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

MS. Barlow 7

Summary Catalogue no.: 6419

Contents

Pontifical of the Abbot of Evesham, with music

The chief contents are:

The services for baptism (p. 32); ordination and profession (p. 45); marriage (p. 63); benedictions (p. 81); processions (p. 101); and the offices of the sick and dead (p. 185)

15th-century forms of prayers (p. iv); for the installation of a new abbot (p. v); for confraternity (p. vii); absolution from excommunication (p. ix); for Henry IV and his queen Joanna and for Margaret, wife of Henry VI (altered to Elizabeth, for Edward IV), and her son Edward, prince of Wales (p. xi)

(Edited by H. A. Wilson for the Henry Bradshaw Society (vol. vi, 1893), with the additional matter on pp. iv-xiv there printed in appendix)

Also a table of contents by Thomas Barlow (p. xiii)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
xiv + 276 pages
Dimensions (binding): 12.75 × 8.375 in.
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Illuminated capitals.

Binding

Stamped brown leather, late 17th-century English work, rebacked.

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Evesham, Worcestershire, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Egwin: (MLGB3)

'Liber Thomae Barlow è Coll. Reg. Oxon. Anno MDCLi.'

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691 by Thomas Barlow (Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1043)

Record Sources

Description adapted (April 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1937)

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 41

Last Substantive Revision

2023-04-24: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)