MS. Rawl. D. 873

Summary Catalogue no.: 13640

Beginning with Easter Sunday (fol. 1) and ending with 9 lessons for Trinity Sunday (fol. 207^v) after the last Sunday of Pentecost; a legend of St Maximus Regensis episcopi (fol. 213^v); 9 lessons for All Saints Day (fol. 223). Often the homily is followed by one or more sermons.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

i + 230 + i fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 385 × 265 mm.

Dimensions (written): 315 × 200 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 35 lines

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 55)

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; Italian, Reggio-Emilia

Provenance and Acquisition

S. Giovanni Battista juxta Plateam, Reggio-Emilia. Fol. 1, 230: 'Iste liber est ecclesie sancti Johannis baptiste de Regio iusta plateam' (s. xii/xiii); fol. 230^r: 'Infra scripti sunt vicarii ecclesie sancti Johannis baptiste', a list of 15 names beginning with Johannes de Lasalsa, incorrectly copied on the verso; also: 'Mcccc xxx. xv Aug. Tempore dompni Damiani dicti dompni Marchixii de Sonzino capellani dicte ecclesie … Isti sunt vicini', followed by a list of 12 names. On the verso scribblings with the date 1290, and the verses 'Qui scripsit scribat .... B in nomine felix'.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted from the following sources:

W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 157

Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, col. 52

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 2, col. 53

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 242