Physical description: On parchment. i + 196 + 1 leaves, foliated 1-198 including two blank leaves ruled in red. 150 x 105 mm.
Contents: Use of Paris. Written for use by a woman.
Decoration: Eleven 11-line pictures: 9 in Hours of the B.V.M. (picture for vespers missing) and 1 before penitential Psalms and the Office of the Dead; four smaller pictures in the Gospel sequences; with continuous framed floral borders. Initials: blue patterned in white on gold and colours, 2-line blue or pink patterned in white on gold and colours, with floral borders in outer margin; 1-line gold on blue or pink patterned in white. With flowers and fruit on gold on f.2. 24. 43v. Capital letters filled with yellow; line fillers of red and blue with white and gold.
Binding: 18th century red morocco lettered 'Missale romanum' and bird and shell devices of Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725).
Provenance date unknown: Two sets of arms appear separately and together on 28r, 66r, 113r and 132v.
Provenance 1700-1725: Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725).
Provenance 1800-1900: entry in 19th century bookseller's catalogue (price £28).
Provenance c.1890-1938: Gregson Memorial Institute.
Provenance 1938-: Transferred to the University of Liverpool from the Gregson Institute, Wavertree, 1938.
1983: N. R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
Medieval Manuscripts on Merseyside,1993. University Art Gallery, Liverpool and Courtauld Institute Galleries, London. Item 16.
Microfilm copy available for consultation.
