Shelfmark
P.Rox.1920.OS
Main entry--corporate name
Uniform title
[Missal (Ms. Sherborne)]
Title
The Sherborne missal : reproductions of full pages and details of ornament from the missal executed between the years 1396 and 1407 for Sherborne abbey church and now preserved in the library of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle / with an introduction by J. A. Herbert.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, MCMXX [1920].
Physical description
34, [2] p., xxx leaves of plates : facsims. ; 52 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
One of the great monuments of English illumination; the scribe being a Benedictine monk named John Was or Whas, and the illuminator-in-chief, a Dominican friar, John Siferwas, or Syferwas, and the patrons, Richard Mitford, bishop of Salisbury, and Robert Bruyning, abbot of Sherborne. cf. Introd.
Note
Presented to the Roxburghe Club "in pursurance of his late father's wish and purpose, by the Duke of Northumberland."
Note
Facsimile.
Note
20th century dark brown leather half-binding with covered boards; gilt top-edge; title stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
M. R. James's copy.
Provenance
Circular Eton bookplate on front pastedown.
Subject
Birds England Pictorial works.
Subject
Paleography, English.
Subject
Manuscripts England Facsimiles.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts Specimens.
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Herbert, J. A. (John Alexander), 1862 - 1948 (John Alexander), editor.
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England Oxford.
Identifier
B44728