Missale ('Litlington Missal') — Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter.
| Provenance: | Westminster, Middlesex. Benedictine abbey of St Peter. |
| Location: | Westminster Abbey, London |
| Shelfmark: | 37 |
| Author/Title: | Missale ('Litlington Missal') |
| Type of evidence: | i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership) |
| Date: | 1383–1384 |
| Medieval Catalogue Notes: | Inv. 1388, 1; 1540, p. 343 |
| Ownership: | Given by Dr John Dolben, Dean, in 1663; see Robinson and James, MSS. of Westminster Abbey, p. 40. |
| Notes: | Printed H.B.S., Missale ad usum ecclesie Westmonasteriensis, ed. J. Wickham Legg (1891–1897); 2 facs. in N.P.S. 2. 196–197. 'The illuminated borders ... frequently bear the cypher ... N. L. crowned.' Lytlington's coat of arms also appears. 2o folio 'ad te levavi' agrees with 1540 inventory no. 1: 'Masse booke of Abbott Nicholas Lytlyngton's qyffte, ii folio ad te leuaui'. |