MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 43
Summary Catalogue no.: 15591
Contents
Missal, Use of Sarum
Sanctorale (fol. 1); proses of St. Andrew and St. Nicholas (fol. 80); prefaces and canon (fol. 81); common of the saints (fol. 88) and votive masses (fol. 126).
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 159 (161) + 2 + i fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 147 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 95 mm.
Layout
2 col. of 30 lines
Musical Notation:
Square notation on the feast of the Purification (fol. 10), 2 col. of 10 red staves of 4 lines.
Decoration
Good borders, initials. (P&A iii. 728)
Illuminated capitals and borders on fols. 1, 11v, 46v.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Thomas Hearne, 1678-1735: inscribed by him, 1731.
Bequeathed by Hearne to William Bedford.
Purchased from Bedford's widow by Richard Rawlinson, 1690-1755, probably in 1748, and bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.
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.
Bibliography
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 728