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MS. Add. A. 197

Summary Catalogue no.: 29175

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 1)
Liber usuum (Cistercian consuetudinary) (part 1)
Rubric: Ecclesiastica Officia
(fol. 102)
Carta caritatis (part 1)

With the prologue, Antiquam abbacie cisterciensis.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 105 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × c. 163 mm.
Dimensions (written): c. 170–88 × 110–15 mm.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

Some flourished initials (fols. 8v, 13v, 21, 22v, 56v, 73, 79v, etc.)

Binding

Blind-stamped white whittawed leather over boards, 14th cent. (?), rebacked.

Accompanying Material

  • Fol. 1, fly-leaf from a late 12th-century Latin theological commentary.
  • Fol.105, from a 12th-century missal or sacramentary, contains some votive masses.

History

Origin: 1203 × 1218 ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

The feast of St Barnabas, ordered 'cum duabus missis' in 1203, appears in the hand of the original scribe. The feast of SS John and Paul, raised in 1218, was added on fol. 30. Cf. J.-M. Canivez, Statuta capitulorum generalium ordinis cisterciensis I (1933) 284, 485.

Cistercian abbey of Acquafredda, Lenno, Como, 15th cent. (fol. 1)

Bought at the William Bragge sale (Sotheby's, 10 Nov. 1880), lot. 1359, for £3 10s.

Record Sources

Adapted (2017) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts; S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957); and the Summary Catalogue (1905).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 576

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 12
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 241
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 251

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.