MS. Rawl. liturg. c. 3

Summary Catalogue no.: 15858

Calendar (fol. 1) with some Franciscan feasts added; blessing of holy water (fol. 7); temporale (fol. 9^v) with the baptism ritual on Holy Saturday (fol. 108), intonations of the Gloria (fol. 115), additional masses (fol. 116^v), prefaces and canon (fol. 117^v-25); sanctorale (fol. 165); common of the saints (fol. 211), incomplete at the beginning; votive masses of the Virgin, etc. (fol. 221^v); marriage service (232^v); servicium peregrinorum (fol. 235^v); masses of the dead (fol. 237^v); blessings (fol. 244). Addition: proser without music (fol. 245), masses of the Five Wounds (fol. 256), the Holy Name, the Visitation of the Virgin, and pro pestilentia vel morte (fol. 259: Recordare).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

i + 260 (261) + i fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 368 × 252 mm.

Dimensions (written): 250 × 168 mm.

Condition

Leaves missing after fol.120, 164, and 210

Layout

2 col. of 30 (canon 27) lines

Musical Notation:

Square notation on staves of 4 red lines, sometimes left blank.

Decoration

Fine borders, initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 791, pl. LXXIV)

Coloured initials on a gold background (fols. 7, 9^v, 24^v, 28^v, 31, 126, 145, 151, 165 ect.), cut out on fol.140 and 151^b.

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Probably from the parish church of St John, Strensham. In the calendar (13 July) ‘Obitus Roberti Russell‘ [of Strensham, Worcs. ?] anno mº ccccº xxxº iijº’ (contemporary (?) addition); 10 Dec.: Dedicatio ecclesie de Duryst [probably Deerhurst in Gloucestershire, near Strensham] (15th cent. addition).

On fols. 256^v and 260 members of the Carsy (?) family of Orleton (Worcestershire) are mentioned (16th cent.). Fol. 260^v: a note about Giles Reed, born at the Wynieard (of Pershore ?), 29 January 1573/4 and baptized at Tewkesbury.

‘Iste liber pertinet magistro Wilhelmo Carsy...’, 16th cent., fol. 260

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

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. 3, p. 521

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 791

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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