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MS. Gough Liturg. 16

Summary Catalogue no.: 18334

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
2 + 89 + 1 leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 147 × 100 × 40 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 95 mm.
Foliation: Later pencil foliation on top right of recto side (including endleaves).

Collation

1–9(8); 10(7); 11–19(8)

Layout

76 × 49 mm.

Hand(s)

One scribe writing in Northern Textualis, in a dark brown ink.

Musical Notation:

Square notation on long staves of 4 red lines (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue ink of three lines in height found on fols. 7r, 8v, 9r, 10r, 11v, 12v, 15r, 15v, 16r, 17r, 17v, 18v, 21v, 23r, 24v, 26r, 26v, 28v, 30v, 31v, 33r, 34v, 36v, 38r, 39v, 41r, 42v, 47v, 49r, 50v, 51v, 53v, 54v, 55v, 56r, 57v, 58v, 59v, 60r, 60v, 61r, 61v, 62v, 64r, 65r, 66r, 67r, 70v, 71v, 72v, 74v, 76v, 77r, 77v, 78v, 79v, 80v, 81r, 81v, 82v, 83r, 83v, 84r, 85r, 86r, 86v, 87v, 88r, 89r, and 90v.

Coloured initials in red and blue ink of one line in height found on fols. 7r, 7v, 8r, 8v, 9v, 10r, 10v, 11v, 14r, 18r, 18v, 26r, 26v, 27r, 27v, 28r, 29v, 30r, 35r, 35v, 36r, 37r, 37v, 38v, 39r, 47v, 48r, 49v, 50r, 52v, 53r, 55v, 56v, 58r, 62r, 64r, 64v, 65v, 66r, 67r, 67v, 67v, 68r, 72r, 73r, 73v, 74v, 75v, and 76r.

Initials in the same ink as the text of two lines in height found on fol. 3r, 4v, and 5v.

Additions: Six lines of text added to fol. 6v by a later hand in a more cursive script. In the same light-brown ink, decoration is added to a coloured initial at the top of the same page, making it look like a tree.

Binding

White leather on boards, contemporary.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

William Herbert, 1718-1795; probably lot 902 in his sale, 21 Nov. 1798.

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources.
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 290

2025-06-12: Additional data collected by Emma Cameron and Blodwyn Hall-Jones as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 12th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 3rd July 2025.

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 64

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-06-12: Additional data collected by Emma Cameron and Blodwyn Hall-Jones as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 12th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 3rd July 2025.