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
Editor:
Herbert, John Alexander
Publisher:
Roxburghe Club
Printer:
Hall, Frederick (printer)
Oxford: Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club [at the University Press, by Frederick Hall] ; 1920.
Presented to the Roxburghe club "in pursurance of his late father's wish and purpose, by the Duke of Northumberland."
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. Introduction.
34 pages, 1 leaf : colour frontispiece, xxx plates (facsimiles) ; 52 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1920) by Northumberland, Alan Ian Percy, Duke of
Production date: AD 1920
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 2-1920
Primary reference Number: 199956
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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