MS. Rawl. A. 416
Summary Catalogue no.: 11297
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: (fol. 218rb) Music for the feast of St James (patron of Reading) identical with that in the Unde malum volume of Reading Augustine (Phillipps 241), v. BQR 8. 86 (1935), p. 53 for owners. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
S. Reynolds. J. Reynolds. Thomas Fytton Longley. Lord Somers. Jos. Jekyll, 100. (MLGB3)
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).
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 359
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.