MS. Holkham misc. 22

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Regimen animarum; English, 15th century

Language(s): Latin

1. (fols. iiir–)

Rubric: Constitucio [Rogeri] Walden Cant. archiepiscopi de festis sanctorum David Cedde Edwardi et Wenefrede ac ccommemoracio[ne] sancti Thome martyris ...

(pr. Concilia magnae Britannicae, III, pp, 234B-235A), ending imperfect at '... laudabiliter observari ||'.

Regimen animarum

Rubric: Incipit liber qui vocatur animarum regimen compilatus in anno Mº CCC^moXLiiiº

Incipit: (preface) O vos omnes sacerdotes qui laboratis

Incipit: (text) Cleros Grece sors vel hereditas

Explicit: per dexteram manum in manu sua dextera

Part II begins on fol. 97r, and part II on fol. 135r; lacking between part I ch. XII and XVII due to the loss of two quires after fol. 38; further leaves are missing after fols. 31, 32, 44, 133, and four leaves after fol. 148.

3. (fols. 169r–v, 171r–v)

Easter tables for 1470–1646

note

Incipit: Legitur in epistolis Grecorum

Added on formerly blank leaves.

4. (fols. 173r–)

Hexameters

Incipit: Cum timor est sine spe tunc desperacio ledit

(WIC 3849)

Note

Incipit: Sex sunt de quibus semper cogitare debemus

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: piunt et infideles

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii (paper) + 174 + iii (paper).

Dimensions (leaf): 270–80 × 205 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 205–10 × 140–5 mm.

Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil: i-iv, 1–176.

Collation

1(8)-3(8), 4(8) (wants 8), 5(8) (wants 2), 6 and 7 missing, 8(8) (wants 7 and 8), 9(8) - 17(8), 18(8) (2 canc.), 19(8), 20(8) (wants 3), 21(8), 22(8) (wants 4–6), 23(8), 24(8), 25(8) (7 and 8 canc.), quires numbered on last leaf, but numbers mostly cut off by binder

Layout

2 columns, frame ruling

Scribe I: 35–6 written lines per page

Scribe II: 46–9 written lines per page

Hand(s)

By two main hands, scribe I writes up to fol. 92v, scribe II writes the remainder.

Decoration

Plain red initials

Binding

Typical Holkham binding; the spine lettered in gilt 'REGIMEN | ANIMARUM || MS | [remainder covered by Bodleian label, probably: SÆC. XV | 166'.

History

Origin: English ; 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas Honde, 16th century: inscribed 'Sum codex Thome Honde' (fol. 172v), 'Thomas Honde est possessor huius libri' (and many other inscriptions with his name).

Bookplate of 'THOMAS WILLIAM COKE', and signed 'Thos Willm. Coke' (fol. i verso); formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 166.

Record Sources

Draft description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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