MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Guardbook of liturgical fragments acquired 1976-2021
Physical Description
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17, fol. 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Masses for the dead: prayers, secrets and postcommunions 'pro femina defuncta', 'pro familiaribus feminis', 'pro quiescentibus in cimiterio', 'pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis'. As printed The Sarum Missal, ed. J. W. Legg, 440.30-442.14.
Rubric, prayer, secret and postcommunion for the 'Trental of St Gregory' (see R. Pfaff, 'The English devotion of St Gregory's Trental', Speculum 49 (1974), 75-90 esp. 82-4)
Mass for the Name of Jesus, as pr. Missale secundum vsum ecclesie Sarum (1497; ISTC im00721000), fol. cxcij v
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in ink for 2 cols. of more than 39 lines (perhaps originally 41 lines); width of the ruled area 177 mm. with 15 mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand (textualis formata)
Decoration
2-line blue initials with penwork flourishing in red.
History
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 19, fols. 2a-b
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The leaf with parts of weekly votive masses De trinitate and De sapientia (feria ii); the strip with parts of masses for Quinquagesima and Lent.
Fols. 2c-d are photostats of the strip and leaf when still pasted together, July 1993.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 21 lines; ruled with a hard point with double vertical bounding lines. Ruled space 185 × 115 mm. (125 mm. to the outer vertical bounding lines).
Hand(s)
Late Caroline minuscule
Decoration
Coloured initials.
History
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17, fol. 3
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Lections v (part), vi-ix for the Invention of St Stephen (3 Aug.), ‘⟨de⟩uotionem eius et credens me partem cum eo ... omnia que mihi mandasti dictaturus’
BHL 7853, as pr. PL 41.810, 812, 814, beginning in c. 3, ending in c. 5Followed by part of the first lection for St Oswald king and martyr (5 Aug.), beginning:
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in plummet for 2 cols. of 32 lines. Ruled space 235 × 155 mm. with 10 mm. between columns. The ruling is too faint to determine whether the text is written above or below top line.
Hand(s)
Protogothic
Decoration
Two-line initials alternately in red and blue with penwork flourishing in the contrasting colour.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly a pastedown in a binding; according to a pencil note on the fragment, from a copy of Ovid, Opera, in an English (?Oxford) binding.
Bought from Maggs Bros., Cat. 982 (1977)
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17, fols. 4-5a
Contents
Language(s): Latin
part of Gregory the Great, Hom. in evangelia, 2.33: ‘]lapsi non sumus. Et si censura ... non didisti. Hec autem[’
recto: part of Haimo of Auxerre, Hom. de tempore, hom. 125 (PL 673C-674B)
verso: end of hom. 125 (PL 118.674CD) and beginning of hom. 126 (PL 118.675AB)
Fol. 5b is a photostat of fol. 5a with the present fols. 6-8 still attached.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in plummet for 2 columns of more than 26 lines; width of the ruled space 240 mm. with 37 mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Late Caroline minuscule.
Decoration
4-line initial Q in green, blue, yellow and red with vine-scroll decoration, fol. 5v.
History
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17, fols. 6-8
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Protogothic
Notation on staves of fourlines.
Decoration
Coloured initial.
History
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17, fol. 9, with fols. 10-11
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fol. 10 is labelling cut from the former mount of fol. 9; fol. 11 is a xerox of the backing of the mount, showing numbers '42' and '252'.
Physical Description
Layout
24 lines of text beneath two lines of musical notation; the verso with 2 lines of musical notation and heraldry underneath.
Hand(s)
Southern textualis
Square notation on staves of 4 lines.
Decoration
Historiated initials: one with landscape, two others with angel and human figure.
(verso) heraldic arms: party per pale gules and sable, a lion rampant or.
History
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17, fol. 12
Contents
recto: ‘desolationis que dicta est a Daniele propheta […] O(melia) Ieronymi. Quando ad intelligentiam […] lectio ii. […] lectio iii […] Ad matutinas. Antiphona. Amen dico uobis […] ⟨…⟩sol das wissen. ob die kalenda. an dem ⟨…⟩|alder an dem after mœntag […] alle wege nach sex⟨.⟩ kalendo d⟨…⟩’
verso: ‘haizzer decemb’. an der næhesten do⟨…⟩|sol man began. ¶ An den samstag ⟨…⟩|heste der kalende der Ogeste. Ad matutinas. […] ¶ An der dominic der næhsten ⟨…⟩|⟨ka⟩lenden. Ogestenso vahet man an div⟨…⟩ […] Septembris. lectio prima. Parabole salamonis filii Dauid regis Israhel […] lectio ii. […] lectio iii. […] lectio iiii. Pedes enim eorum in malum currunt […] in capite turbarum’
The verso has the beginning of the summer ‘historie’, with readings from the biblical book of Wisdom (Sapientia).
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in plummet and written in two columns of 36 lines, column space 290 × 95 mm. ; space between lines 7mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand, the main Latin text written in two sizes according to liturgical function, with Latin rubrics in red; the other liturgical directions, in German, are underlined in red. The script is fully Gothic with fusing of adjacent round letters such as ‘be’, ‘bo’, ‘de’, ‘dd’, ‘oc’, ‘pe’, ‘po’, and ‘pp’, ‘d’ is always sloping, not upright, round ‘s’ is 8- shaped, but tall ‘s’ is also present, even at the beginning of words.
Decoration
One cropped ‘puzzle’ initial in blue and red, with penwork ornament in both colours.
Two-line initials and paraphs are alternately blue or red.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Almost certainly made for a community of female religious; a rare survival of a large-format liturgical book for communal use with a significant quantity of vernacular text.
From a binding. All four corners are cut away, so that when folded over they do not overlap and can instead be mitred; the four outer folds are clear; the folded-over parts, that would have acted as turn-ins, are less dirty than the parts that remained on the outside of the volume; there are pairs of slits near what would have been the fore-edges, through which ties would have been threaded; the pair of central horizontal creased demarcate an area that is especially darkened because this was the outward-facing spine of the volume; if turned 90 degrees it can be seen that the spine was initially volume “100” is a series, but this number was later crossed-through and replaced with “627”; the other side, which would have been the inner face, has an all-over brown colour caused by the glue used to attach the leaf to the pasteboards of the binding, of which a few very small traces survive.
Sotheby's, 8 July 2014, lot 4, part of item (d).
Stephen Butler Rare Books and Manuscripts, Catalogue Spring 2021, lot 20.
Purchased by the Bodleian.
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-09-30: Corrected 'aster mœntag' to 'after mœntag'