MS. Lat. liturg. e. 21
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Portable psalter with antiphons, Carthusian Use, with 15th-century English Carthusian additions.
Calendar
(wanting January, February and November, December)Psalter with antiphons
Canticles for use daily and throughout the year
Hymnal
Office of the dead
Quicunque vult
(added by a fifteenth-century hand)Litany
(added by a fifteenth-century hand)Order of lauds on week-days
Added by a fifteenth-century hand, identified by A. I. Doyle as William Darker of Sheen.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
20 long lines, below top line
Decoration
Good border and historiated initial, defaced. (P&A i. 595)
One historiated initial, to Psalm 1: initial 'B'[eatus] in two compartments, the upper with The Crucifixion, on a filigree ground; the lower with King David harping, on a diaper ground; foliate extensions from the initial forming a border on all four sides of the text; the initial to Ps. 109 missing, perhaps also illuminated.
Binding
20th(?)-cent. plain parchment over stiff pasteboards, with plaited clasps at the fore-edge, the spine lettered in gilt 'PSALTERIUM' and 'MS. | SAEC. XIV.'
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The original Office of the Dead is Carthusian.
Sheen Charterhouse (?). Adapted for Carthusian Use in England, 15th century. Various 15th cent. hands added at the beginning Carthusian lessons with versicles and responses for the first nocturn of matins in aestate for the week-days,(fol.2v), the prayer Suscipere digneris (fol.3) and portions of the liturgical psalter (fol.4). Fol. 180r-v written by William Darker of Sheen.
Bought by the Library from McLeish of London, 1928.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.