IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 199956 accession number: PB 2-1920 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 27 November 2014 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 34 pages, 1 leaf : colour frontispiece, xxx plates (facsimiles) ; 52 cm object type: 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. 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/199956 TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1920 - 1920 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1920 CREATORS -------- maker: Herbert, John Alexander maker: Roxburghe Club maker: Hall, Frederick (printer)