MS. Rawl. G. 8
Summary Catalogue no.: 15361
Contents
Slightly later addition. Temporale (fol. 507), ending with the dedication; sanctorale (fol. 511ra); common of the saints (fol. 514va); votive masses (fol. 515va). Incipits and explicits.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 47 lines.
Decoration
Good historiated and other initials. A quire added, fols. 239–246, from a different MS. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 493, pl. XLVIII)
fol. 1r: initial F: St. Jerome seated before a lectern, writing (badly rubbed) (Prologue).
fol. 4v: initial I: Seven panels depicting Christ Enthroned and six days of creation (Genesis).
fol. 394r: initial L: St Matthew reclining on a couch; animal head (St Matthew's Gospel).
Pink and blue initials, decorated with coiled tendrils, foliage, flowers and animal heads.
Blue initials decorated with red penwork.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Sam: Harmar’, 1653
Joseph, Charles, and Joyce Harmar, 17th cent.
Thomas Hearne, no. 53 in his catalogue (MS. Rawl. D. 1168).
Bequeathed by Hearne to William Bedford.
Bought from Bedford by Richard Rawlinson.
Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.