MS. Lat. liturg. d. 42

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

Breviary of Chertsey Abbey (cuttings with illuminated initials; see also MSS. Lat. liturg. e. 6 (Summary Catalogue, no. 32558), e. 37, and e. 39). A list of the subjects of the cuttings is given in B.L.R. ix no. 2 (1974)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 47 leaves or cuttings: fragments, mostly cut out historiated initials, with eight whole leaves variously mutilated.

Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 125-30 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 145-50 × 80 mm.

Foliation: The modern volume of paper leaves foliated in modern pencil i-v, 1-63, with medieval fragments enclosed in sealed transparent envelopes attached to fols. 1-47. For the 18th century foliation on fols. 15, 29, 33, 37, 38, 40 and 42 cf. MS. Lat. liturg.e.37.

Layout

32 written lines, below top line; in 2 columns

Decoration

Fine miniature, borders, historiated and other initials. By the Master of the Queen Mary Psalter and his workshop. (P&A iii. 543, pl. LIV)

Binding

Modern Bodleian binding

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Chertsey Abbey (obits of the abbots in MS. Lat. liturg. e. 6; octave of St. Erkenwald in MS. Lat. liturg. e. 39, etc.)

Apparently broken up later than the 17th century

Made up of cuttings from the Douce collection (formerly MSS. Douce d. 13, fols. 2-10, and Douce 381, fol. 126). The fragments were all lifted and rearranged in the present manner in 1967–68 following the acquisition of MS.Lat.liturg.e.39. Formerly MS. Lat. liturg. e. 40.

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff, revised by Peter Kidd, late 1990s.

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Lat. liturg. d. 42

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