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Gibbs 229

Printed, with a manuscript addition on the verso of last folio (plainchant melody with the incipit 'miserere').

Gibbs 229
Hymnorum cum notis opusculum usui insignis ecclesie Sarum subserviens. ...
Antwerp: [colophon:] in officina vidue Christophori Ruremundenum impressum: sumptibus et impensis Joannis Coccii, 1541 (July)
Added in MS at rear: chant melody 'Miserere'.

Upright format, 205 x 145 mm. Mid 16th-century binding of brown leather over boards, blind-tooled with ornamental panels on the upper and lower covers; rebacked and repaired in the 20th century.

Provenance: titlepage inscribed 'Robertus Boulton' (? = the clergyman Robert Bolton, 1572-1631, on whom see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Subsequent ownership not traced. Purchased in 1925 from P. M. Barnard by Kenneth Gibbs (1856-1935), sometime Archdeacon of St. Albans, whose collection of liturgical texts was presented to Christ Church by his widow in 1946.

Microfilm: not included in the standard microfilm series.

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