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MS. Rawl. liturg. g. 2

Summary Catalogue no.: 15834

Contents

1.
Book of Hours
Language(s): Latin, Middle English
2.
Prayers and hymns, Use of Sarum
Language(s): Latin, Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 2 + 274 + 3 + i fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 105 × 75 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 729, pl. LXXII:

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

fol. 113r

  • Type initial
  • Subject Pink and blue initial on gold background, decorated with sprays of vine leaves and gold disks; head of Christ with cruciform halo (rubbed).
  • Type border (upper, left and lower margins)
  • Subject Border made of gold, pink and blue bars, decorated with foliage and gold disks (Penitential Psalms).

Pink and blue initials on gold background and borders made of gold, pink and blue bars, decorated with sprays of vine leaves and gold disks on fols. 93v, 98r, 101r, 104r, 108v, 146v and 188r.

Gold initials on pink and blue background with white arabesque and geometric designs; sprays of gold vine leaves extending into margins.

Blue and gold initials decorated with red and purple penwork.

Gold and blue line-endings.

Binding

Stamped leather on boards, injured. Original cover decorated with stamps associated with the Rood and Hunt Binder. Fragments of original binding applied to new cover. See Isabelle Pingree, ‘A Catalogue of the Bindings of the Fifteenth-Century Bookbinder Called the Rood and Hunt Binder’, The Library, 4.4 (2003), p. 387.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; English, East Anglia (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1895), with reference to published literature as cited. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973). Additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 513

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (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. 138

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-02-07: Jemima Bennett: Updated binding description.