MS. Lat. liturg. e. 16
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
Processional, Use of Sarum
Fragments of 24 leaves, containing the temporale from Christmas to the Epiphany (fol. 1), Septuagesima (fol. 7) and Ash Wednesday to Maundy Thursday (fol. 8).
Made up of fly leaves taken from Bodleian books. Two leaves belonging to this MS., now in MS. Lat. liturg. b. 14, fol.361, 360, should here follow fol.17. Eight further leaves are in MS. Queen's Coll. 389 fols. 188–91, 194–7.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 24 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 120–5 × 85–90 mm.
Foliation: modern pencil: i-iii + 1–26; the parchment leaves foliated in 20th-cent. red ink 64–87 (cf. several of the leaves in MS. Lat liturg. d. 42)
Layout
Long lines
Musical Notation:
8 staves of four red lines with fine square notation
Decoration
Blue initials with red flourishes.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Made up of flyleaves from Bodleian books (printed 1562–85), two of them given by William Gent (fl. 1562–1611)
Record Sources
Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff, revised by Peter Kidd, late 1990s.
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.