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MS. Rawl. liturg. f. 13

Summary Catalogue no.: 15761

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Bayeux

Calendar (fol. 1)

Office of the Virgin (fol. 13)

Penitential Psalms (fol. 52v) with litany (fol. 63v)

Offices of the cross (fol. 69) and the Holy Ghost (fol. 76v)

Office of the dead (fol. 80v)

Pericopes from the gospels (fol. 110)

Mass of the Virgin (fol. 113), of the holy Ghost (fol. 115v), of the dead (fol. 117v)

The sorrows of the Virgin (fol. 121v) with a rubric in French

Commemorations (fol. 127v).

Additional prayer in French (fol. 139v).

Language(s): Middle French
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 137 + 3 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 115 mm.

Layout

1 col., 15 lines, written space 91 × 60 mm.

Decoration

Small illuminated capitals throughout; larger initials, coloured borders and illuminations at each Hour of the office of the Virgin and at the beginning of the other offices. Pächt and Alexander i. 737:

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; French, Normandy

Provenance and Acquisition

'Ex bibliotheca M. Ioannis Petite Melodunensis . Protonotarij Apostolici Officialis Baiocensis Canonici de Amayeio, 1687', a printed bookplate.

Armorial bookplate of N. J. Foucault.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Adapted (June 2024) from the following sources:
Pächt and Alexander (1966)
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 32
Summary Catalogue (1895).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 485

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (fol. 2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 32

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-06: Revised to incorporate all information in SC, Van Dijk, P and A.