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mei/00206909 Inc. b. X1 (pl. 4).
[00206909]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Inc. b. X1 (pl. 4).
ISTC No.im00644000
TitleMissale Aboense (Turku, Åbo)
ImprintLübeck : Bartholomaeus Ghotan, [after] 17 Aug. 1488
Provenance nameGough, Richard (1735-1809), 1735 - 1809 bequeathed to the Bodleian Library large sections of his collections, including the pre-Reformation service books, which are of particular note here; A Catalogue of Books Relating to British Topography and Saxon and Northern Literature Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library... by Richard Gough (Oxford, 1814); DNB; Macray 285-90; Craster 79; I. G.Philip, `The Bodleian Library', in Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford, 6 (Oxford, 1997), 585-97, at 591-2; Rosemary Sweet, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-century Britain (London and New York, 2004), ad indicem.
Provenance nameGough, Richard (1735-1809), 1735 - 1809 bequeathed to the Bodleian Library large sections of his collections, including the pre-Reformation service books, which are of particular note here; A Catalogue of Books Relating to British Topography and Saxon and Northern Literature Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library... by Richard Gough (Oxford, 1814); DNB; Macray 285-90; Craster 79; I. G.Philip, `The Bodleian Library', in Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford, 6 (Oxford, 1997), 585-97, at 591-2; Rosemary Sweet, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-century Britain (London and New York, 2004), ad indicem.