Pontifical, Use of Sarum — between 1315 and 1329; English
MS. Rawl. C. 400
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Pontifical, Use of Sarum — between 1315 and 1329; English
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. C. 400
Place of origin
English
Date
between 1315 and 1329
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 585)
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
Provenance
Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see removed from Sherborne in 1078: 'Hunc librum legavit dominus Rogerus de Martivall Saresbirien. episcopus ecclesie cathedrali beate Marie Saresbirien ita quod loci episcopus qui pro tempore fuerit habeat usum eius si illlum habere voluerit, cui tradatur per bonam memorandam, proprietate ipsius penes dictum ecclesiam remanente. Et mortuo quolibet episcopo loci qui eius usum habuerit dicte ecclesie fideliter restituatur' (fol. 1r, at foot). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
George Harbin 1715. (MLGB3)
Roger Mortival, Bp. 1315–1330. (MLGB3)
Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755
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