A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Rawl. A. 387a

Summary Catalogue no.: 11269

Contents

Missal, Use of Sarum

Temporale (fol. 1), beginning at the end of the passion of Good Friday, with the order of the mass (fols. 14–7, 16–36); common of the dedication (fol. 88); sanctorale (fol. 91); common of the saints (fol. 148v); votive masses of the Virgin etc. (fols. 167–78, 18–25)(fol. 18–25 should follow fol. 178), ending abruptly in the masses of the dead, among which a mass for an abbot.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 178 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 140 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 34 lines

Musical Notation:

Square notation on 12 staves of 4 red lines.

Decoration

Good borders.

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 842) Illuminated capitals and borders (29, 30, 37, 51v, 55, 61, 62v, 91, etc.)

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford (typescript) Vol. 1: Mass Books; Pächt and Alexander. Previously described in 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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.