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MS. Rawl. C. 142

Summary Catalogue no.: 12007

Contents

Missal, Use of Sarum

Contemporary additions: proses of Our Lady, the mass of St. Richard, bishop and confessor (fols. 1, 3v); kalendar (fol. 7); blessing of holy water (fol. 13); temporale (fol. 16) with prefaces (fol. 126v) and canon (fol. 131); common of the dedication (fol. 187); sanctorale (fol. 188); common of the saints (fol. 242); mass of St. John of Bridlington (fol. 262) with a commemoration (antiphon, versicle and prayers) for his translation feast; votive masses (fol. 253v), among which the mass of the Holy Name (fol. 267), introduced by a long rubric stating that Robert [Hallam], bp. of Sarum, gave an indulgence in 1411; marriage service (fol. 280), incomplete.

Tags sewn and folded.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 284 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 309 × 203 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 136 mm.

Condition

5 leaves cut out at the beginning, some missing at the end.

Layout

2 col. of 31 lines

Musical Notation:

Square notation on 11 staves of 4 red lines.

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander iii. 942, pl. XC):

Fine miniatures.

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

A full-page crucifixion at the beginning of the canon (130v).

Binding

Contemporary binding of white leather on boards.

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter, after 1411 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Written after 1411 (fol. 267); texts of St John of Bridlington (fols. 262–3) possibly suggest a Yorkshire or northern origin.

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 Vol. 1: Mass Books; and 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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 56
Quarto Catalogue, col. 57
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 207

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.