MS. Bodl. 477
Summary Catalogue no.: 2005
Contents
With a prologue; only the first of the two books is here.
Physical Description
Front endleaves: non-medieval pencil Roman numerals i-iv in top RH corner.
Main textblock: non-medieval black ink Arabic numerals 1-56 in top RH corner.
Back endleaves: non-medieval pencil Arabic numerals 57-63 in top RH corner.
Collation
Black ink Roman numerals at the ends of quires 1, 2, and 7.
Layout
2 columns, c. 45 lines per folio, lines c. 4mm high, plummet-ruled. Ruled space: 200 × 120 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in protogothic or early gothic textualis.
Decoration
Green, red, blue Arabesque initials c. four lines high at major divisions, for example fol. 1r or 11v. Green, red, blue, or brown smaller initials throughout. Initials of both types sometimes missing or unfinished.
See also Pächt and Alexander iii. 283).
Binding
s. xiii2
235 × 10 × 35 mm.
Endleaves: At the front, one partial non-fragment singleton, around three quarters of the width of the upper board, preceded by a stub; followed by fragments from two different manuscripts bound as if a quire of 4 with the third leaf a stub At the back, the final leaf of the last quire is blank; followed by three fragment folios rotated 90 degrees and folded in half as if in a quire of 6; followed by a singleton and a stub, between which sits a small loose piece of parchment.
Sewing: Sewn at four sewing stations (measured in mm): 5, 35, 90, 135, 185 from the top of the spine.
Boards: Wooden boards around 7mm thick, including cover. The sewing supports enter the boards through tunnels in their spine edge. Boards are bevelled and do not protrude beyond the bookblock.
Endbands: Braided light brown leather endbands.
Cover: Whittawed leather cover. Turn ins mostly pared, with lapped mitres at every corner apart from tongued mitre at top corner of lower board.
Fastenings and furniture: Remains of a leather strap (brown, 16mm wide) and two nails (one with head intact) at the centre of the foredge of upper board, with corresponding hole approximately at the centre of the lower board, both for a clasp.
Chaining: No evidence of chaining.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Osney Abbey: fols. ii and iv contain two (slightly imperfect) 13th cent. Latin lists of charters and groups of charters of property belonging to Osney abbey, and the ‘.D.’ on fol. iv verso is probably an Osney mark. In a similar hand to that of the second list is a title 'prima pars maiorum sacramentorum Hugonis de Sancto Victore', and a partly erased inscription probably implying that the volume belonged to Oseney. '...... ⟨ex⟩ dono Ricardi de Wrthe canonici nostri', about 1235, for Richard became abbot of Dorchester in 1236.
Windsor, collegiate chapel: pressmark ‘OK’, fol. iv verso. Medieval binding, no chain mark. (MLGB3)
'Thomas Breson', early 16th cent., on the inner front board.
'Thomas Clarke', 16th cent. (fol. iv), to whom the motto 'Aρκει σοι ἡ χάρις μου' [II Cor. 12.9] on fol. 1 may belong.
'Sum John Dauies 1601 ex dono Jo. Price' (fol. 55v, cf. ivv).
'D. D. Bibliothecæ Publicæ Oxon. Jo. Dauis S. Th. Doctor Ap. 22º 1616.'
MS. Bodl. 477 - endleaves (fols. ii and iv)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Discussed in H. E. Salter, Cartulary of Oseney Abbey (Oxford: The Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society, 1929), vol. 1, p. x.
Physical Description
Layout
2 columns (except for fol. iir, which has one column). Lines height: 5mm
Hand(s)
Cursive script with some Anglicana features.
Decoration
Fol. iir: Main text in red, with two-colour (green and red) initials, and black numbering in the inner margin.
Fol. iiv: Rubricated initials.
History
MS. Bodl. 477 - endleaves (fol. iii)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Sections of masses for the Saturday of the fourth week of Lent, and Passion Sunday, probably Sarum.
Physical Description
Layout
Written space: 175 × 85 mm. Margins of 10mm at the top, 45mm at the bottom, 25mm at the spine, and 50mm at the foredge. 26 written lines on recto with 5.5 lines of chant, 27 on verso with 6 lines for chant. Line height (in main text): 6mm
Hand(s)
Written in a protogothic or early gothic textualis script.
Gaps left for notation.
Decoration
Gaps left for initials, 2 lines high, at the start of sections of the mass that are not chant (also at the start of the introit for Passion Sunday).
Some faint plummet notes in an Anglicana hand
History
MS. Bodl. 477 - endleaves (fols. 57–62)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
2 columns.
Fols. 59r, 59v, 61r, 61v, 62r: ruled space 160 × 140 mm. 7mm between columns, and margins of 25mm at the top of the leaf, 40mm at the bottom, and 65mm at the foredge.
Fols. 57v 58r, 58v, 60r, 60v, 61r: ruled space 160 × 90 mm. 7mm between columns, and margins of 25mm at the top of the leaf, 40mm at the bottom, and 20mm at the foredge. Line height: 5mm.
Hand(s)
Written in a formal Anglicana script
History
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-14: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.