MS. Rawl. G. 6

Summary Catalogue no.: 14741

Followed by:

Temporale (fol. 437), on the principal feasts the lessons of matins are indicated; sanctorale (fol. 438vb) beginning with St. Sylvester (31 Dec.); extract from the common of the saints (fol. 439vb), votive masses and masses of the dead. The list is followed by a composite sanctorale (fol. 440) and common (fol. 443) in which the principal feasts have a long series of texts from the Scripture, recommended for sermons.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

iii + 447 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 167 × 120 mm.

Dimensions (written): 112 × 79 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 51 lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 538:

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

History

Origin: 13th century, second quarter ; French, Paris

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol.443, between 11 and 23 Nov. is the feast of St. Melimundus.

‘Fratri[sic] Martini de Sintria Magistri’, 14th century (?), fol. lv.

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) (fols. 437–43); Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography). Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 341

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 538

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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