MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Fifteen fragments, mostly from Missals, Use of Sarum, and recovered from bindings. Arranged in order of the Adams numbers (see below); unnumbered leaves placed adjacent to those with which they seem to belong.
Physical Description
Binding
Bodleian fascicle
History
Provenance and Acquisition
"From the collection assembled in the late nineteenth century by J. T. Adams", most leaves with a number near the middle of the top edge, and with a tick- or 's'-shaped mark in the top right corner.
Sotheby's, 2 Dec. 1997, lot 10, bought by Quaritch on behalf of the Bodleian.
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 1
Contents
(Adams no. 23; Sotheby's item 12).
Physical Description
Layout
39 lines in 2 columns
Decoration
22 one-line blue initials
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
written in two columns of 33 lines (the top lines trimmed away; there would originally have been approx 43 lines per col.)
Decoration
Two-line blue initials with red penwork; blue paraphs
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 3
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
two columns of 39 lines
Decoration
Two-line blue initials with red penwork; blue paraphs
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 4
Contents
Ps. 118:7–24 (the recto has offsets of a border and initial [or miniature?] and thus probably comes from the Commendation of Souls]; (Adams no. 170; Sotheby's item 7).
Physical Description
Decoration
Two two-line initials in gold, on red and blue grounds with white tracery.
One-line initials and a paraph in gold with dark purple penwork
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 5
Contents
Fols. 6–8 may come from a single manuscript, but the script and thickness of the pen vary from one to the next.
Physical Description
Layout
two columns of 33 lines
Decoration
Rubrics supplied but spaces for initials left blank
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 6
Contents
From the mass for a non-virgin martyr, to the mass for a many virgins, in the Common of Saints; and the start of a votive mass for the Trinity (pr. Missale Sarum, cols. 727*-9* and 735* (no Adams no.; Sotheby's item 4/5/6)
Fols. 6–8 may come from a single manuscript, but the script and thickness of the pen vary from one to the next.
Physical Description
Layout
two columns of 33 lines
Decoration
Rubrics supplied but spaces for initials left blank
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 7
Contents
From the end of the Mass for St. Kenelm to that for St. Wandrille in the Sanctorale (pr. Missale Sarum, 814–8, ending with the reading on 731* for a non-Virgin) (no Adams no.; Sotheby's item 4/5/6).
Fols. 6–8 may come from a single manuscript, but the script and thickness of the pen vary from one to the next.
Physical Description
Layout
two columns of 33 lines
Decoration
Rubrics supplied but spaces for initials left blank
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 8
Contents
Perhaps part of the Mass for the Dead or for the Nearly Dead (cf. Missale Sarum, col. 814*). (Adams no. 222; Sotheby's item 2).
Physical Description
Layout
two columns of approx. 29 lines (trimmed at the top; only 23 lines extant)
Decoration
Ywo-line and one-line initials alternately red or green
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 9
Contents
Part of an office from Matins to Vespers (Adams no. 231; Sotheby's item 3).
Physical Description
Layout
two columns of 26 lines
Decoration
Rubricated but with unfilled spaces for initials
History
Provenance
Inscribed in a fine 16th-cent. italic hand 'Humfry Bouton. | Rumpatur quisque Rumpitur inuidia' [Martial, Epigrammata ix.97], and, in Italian in a very similar hand, 'Donna seguita prega quel qui' (?), and 'Que douj altij amor da speme nasce, | Dal non sperar in me(?) s'auuie et pasce.| [signed] J. [or I.] G.'
The verso inscribed in French(?), 18th(?)-cent., 'au(?) cat p 308'
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 10
Contents
Ps.77:38–66 (Adams no. 372; Sotheby's item 10).
Physical Description
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 11
Contents
Part of Tuesday in the fourth week of Lent (pr. Missale Sarum, cols. 217–219) (Adams no. 461; Sotheby's item 8)
Physical Description
Layout
two columns of 28 lines
Decoration
One gold two-line initial with blue penwork, others in blue with red penwork
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 12
Contents
Masses for the Assumption of the Virgin, St. Bartolomew, and John the Evangelist, with marginal near-contemporary addition of directions for the feast of St. Bernard (canonized 1174) (no Adams no.; Sotheby's item 1).
Physical Description
Layout
13 lines of text extant
Hand(s)
very fine early gothic bookhand
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 13
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
two(?) columns of 26 lines (only one col. extant)
Decoration
Two-line initials in blue with red penwork
History
MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38 – Part 14
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Two-line initials in blue with red penwork
History
Additional Information
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.