MS. Lat. liturg. d. 5
Summary Catalogue no.: 32556
Contents
Sanctorale (fol. 1), beginning with St. Stephen (26 Dec.); common of the saints (fol. 76v); some votive masses and masses for the dead (fol. 82); kyriale (fol. 84v); Dominican proses in honour of the Virgin (fol. 90); later additions among which twice the prose Sospitati dedit aegros of St. Nicholas (fols. 99v, 100); troped Benedicamus (fol. 103) and proses; noted litany of the saints (fol. 108); additions; proses (fol. 112), mostly of Our Lady, incomplete; short litany without notation (fol. 116); kyriale (fol. 118) from a different book; tropes among which for 2 voices (see also fols. 104, 107v), incomplete at the beginning. Fols. 1–89, 108–10 form the original volume.
Physical Description
Square notation on 9 staves of 4 black or red lines, 216 × 123 mm.
fol.108–9: 2 col. of 10 staves of 4 red lines, 215 × 125 mm.
The quire with Dominican proses was copied to form part of the volume; 9 staves, 220 × 140 mm.
The 2nd kyriale: heavy square notation on 10 long staves (14th cent.), 132 × 100 mm.
Decoration
Fleuronnée initials, one historiated. (Pächt and Alexander i. 131)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Hauterive (St Nicholas was the titular of the parish church at Hauterive).
Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS. 1251.
Lot 198 in his sale, 7 June 1898, bought by the Bodleian.
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.