A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Rawl. D. 894

Summary Catalogue no.: 13660

Contents

1.

Fragments: collection of fragments from ecclesiastical service books

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 18)
Ferial Psalter, use of Sarum (cutting),

15th century, first half

Language(s): Latin
3.
Evangelistary
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 32)
Missal, use of Sarum,

15th century, first quarter. Single leaf.

Language(s): Latin
5. (fols. 43–44)
Psalter,

14th century, beginning. Fragments.

Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 72)
Missal,

14th century, first half. Single leaf.

Language(s): Latin
7. (fol. 73)
Book of Hours,

15th century, beginning. Single leaf.

Language(s): Latin
8. (fols. 81–8)
Order of Secular Psalter, Use of Rome,

1483.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Initial, fol. 18. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 968)

Initials, fols. 19–20. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 407)

Fine border, initials (mutilated), fol. 32. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 879)

Good borders, initials, fols. 43–44. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 568)

Initial, fol. 72. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 963)

Good initial, fol. 73. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 852)

History

Origin: 8th century - 15th century ; English, Netherlands (?) (fols. 81–8)

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). For fols. 81–8 based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 398–71.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 119b
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 147
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), pp. 34, 61, 92, 168, 179, 188, 195, 199, 201, 213, 217, 221, 227, 250
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), pp. 13, 30, 31, 115, 125, 126, 132, 139, 142, 144, 171, 196, 198, 216, 218, 220, 224, 269, 271, 272, 283, 319, 326, 328, 329, 368

    Online resources:

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.