Missal, Use of Sarum — Multiple dates; English, East Anglia (?)
MS. Hatton 1
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Missal, Use of Sarum — Multiple dates; English, East Anglia (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Hatton 1
Place of origin
English, East Anglia (?)
Date
fols. 218–224v addition, mid-15th century
14th century, end
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
2 + 224 + 3 fol.
Decoration
Fine borders.
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials.
Musical notation
Square notation on 18 staves of 4 red lines.
Binding
Contemporary binding of whittawed leather on boards.
Acquisition
Bought with his library by the Bodleian through the London bookseller Robert Scot in 1671.
Provenance
Made for use in the diocese of Norwich (dedication of the cathedral in the calendar, 24 Sept.), but not for the cathedral, since both feasts of St Benedict are in black in the calendar. Non-Sarum but synodal feasts in the calendar (see also fols. 151, 154 and 178).
16th-century price, fol. 1
Christopher, first Baron Hatton (d. 1670)
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