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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: PB 2-1920

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

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

Maker(s)

Editor: Herbert, John Alexander
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Hall, Frederick (printer)

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Description

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

Place(s) associated

  • Oxford

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1920) by Northumberland, Alan Ian Percy, Duke of

Dating

Production date: AD 1920

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 2-1920
Primary reference Number: 199956
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 27 November 2014 Updated: Thursday 27 November 2014 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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