A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Barlow 33

Summary Catalogue no.: 6488

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
2 + 21 + 164 + 4 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 130 mm.

Layout

Fols. xi-xv, 1-63: 26 lines, 133 × 79 mm.

Fols. 73-164: 25-27 long lines, 117/122 × 74 mm.

Decoration

Fine miniatures by the Master of the Beaufort Saints, much damaged. (Pächt and Alexander i. 309)

Binding

Red leather on bevelled boards, with one clasp, now lost, 15th-cent. English work, rebacked.

History

Origin: 15th century, first quarter ; Flemish

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1937). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (6 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. 194

Last Substantive Revision

2025-04-22: Sebastian Dows-Miller. Normalised measurement encoding.