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MS. Lat. liturg. f. 11

Summary Catalogue no.: 32707

Calendar

Contents

(fols. 3r–8v)
Calendar

Laid out one month per page, written in brown, red and blue, partially graded to 9 lessons and duplex (the scribe stopped entering the number of lections and the double feasts after March), approximately half full. Includes a double feast of Gregory the Great (12 March), Cuthbert (20 March), Augustine of Canterbury (26 May) all in red, as well as Felix (9 March), Etheldreda (23 June, 17 October) and Mildred (13 July). The translation of Thomas Becket (7 July 1220) is absent. Contains obits added in 13th- and 14th-century hands: ‘Simo(n)is de Seyntion’ (15 February, Stanton St John, Oxfordshire (?)); ‘Idonie Daudele abb(atisse) de Burnham’ (29 May, Idonea of Audeley, d. by 8 July 1324, Augustinian Abbey of Burnham, Buckinghamshire (see Knowles, Brooke, London and Smith, 1972–2008, vol. 2, p. 547)); ‘frat(ris) Radulf(i) del Ewelme’ (14 December, possibly a Dominican, Oxford Convent, Prior before 1269 (see Emden, 1974, p. 658)). Contains many erasures, such as those of entries referring to a ‘dirige’, or to a ‘missa’, including one for the translation of Augustine (28 February). The feast of Thomas Becket and titles ‘pape’ are not erased.

Fols. 2 and 9 are a bifolium of 18th-century laid paper without watermarks, blank, apart from modern notes in pencil. For fols. 1 and 10 see below.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 + i + 6 + i + 1
Dimensions (leaf): c. 164 × 110 mm.

Collation

(fols. 1–2 and 9–10) fols. 1 and 10 are a parchment bifolium; fols. 2 and 9 are a paper bifolium | (fols. 3–8) I (6).
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Red or blue KL monograms with contrasting blue or red penwork

History

Origin: 13th century, first half (probably before 1221 ; English, East Anglia

Provenance and Acquisition

Formerly one volume (a psalter) with MS. Rawl. G. 18, q.v. for early history.

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), see ODNB: owned the calendar; ‘Phillipps MS 29811’ on fols. 1r and 3r.

Bought by E. W. B. Nicholson on 8/6/1899, for a guinea, in the sale of Thomas Phillipps’s manuscripts (Nicholson, 1901), lot 305 (paper label ‘305’ on fol. 1r of the calendar).

MS. Lat. liturg. f. 11 - endleaves (fols. 1, 10)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: single leaf folded sideways

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (Oct. 2021) from Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 92–7. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 46

Last Substantive Revision

2021-10-26: Description revised to incorporate all information in Solopova catalogue.