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MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 41

Summary Catalogue no.: 15840

Contents

Missal, Use of Sarum

Additional masses of St. Michael and the feasts of the relics (fol. 1); calendar (fol. 3) with some added obits and notes; masses of Wednesday in Ember week of September (fol. 9), of St. Andrew and St. Bartholomew (fol. 10v); blessing of holy water (fol. 13); prefaces (fol. 14v) and canon (fol. 17), the latter with long rubrics; passion of Good Friday (fol. 25); unorderly collection of masses (fol. 29), taken mostly from the temporale, followed by some votive masses and the mass of the dead (fol. 54v); masses of the Conception (fol. 57), St. Ann, Sts. Philip and James, St. Lawrence; proses (fol. 62); mass of Palm Sunday (fol. 70) and the following Wednesday; masses mostly from the sanctorale (fol. 85) and the common (fol. 98v); votive masses (fol. 111); marriage service (fol. 112v); ritual for the Last Sacraments (fol. 120), commendation (fol. 124v); masses of the dead (fol. 127v) with burial service (fol. 133v); baptismal rite (fol. 139), including the blessing of the font (fol. 143); servitium peregrinorum (fol. 147). Additions: Ordo trigintalis (fol. 149v) and some votive masses (fol. 150).

Language(s): Latin with some Middle English.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 151 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): c. 160 × 100–118 mm.
Foliation: Fols. 13–56, 62–110 have an original foliation (i-xlvj, xlvij-iiijxxxviij)

Condition

Several leaves cut out, other damaged by cuttings.

Layout

2 cols.; fols. 1–112 of 25 lines, fol.113–49 of 26 lines.

Decoration

Initials (mutilated). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1111)

fol. 151r: miniature, half-figure of the Virgin (inscribed 'Ave maria').

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Perhaps made for use in the diocese of Durham: Northern English dialect in the marriage service; feast of St Oswin in red in the calendar, 20 August.

Agnes Roos, 1479, fol. 8

Notes on the Moore family of Church Oakley and Bramley (near Basingstoke), 1476–1582, including John More 1558–85

Notes on the Warham family at Beaurepaire (in Sherborne St John), 1581–95

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 (typescript) Vol. 1: Mass Books; Pächt and Alexander; and the Summary Catalogue; incorporating additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 515

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.