.store, identifier=g_id)
         context.remove((None, None, None))
         context.parse(source, publicID=publicID, format=format,
diff --git a/test/test_conjunctive_graph.py b/test/test_conjunctive_graph.py
index 14605f16c..bc33e9b84 100644
--- a/test/test_conjunctive_graph.py
+++ b/test/test_conjunctive_graph.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-from rdflib.graph import ConjunctiveGraph
-from rdflib.term import Identifier, URIRef
+from rdflib import ConjunctiveGraph
+from rdflib.term import Identifier, URIRef, BNode
 from rdflib.parser import StringInputSource
 from os import path
 
@@ -10,6 +10,23 @@
 
 PUBLIC_ID = u"http://example.org/record/1"
 
+def test_bnode_publicid(): 
+
+    g = ConjunctiveGraph()
+    b = BNode()
+    data = '<d:d> <e:e> <f:f> .'
+    print ("Parsing '{}' into {}".format(data, repr(b)))
+    g.parse(data=data, format='turtle', publicID=b)
+
+    triples = list( g.get_context(b).triples((None,None,None)) )
+    if not triples:
+        raise Exception("No triples found in graph {}".format(repr(b)))
+
+    u = URIRef(b)
+
+    triples = list( g.get_context(u).triples((None,None,None)) )
+    if triples:
+        raise Exception("Bad: Found in graph {}: {}".format(repr(u), triples))
 
 def test_graph_ids():
     def check(kws):