Missal ('The Abingdon Missal') — 1461; English, Oxford (?)
MS. Digby 227
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Missal ('The Abingdon Missal') — 1461; English, Oxford (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Digby 227
Date
1461
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
2 + 270 + 2 fol.
Decoration
Fine miniature.
Fine border.
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials.
Musical notation
Square notation on 7 staves of 4 red lines.
Acquisition
Donated by him to the Bodleian, 1634.
Provenance
Border decoration similar to that in Merton College MSS. 59, 62, 64, 65, perhaps suggesting common production in a workshop based in Oxford (Scott, 1996).
Fol. 270v: 'Scriptori merita mater pia redde Maria | Annis millenus quadringenus tibi notus | Et sexagenus primus tunc ecce repletus.
Fol. 11v, 'Dedicacio ecclesie Abendone'.
Arms of Abingdon Abbey and its abbot William Ashenden, fol. 113v.
Thomas Allen, Digby/Allen inventory number A. 5.
Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665
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Title
Officia divina [in usum abbatiae de Abingdon, in com. Bercheriensi]
Shelfmark
MS. Digby 227
Summary
[MS. Trin. Coll. Oxon. 75 is a companion-vol. E. W. B. N.]
Date
1461
Language
Latin
English
Physical extent
270 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 1486 acquired by the Bodleian Library (102). Belonged in whole or in part to Thomas Allen of Gloucester Hall.
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Collection contents
Officia divina [in usum abbatiae de Abingdon, in com. Bercheriensi]
