Manuscript Requiem Offices of Syon Abbey

Item date: late 15th century
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 20,000
Item date acquired: 1995
Item institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

A unique unpublished witness to the Syon Abbey requiem offices; it includes the liturgy used at the death bed of the Nuns and the offices of the dead include obits for Henry V, Edward IV and their queens and for other benefactors. The MS is still in its original binding, probably the work of the Syon binder Thomas Raille. Illustrated at p.11 of AR