Breviary of Chertsey Abbey, Temporale from Sunday after the octave of the Epiphany to the end. — 14th century, beginning; English
MS. Lat. liturg. e. 37
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Breviary of Chertsey Abbey, Temporale from Sunday after the octave of the Epiphany to the end. — 14th century, beginning; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. liturg. e. 37
Place of origin
English
Date
14th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii (modern parchment) + 156 + iii (modern parchment)
Decoration
Historiated initial on a ground of gold and blue (fol.1) showing the angel releasing St. Peter.
With partial border.
Smaller gold initials on blue and rose grounds.
Many small blue and gold flourished initials
Binding
Modern brown blind-tooled leather over pasteboards, c.1910, signed on the upper pastedown by '[J. & J.] LEIGHTON. BREWER ST. W.'
Acquisition
bought by the Bodleian of Martin Breslauer, Catalogue 92, 1960, item 28.
Provenance
Chertsey Abbey
J. & J. Leighton, Catalogue of Manuscripts, Mostly Illuminated Many in Fine Bindings, c. 1914 (?Not later than 1915), [Bod. 2593 e. 952/ii] no. 46 (not no. 36, as stated by Alexander), apparently sold by/during Nov. 1915, to judge by annotations in the company's file copy of the catalogue at the Bodleian [Bod. ref. as above]
Wilfred Merton (1889–1957)
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