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MS. Rawl. liturg. c. 2

Summary Catalogue no.: 30673

Contents

Missal, Use of Sarum

Calendar (fol. 1); blessing of holy water (fol. 7), imperfect; temporale (fol. 8), beginning abruptly in the order of the mass on the first Sunday in Advent, and, after Holy Saturday, divided into two parts by the second order of the mass (fol. 107) with intonations of the Gloria, Credo, Ite missa est, etc. and prefaces; sanctorale (fol. 174), incomplete at the beginning; common (fol. 223), incomplete at the beginning; votive masses of the Virgin, etc. (fol. 236); shortened ritual of the marriage mass (fol. 251v); masses of the dead fol. (253); by a later hand a mass entitled 'Papa celestinus fecit orationes sequentes pro [Elisabeth] sorore sua pregnante et concessit centum dies indulgentie dicenti illas infra missam pro mulieri pregnante' (fol. 262v). Many rubrics.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
iii + 262 + 2 + ii fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 334 × 240 mm.
Dimensions (written): 232 × 145 mm.

Condition

One or more leaves missing after fol. 7, 19, 23, 117, 126, 138, 140, 146, 173, 196, 206, 209, 218, 222.

Layout

2 col. of 39 lines.

27 lines in the canon.

Musical Notation:

Square notation on 13 staves of 4 red lines.

Decoration

Good borders, initials (mutilated). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1035)

Most of the coloured initials and borders have been cut out; they remain on fol.7, 171v, 181v, 185v, 195v.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755 (?)

Referenced in the Rawlinson collection about 1888 but lacking direct evidence of belonging to the collection.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford Vol. 1: Mass Books; Pächt and Alexander; and the Summary Catalogue.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 865

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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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.