Language(s): Latin with some Middle English
1. Fols. 1–4v:
Incipit: Omnibus dominicis per annum post primam et capitulum nisi in festis […] Exorzizo te creatura salis per deum + viuum
Explicit: omnes habitantes in hoc habitaculo Per cristum dominum nostrum Amen
Manual, York Use, ‘Benedictio salis et aque’ ed. W. G. Henderson, Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), 5*–6*. Henderson describes our MS at pp. xviii–xix.
2. Fols. 4v–18v:
Rubric: Ordo ad cathecuminum faciendum
Incipit: In primis inquirat sacerdos […] Signum sal + uatoris domini nostri ihesu cristi in frontem
Explicit: nisi in oracione et ieiunio sequatur Euangelium In principio
‘Ritus baptizandi’, ed. Manuale, 8*–16*.
3. Fols. 18v–30:
Rubric: Ordo ad sponsalia facienda sic incipit
Incipit: statuantur uir et mulier […] Ecce conuenimus hic fratres coram deo et angelis eius
Explicit: qui trinus est in numero et unus est in numine Amen
Ed. Manuale, 17*–26* (the vows and presentation of the ring in English, fols. 20, 20v–1).
4. Fols. 30–8v:
Rubric: Ordo ad seruicium peregrinorum faciendum
Incipit: In primis dicantur hij psalmi et preces sequentes […] Psalmus Ad te domine leuaui animam Psalmus Miserere mei
Explicit: cum corporalibus et eisdem uentilet in oculis eius cum dicit In nomine patris
With associated blessings, the last, for the eyes, ascribed to ‘Magister WILLIELMUS DE MONTIBUS ecclesie lincolnij cancellarius’ (cf. Sharpe, no. 2129 [795–6]), ; ed. Manuale, 26*–32*.
5. Fols. 38v–44v:
Rubric: Ordo ad uisitandum infirmum
Incipit: In primis induat se sacerdos superpellicio cum stola […] et cum antiphona Ne reminiscaris domine Psalmus | [fol. 39] Domine ne in furore tuo
Explicit: et salus et omnium peccatorum tuorum pius indultor Qui viuit et regnat cum deo patre
Ed. Manuale, 44*–8*. In this and the next six texts, a few later s. xv notes scattered in the margins.
6. Fols. 44v–51:
Incipit: Priusquam iniungatur infirmus incipiat sacerdos antiphonam Saluator mundi deinde dicatur Psalmus In te domine speraui
Explicit: omnes gentes uenturum expectant ad iudicium qui cum deo patre [form ending] Amen
‘De extrema unctione’, ed. Manuale, 48*–51*.
7. Fols. 51–3v:
Incipit: Cum uero anima in exitu dissolucione corporis […] Parce domine parce famulo tuo quem redimere dignatus es
Explicit: animam serui tui de gehenne incendijs et ab omnibus angustijs Amen
‘Commendatio animae in articulo mortis’, ed. Manuale, 52*–6*.
8. Fols. 53v–7:
Rubric: Sequatur commendacio animarum et dicatur in camera uel in aula […]
Incipit: Subuenite sancti dei occurrite angeli domini suscipientes animam eius
Explicit: hec porta domini iusti intrabunt in eam
Ed. Manuale, 56*–60*.
9. Fols. 57–88v:
Rubric: Quo pacto incipiantur uigilie mortuorum sicut inferius patebit
Incipit: Dicantur autem uigilie
Explicit: tu uenia misericordissime pietatis absterge Per cristum dominum nostrum
Ed. Manuale, 60*–74*.
10. Fols. 88v–93v:
Rubric: Ad missam pro defunctis dicatur hoc modo
Incipit: Officium Requiem eternam dona eis domine et lux
Explicit: hijs sacrificijs expiata saluacionis tue perpetuo munere gratuletur Psalmus
Ed. Manuale, 75*–80*.
11. Fols. 93v–105:
Incipit: Post missam accedat sacerdos ad caput defuncti […] | [fol. 94] Circumdederunt me gemitus mortis dolores inferni
Explicit: per misericordiam dei in pace requiescant Amen
‘Inhumatio defuncti’, ed. Manuale, 80*–5*
12. Fols. 105–8:
Incipit: In purificacione beate marie cantata hora vja. fiat benedictio luminis […] Bene + dic domine ihesu criste hanc creaturam cere supplicantibus nobis
Explicit: distribuantur cantore incipiente antiphonam Lumen ad te ut rn processionale continetur
‘Benedictio cereorum in Purificatione’, ed. A. Jefferies Collins, Manuale ad usum percelebris Ecclesiae Sarisburiensis, HBS 91 (1960), 7–9.
13. Fols. 108–10:
Rubric: Feria iiija. in capite ieiunij post vja
Incipit: In primis fiat sermo ad populum si placuerit Deinde prosternant se
Explicit: pugnaturi continencie muniamur auxilijs Per dominum tunc eat processio ut in processionale continetur
Ed. Collins, Manuale, 9–12.
14. Fols. 110–12v:
Incipit: Dominica in Ramis palmarum post aspercionem aque benedicte legatur […] In diebus illis Venerunt filij israel in helym ubi erant
Explicit: distribuantur palme et interim cantentur alleluia ut in processionale continetur
‘Benedictio frondium in dominica palmarum’, ed. Collins, Manuale, 12–14.
15. Fols. 112v–18v:
Incipit: Feria va. in cena domini in primis fiat reconsiliacio penitencium hoc modo ixa. cantata pergat […] Adest tempus o uenerande pontifex uotiuum afflictis
Explicit: mandatum dedit mihi pater sic facio Surgite eamus hinc
Ed. Collins, Manuale, 14–19.
16. Fols. 118v–21v:
Rubric: Sabbato in uigilia pasche congregatis clericis in choro dictaque hora ixa […]
Incipit: [fol. 119] Domine deus noster pater omnipotens lumen indeficiens conditor
Explicit: [120v] tibi perpetua suauitate redolere. Per dominum.
Final rubric: Postea impleatur thuribulum […] quam zozinius ⟨papa⟩ [erased] constituit
Ed. Collins, Manuale, 19–23.
17. Fols. 121r–121v:
Rubric: Forma ad absoluendum quemcunque […]
Incipit: Ego auctoritate dei patris et filii
Explicit: descendat super te et maneat semper. Amen.
Forms of Absolution, ed. Manuale, 107*–108*
18. Fols. 121v–123v:
Rubric: Quomodo homo uel mulier includi debeat […]
Incipit: Exuat te dominus veterem
Explicit: et sempiternis gaudeat institutis. Per dominum.
Servitium includendorum, ed. Manuale, 108*–109*
19. Fols. 123v–6v:
Rubric: De uisitacione infirmorum
Incipit: My dere sone in god þou hiest fast thi wai to godward there thou shalt see all
Explicit: I beseche the of merci wiche deniest to no man merci
IPMEP 460A, ed. from this MS, William Maskell, Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 2nd edn., 3 vols. (Oxford, 1882), 3:413–19;, and Manuale, 110*–12*.
Secundo Folio: sancti deus
Form: codex
Support: Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).
Extent: Fols.
iii + 126 + iii (numbered fols. iii bis, a mounted medieval leaf, and iv–v).
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 133 mm.
Collation
1–158 166. Catchwords toward the gutter; no signatures.
Layout
In long lines, 24 lines to the page. No prickings; bounded and ruled in pencil.
Hand(s)
Written in gothic textura quadrata. Punctuation by point, double point, and occasional punctus elevatus.
Decoration
Written in both red (liturgical instructions especially) and black, with music.
At major divisions, large champes (eight lines on fol. 1, others usually five lines) with demivinets (a full vinet on fol. 1) in violet, blue, gold leaf, orange, and green—all very faded through damp.
Within sections, major divisions marked by 2- and 3-line blue lombards on red flourishing (very occasional unflourished 3-line champes, e.g. fols. 61, 88v); smaller divisions alternate 1-line blue and red lombards on flourishing of the other colour.
Ornamental text ink strap capitals at the heads of musical portions, often with included human heads, more usually leaf forms.
Frequent 3-line extended blue paraphs on red flourishing.
See AT, no. 453 (45), dating s. xv2/4.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, three modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, one medieval vellum flyleaf pasted to paper and two modern paper flyleaves (iii bis, iv–v).
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Master coxe off Bugbroucke’ (fol. 121, upper margin, s. xv ex.), as well as a partially defaced English inscription ‘not in the ryght execusyon’ of hys ryghtwysnes’ (fol. 124v, lower margin).
‘A⟨.⟩tany bannyng’ (s. xvi med.); the opening of a will with several small bequests ‘In dei nomine Amen & Ego Will’ pha Condo testu. in hunc modum . . .’; ‘Thomas Royland’ (twice), in one case in a sentence identifying him as ‘a knave’ (fol. iii bis).
‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Richardj Butler Doctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northampt procurante Reuerendo in Cristo Patre Iohanne Episcopo Roffensi’ (fol. 2, upper margin). Followed by a notation of the volume as a ‘Missale’, partly erased (a similar identification in the upper margin, fol. 1).