MS. Rawl. C. 781

Summary Catalogue no.: 15420

Breviary (Bridgettine)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

ii + 79 + iii fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 161 × 120 mm.

Dimensions (written): 147 × 90 mm.

Layout

28 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1033:

Borders.

Initials (mutilated).

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Syon, Middlesex, Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget (?) : (MLGB3: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar).

Th. Hearne, 1720. (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. 401–2

Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 426