MS. Barlow 7
Summary Catalogue no.: 6419
Contents
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)
Physical Description
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Binding
Stamped brown leather, late 17th-century English work, rebacked.
History
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)
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-04-24: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)