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MS. Rawl. A. 371

Summary Catalogue no.: 15450

Contents

1.
Usuardus, Martyrologium
Language(s): Latin
2.
Customary, Use of Sarum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Initials (unfinished, mutilated). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 736)

History

Origin: 14th century, end (?) ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Bermondsey, Surrey, Cluniac priory and (from 1399) abbey of St Saviour (?) : See R. W. Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England (Oxford 1970), 121–2. Contemporary binding, rebacked. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Thomas Hearne (d. 1735) (MLGB3)

See R. W. Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England (Oxford 1970), 121–2. (MLGB3)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 376
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 428

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 200
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 190

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.