MS. Bodl. 553
Summary Catalogue no.: 2314
Physical Description
Composite: fols. i, 43 || fols. 1–41
Musical Notation:
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Binding
Old boards re-covered in London late in the 16th cent.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Presented by 'Edwarde Fletewoode' in 1601.
MS. Bodl. 553 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good historiated initial (defaced). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 555)
History
MS. Bodl. 553 – Part 2
Contents
(fol. 39v)
Perilous days Incipit: Les mestres ky cest art controuverent i anumbrerent les mauves jours et les perillous qui sunt en l'an ; et ki unkes en nul de ces jours en enfermeté cherra, ja ne resourdra
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander i. 488)
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 44
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.