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MS. Auct. D. 4. 7

Summary Catalogue no.: 1961

Contents

Breviary, Bridgettine
(fol. v)
Sarum calendar

With additions connecting the volume with Syon monastery at Isleworth: see Provenance.

(fol. 1)
Rubric: Ordo seruicij sororum ordinis Sancti Saluatoris traditus et ordinatus ex precepto sanctissime matris Birgitte ... per magistrum Petrum Olaui confessorem ipsius ...

The peculiar hebdomadal service or breviary of the Bridgettines, with its modifications according to the feasts and time of year

(fol. 73)
Psalter
(fol. 139v)
Canticles
(fol. 150)
Horae Sancti Spiritus

With other additions, including a prayer for the founder (fol. 164v), in a hand of the middle of the 15th cent.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: xi + 177 (ii + 1 + i + 6 + i + 167 + vii + 1 + ii ) leaves
Dimensions (binding): 7.625 × 5.5 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 174 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 129 × 90 mm.

Decoration

Fine borders.

Historiated initials.

Other initials. Fols. 150–67 additions of 15th century, middle, with historiated initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 938, pl. LXXXIX)

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter and middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Syon Abbey: addition to the calendar, Oct. 20 'Dedicacio ecclesie de Syon'; see also Oct. 12; 'Obitus fratris Thome Fischburne primi confessoris generalis huius monasterij de Syon' (Sept. 13) is at fol. ix: and an obit of 'Elyzabethe Fetyplace 1556 [?]' on May 21: see Aungier's History of Syon (1840), p. 99 n.

Presented by Thomas Manwaring of Brasenose college on Dec. 18, 1613.

MS. Auct. D. 4. 7 - endleaves (fols. iii, 175)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (April 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , III (1973), no. 938 [decoration, origin, date]
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 14
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition, endleaves]
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 134

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.