Pontifical of the Abbot of Evesham, with music — c. 1300; England
MS. Barlow 7
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Pontifical of the Abbot of Evesham, with music — c. 1300; England
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 7
Date
c. 1300
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
xiv + 276 pages
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Binding
Stamped brown leather, late 17th-century English work, rebacked.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691 by Thomas Barlow (Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1043)
Provenance
Evesham, Worcestershire, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Egwin: ( MLGB3)
'Liber Thomae Barlow è Coll. Reg. Oxon. Anno MDCLi.'
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Title
The Pontifical of the abbot of Evesham
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 7
Summary
The Pontifical of the abbot of Evesham, with music, written about 1300, edited by H. A. Wilson for the Henry Bradshaw Society (vol. vi, 1893), with the additional matter on pp. iv-xiv there printed in appendix. The chief contents are:
The services for baptism (p. 32), ordination and profession (p. 45), marriage (p. 63), benedictions (p. 81), processions (p. 101), and the offices of the sick and dead (p. 185)
15th-cent. forms of prayers (p. iv), for the installation of a new abbot (p. v), for confraternity (p. vii), absolution from excommunication (p. ix), for Henry iv and his queen Joanna and for Margaret, wife of Henry vi (altered to Elizabeth, for Edward iv), and her son Edward, prince of Wales (p. xi)
Also a table of contents by Thomas Barlow (p. xiii)
Date
Written about 1300 in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment with illuminated capitals, etc. Binding, stamped brown leather, late 17th-cent. English work, rebacked
Physical extent
276 pages
Custodial history
'Liber Thomae Barlow e Coll. Reg. Oxon. Anno mDCLi.'
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Collection contents
The Pontifical of the abbot of Evesham
