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MS. Rawl. C. 558

Summary Catalogue no.: 12403

Contents

1.
Book of Hours.
Language(s): Latin
2.
Life of St. Frideswide
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
2 + 162 + 4 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 137 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 81 mm.

Layout

23 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 944:

Good border.

Good initials. Notes to the rubricator survive, fol. 41, etc.

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

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, col. 303
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 215

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 174

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.