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MS. Rawl. C. 147

Summary Catalogue no.: 12011

Contents

Gospel lectionary, Use of Sarum

Fragmentary: leaves missing, others bound up in the wrong order. Portions of the temporale: from Friday after Ash Wednesday to Good Friday (fols. 23, 57–62, 24, 25–56) and from the third Sunday after Trinity to the end (fols. 1–15v); dedication and reconciliation of a church (fols. 15v); beginning of the sanctorale to Sts. Processus and Martinus (fols. 16v-22) and from the third day in the octave of the Assumption to the feast of St. Luke (fols. 63–8).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 68 + i fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 303 × 207 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 132 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 26 lines or musical notation (see below).

Musical Notation:

Musical notation for the passions (fol. 37), square notation on 9 staves of 4 red lines.

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander iii. 1029)

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

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 (typescript, 1957); Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography); and 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. 60
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 207

Bibliography

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.