Homiliary; English, 13th century, second quarter or middle

Title

Homiliary; English, 13th century, second quarter or middle

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. A. 411

Date

13th century, second quarter or middle

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment (HSOS)

Physical extent

ii (paper) + 84 + i (paper) leaves. Fol. 49 is a small inserted sheet, c. 115 × 145 mm.

Hands

Early Gothic book script (textualis); fols. 74-6 by a different hand.

Decoration

Decorated initial (?), damaged, fol. 1r.

Puzzle initial in red and blue, with penwork flourishing in red, fol. 23v; blue initials with red penwork, or vice versa, fols. 35v, 59v, 61r, 74r.

Plain coloured initials in red, green, and blue, typically of 2-4 lines.

Binding

19th-century stamped calf.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Boxgrove, Benedictine alien priory: 'Liber iste est Sancte Marie de Boxgraua. Qui eum celauerit, alienauerit, uel hunc titulum deleuerit, anathema sit.' (foot of fol. 1r, 13th century).

Unidentified collection: 729 (or 720?) on fol. 1r.

Thomas Rawlinson, 1681-1725

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Title

Homiliary for Lent (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. A. 411

Date

mid 13th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 item