The Sherborne missal
Subtitle: reproductions of full pages and details of ornament from the missal executed between the years 1396 and 1407 for Sherborne abbey church and now preserved in the library of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick castle
By: with an introduction by J. A. Herbert.
Contributors: Herbert, J. A. 1862-1948, ed.; Northumberland, Alan Ian Percy, Duke of, 1880-1930.; Siferwas, John, fl. 1390-1400.; Was, John, fl. 1390-1400.; Roxburghe Club.; Sherborne Abbey.
Publisher: Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe club [at the University press, by F. Hall]
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc; Manuscripts -- England -- Facsimiles; Paleography, English; Birds -- England -- Pictorial works
Description: Oxford, Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe club [at the University press, by F. Hall] 1920.
Notes: Presented to the Roxburghe club "in pursurance of his late father's wish and purpose, by the Duke of Northumberland."
One of the great monuments of English illumination; the scribe being a Benedictine monk named John Was or Whas, and the illuminator-in-chief, a Dominican friar, John Siferwas, or Syferwas, and the patrons, Richard Mitford, bishop of Salisbury, and Robert Bruyning, abbot of Sherborne. cf. Introd.