MS. Rawl. G. 5

Summary Catalogue no.: 14740

Followed by:

Temporale (fol. 479), ending with the dedication; sanctorale (fol. 480vb); common of the dedication [sic] and the saints (fol. 482rb); votive masses for each day of the week (fol. 482va), for various intentions, and the dead (fol. 482vb); feast and octave of the dedication [sic]. Incipits and explicits.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 523 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 159 × 100 mm.

Dimensions (written): 103 × 90 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 48 lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 537:

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

History

Origin: 13th century, third quarter ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

‘W.M.’ on the binding.

In England in the 16th century: signed by ‘William Bosworth’, ‘William Mutle’ (?), ‘George Trauers’, ‘William Tailor’.

‘Auncelus Nappe’, 16th cent.

‘Joannes Berneis de Lightwood’, 17th cent.

‘Rees ap Owen’, 17th cent.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Record Sources

S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957); Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography). Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 341