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Missale ('The Sherborne Missal') — Sherborne, Dorset. Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin; seat of bishopric until A. D. 1078.


Provenance: Sherborne, Dorset. Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin; seat of bishopric until A. D. 1078.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Add. 74236
Author/Title: Missale ('The Sherborne Missal')
Type of evidence: l: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar
Notes on evidence:

The Sherborne Missal (Roxburghe Club, 1920), ed. J. A. Herbert. Provenance certain from notes and liturgical character.

Date: s. xiv/xv (c. 1400)
Ownership:

Given by Léonor Goyon de Matignon, Bp. of Lisieux to Foucault in 1703. Later belonged to the Abbe de Rothelin and to de Selle.

G. G. Mills, 1797; sale 1800 no. 1450.

Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland