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MS. Lat. liturg. b. 4

Summary Catalogue no.: 32703

Contents

Missal, Use of Sarum.

Calendar (fol. 1) January-February missing; blessing of holy water (fol. 6); temporale (fol. 7) with the marriage service (fol. 92v) and the order of the mass (fol. 95) after Holy Saturday; common of the dedication (fol. 147v); sanctorale (fol. 149), ending adruptly in the mass of the apostles Symon and Jude (fol. 28 October).

Different types of folded tags.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 187 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 400 × 265 mm.
Dimensions (written): 285 × 195 mm.

Condition

A leaf missing after fol.99 (full-page miniature), 2 leaves after fol. 20; fols. 21 f. should come between fol. 168 and 169

Layout

2 cols. of 34 lines.

Musical Notation:

Square notation on 11 staves of 4 red lines; neums are added to the passion of Good Friday (fol. 83)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 718:

Good borders.

Good initials. (fols. 7, 17v, 21, 99v, 100, 102v, 114v, 118, etc.)

Binding

Oak boards, worm-eaten, lined with sheep-skin, contemporary, rebacked.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; English, Midlands

Provenance and Acquisition

In the kalendar is the Translation of St. Wulfstan (7 June) and the feast of St. Francis (4 October). In the litany St. Modwenna is invoked.

Dedication of St Peter's, Northampton, added in the calendar (29 May), 15th century.

Thorpe, Cat. 1836, no. 857; bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS. 9716.

Phillipps sale, 9 June 1899, lot 875; bought by the Bodleian.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford Vol. 1: Mass Books, Pächt and Alexander, and the Summary Catalogue (1924).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 6, p. 187

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.