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MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 1*

Summary Catalogue no.: 15842

Contents

Breviary (Benedictine)

Made for Hyde Abbey, Winchester

Fols. 168–78, addition, 15th cent.

Fols. 179–88: Masses of the holy Trinity, holy Ghost, holy Cross, Our Lady, angels, relics, All Saints, pro ecclesia, pro semetipso, pro familiaribus, pro pace, pro iter agentibus, etc., for the dead, missa generalis, de sancto Valentino, de sancta Katherina

Formerly a single volume with MS. Gough Liturg 8.

Pr. J. B. L. Tolhurst, The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, HBS (1930, etc.).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine border, historiated initial. Good illuminated and penwork initials. Related in style to the Master of the Queen Mary Psalter. (P&A iii. 544, pl. LIV)

History

Origin: 13th century, late, or 14th century, beginning (? between 1292 and 1304); additions, 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973). Description of fols. 179–88 from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford (typescript) Vol. 1: Mass Books.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 515
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 516

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.