MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 10

Summary Catalogue no.: 15817

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

ii + 106 + 1 fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.

Dimensions (written): 92 × 60 mm.

Layout

17 long lines

Decoration

By the Master of the Morgan Spiegel (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M.868). (Pächt and Alexander i. 205)

Good miniatures.

Good borders more of Flemish type.

Good initials.

Binding

Contemporary stamped leather on boards, made in the Netherlands, bearing some such words as 'Ke : ceste : liver : lert' (??) ['ke : geste : liver : lera.' ? E.W.B.N.].

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; Dutch (?)

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 (1966).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 506

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 274

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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