University College MS. 78A

Missal, use of Hereford

Language(s): Latin ; Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: vellum

Decoration

"Fine borders, fine and other initials." (Alexander and Temple)

Binding

Leather spine, exposed wooden boards (rebacked).

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

"olim Gul. Rogers, ex hospit. Lincoln. 1668." (Coxe) "Dedication of Hereford Cathedral in the calendar. Dedication of St Dubricius, Whitchurch, Monmouthshire, probably a contemporary addition. Given in 1668 by William Rogers of Painswyck, commoner, fols. 1,7, 227v." (Alexander and Temple) Parish of Whitchurch, Herefordshire (Ker, p. 389).

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 23

J. J. G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985), Cat. No. 422 [information on decoration and origin]

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (ed.), The Index of Middle English Prose VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 108-9

Availability

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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