MS. Rawl. C. 425

Summary Catalogue no.: 12277

Pontifical of Westminster Abbey.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Fine initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 565)

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Westminster, Middlesex, Benedictine abbey of St Peter: (MLGB3: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar).

'Thomas Brone do ow this.' John Austis, Garter, 1743. (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, cols. 215–6

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 213