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MS. Hatton 93

Summary Catalogue no.: 4081

Commentary on the Mass

Language(s): Latin with occasional Old English notes

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 44 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 9 × 6.125 in.

Decoration

Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 7, pl. I)

History

Origin: 8th – 9th century ; English, Mercia (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Worcester, Worcestershire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin: Worcester letters included (fol. 41v). (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

The wooden boards show reflexes of two leaves of the same missal s. xi in. as is in the binding of Hatton 93. Turner, Lat. 8. Cf. C. H. Turner, Early Worcester MSS., p. lxv. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1937). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 832

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 833

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