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Missale — London, Carmelite convent.


Provenance: London, Carmelite convent.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Additional 29704, 29705, 44892
Author/Title: Missale
Type of evidence: l: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar
Notes on evidence:

Fragments of a Carmelite missal.

Date: s. xiv ex.
Ownership:

Sold Evans 5 Aug. etc. 1833 lot 1525* (Hanrott sale).

Evans 18 May etc. 1874 lot 1561 (Titel sale).

Add. 44892 bought from the Hanrott in 1936.

Notes:

The three British Library MSS. Add. 29704–5 & 44892 have been constructed as one. The Glasgow MS. BD.19.h.9 (now Euing 26) was part of the same book. Another volume of cuttings has been found in London, Private Collection, 2.

Two vols. of borders, initials, etc., now reconstructed. Cf. E. Millar, Engl. Illum. MSS., 2. 271, and M. Rickert, "The reconstruction of an English Carmelite missal", Burlingon Magazine 67 (Sept. 1935) 99–113: "made probably for Whitefriars, London"; M. Rickert, "Reconstruction of an English Carmelite missal", Speculum 16 (1941) 92–108.