Ritual, Use of Sarum, Commendation and Mass of the Dead, including a Litany — 14th century, early; English
MS. Lat. liturg. f. 25
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Description
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Title
Ritual, Use of Sarum, Commendation and Mass of the Dead, including a Litany — 14th century, early; English
Missal — 13th century, second half; English
Office of the Dead — 15th century; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. liturg. f. 25
Place of origin
English
Date
15th century
13th century, second half
14th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment, poor quality; the fore-edge margin of fols. 66–75 sliced away
Physical extent
i + 81 leaves
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Binding
Late 15th cent. Sewn on three double bands of twisted skin laced into an oak boards; the upper two bands in converging channels, the lower band in a horizontal channel; the lower board missing; the upper board with rounded edges; covered with plain skin, perhaps a chemise construction; with a single red leather strap at the centre of the fore-edge: apparently a strap and pin fastening; boxed.
Acquisition
Bequeathed by him, 1941.
Provenance
Found in the wall of West Lavington church, Wilts.
A. G. W. Murray
E. F. Bosanquet: his account of the manuscript's history with photographic reproductions is in Wilts. Arch and Nat. Hist. Magazine, XL (1940), 142–7.
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