MS. Lat. liturg. d. 41
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
Language(s): Latin, with additions in Middle English
With antiphons added in lower margins in a slightly later hand.
Two pieces, including decretal of Clement IV beg: Sepe accidisse percepimus, dated ‘viiº Kl. Julii…anno iiº’ [25 June 1266].
Early 14th cent. addition.
Verses pr. R.W. Hunt in Medievalia et Humanistica N.S.1 (1970), 246–51.
Contemporary addition.
Canticles, O.T. and N.T.
Quicumque
Litany and collects
Added in a different contemporary hand which rewrote the end of the Quicumque on fol.150. The litany (from which a leaf is missing) includes Sts. Alban, Thomas Becket, Ethelbert, Oswald, Alphege and Kenelm.
Office of the dead, Use of Sarum (noted)
(ends fol.162)With other material on fols. 162–6, an addition apparently written by the original hand.
Early 14th cent. addition.
Early 14th cent. addition.
51 lines. Cf. IMEV 3233
15th cent. addition.
Office of the Dead, further collects
15th cent. addition.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
19 lines
Decoration
Mutilated and defaced. Pächt and Alexander iii. 489:
Good borders.
Good historiated initials.
- (fol. 36v) Ps. 38: David looking up at God (badly rubbed)
- (fol. 48r) Ps. 51: Saul commiting suicide (?)
- (fol. 60v) Ps. 68: God above, Jonah in the mouth of the fish below
- (fol. 76v) Ps. 80: Monk playing bells
- (fol. 91v) Ps. 97: Monks singing at a lectern
Good other initials.
Penwork line endings.
Binding
Medieval binding. Sewn on seven split alum-tawed cords, laced into wood (beech?) boards with cushioned edges, and covered with tawed skin stained pink (very faded); with traces of two pairs of strap-and-pin fastenings at the fore-edge of the upper board and the middle of the lower board; rebacked; the spine inscribed 'LIBER | PSALMORVM | MS', and '63' towards the bottom; traces of fore-edge painting
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Iste liber pertinet ... domus sive hospitalis ... London ... comodavit ... in nativitate S. Kenelmi anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo qu[ ]' (fol. 171)
Monogram incorporating letters E R N O I S (fol. 171, 16th-17th cent.)
Other deleted 16th-17th cent. names on fol. 170v, 171
'Inspexi' on front pastedown (18th cent.)
'63' on spine
Bought at Sotheby's 6 July 1964, lot 231.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.