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

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3

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

Fragments, 7th-17th centuries

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of fragments from the Bliss & Phillipps collections. The fragments are arranged as follows: (fols. 1–21) fragments from books probably bound at Oxford (also probably from Oxford bindings are C.m, y, z, and MS. Lat. misc. d. 13 (30572) fols. 1–2); (fols 22–57) miscellaneous; (fols. 58–109) liturgical; and (fols. 110–127) legal.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves; neums (see van Dijk 1957).

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Philip Bliss (1787–1857)

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872)

Bought 1953. Another fragment bought with tese is now MS. Lat. misc. d. 13 (30572), fols. 1–2.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 1

Contents

(fol.1)
Vita S. Milburge virginis (as in Gotha MS. I 81 fol.166v–175, see Analecta Bollandiana 58, 1940, 99–100, and Lincoln Cath. MS. 149 fol. 83v)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: Prologus Domni atonis hostiensis episcopi cardinalis in miraculis inventionis sancte milburge virginis

Edited from Lincoln Cath. MS. 149, fol. 87r-89v by P. A. Hayward in English Historical Review 114 (1999) 543–73 (563–73)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: Lower part of leaf, the rest of which is MS. Rawl. Q. b. 4 fol.7v-r; see also Christ Church Muniments MS. X (1). c. 1 (noted Bodl. Lib. Rec. 5 (1954–6), 109.
Dimensions (leaf): 370 × 285 mm.
Dimensions: 280 × 185 mm.

Layout

2 cols. of at least 44 lines

History

Origin: 12th cent. ; English

Provenance

Part of the cover of a Merton College business book ‘Anno 1o Regin. Mariae ad an. 27m. Regin Elizab. A.D. 1585’

Henricus Savile’ (d. 1622)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 2

Contents

(fol.2)
Historia monachorum in Aegypto,

tr. Rufinus, VII.151–3 pr. PL. 21.416 A 3 – 417 D.5

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols

History

Origin: 12th–13th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 3

Contents

(fol.3)
Gregory I, Moralia

IX.84–96 marked 20 i – 23 m, with lemmata in green and red, pr. PL. 75.904 D.3 – 912 B.5

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of an inner bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 12th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 4

Contents

(fol.5)
Aristotle, Topica

VIII.155 a.39 – 156 b.11 transl. Boethius pr.PL.64.1000 A.7 – 1002 A.5, one leaf from the same manuscript as MS. Magd. Coll. 271 nos.16–17. Ker Pastedowns no.165

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th cent.

Provenance

a pastedown from Magd. Coll. C.7.13

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 5

Contents

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent., 2nd half ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 6

Contents

(fol.8)
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum

XV.118–126 pr. Nuremburg 1519

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: late 13th cent.

Provenance

Labelled by Bliss ‘Philip Bliss from A. Moir

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 7

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(fol.9)
Aegidius Romanus, Quodlibet

II quest.10–12, pr. Venice 1504 fol.18 col.2 1.26 - fol.19 col.2 1 line from end

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th–14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 8

Contents

(fol.10)
Jerome, Ep. 53,

1.3–4, 4.1–5.1, pr. ed. I Hilberg, Vienna 1910 (CSEL. LIV 444.5–13, 449.14–451.1) with commentary probably by Guilelmus Brito

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th–14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 9

Contents

(fol.12)
Gescelinus de Cassanis, Apparatus super Clementinas

III 7.2–8.1 as in MS. New Coll. 180 fol.93r col.1–94r col.1

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; Italian

Provenance

Labelled by Bliss ‘from a Catullus of Dr. Bentleys - P. Bliss from A. Moir 1805’ (cf.item C.m)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 10

Contents

(fol.13)
Theological texts

End of a work on Spes

Beginning of a text

Rubric: LIII. ut sine intermissione oretur
Incipit: Sine intermissione orare, duobus modis mihi videtur fieri posse
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 2nd half of 13th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 11

Contents

(fol.14)
Innocent IV, In 5 libros Decretalium

IV.2.1–13, 18.6 – 20.7 pr. Venice 1578

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 12

Contents

(fol.16)
Henricus de Segusio (Hostiensis), Lectura super Decretales sive Apparatus in libros Decretalium

Prologue, pr. Venice 1581, beg. fol.3 col. 1 - fol.4v col.1 § 39

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 13

Contents

(fol.17)
Summary of Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae ,

part: IIa IIae 64.1–66.6, 77.2–78.1, pr. Turin, 1948

Rubric: liber secundus.XXXVI.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: parts of 3 leaves

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 14 (fol. 20)

Kept as MS. Lat. misc. a. 2, fol.25

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 15

Contents

(fol.21)
Johannes Duns Scotus, Quaestiones in libros Sententiarum

III dist. 1 quest. 1, pr. Lyons 1639 vol.7 scholia pp.10–16

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 16

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(fol.22)
Apocalypse,

22.13-end with contemporary notes. See N. R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford bindings, no. 403 n. 3

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf (verso blank)

History

Origin: 11th cent. (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 17

Contents

(fol.23)
Liber Sapientie

I.1–14, with prologue (Isidorus, Etymologiae VI.ii.30 = Berger no. 142)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: paper
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 18

Contents

(fol.24)
Commentary on Pauline Epistles

Romans 14.21 – 15.18, I Cor.1.10–24

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium

History

Origin: 12th cent.

Provenance

Used as the cover of Christopher Carlile, A discourse wherein is plainly proved that Peter was never at Rome, 1572

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 19

Contents

(fol.26)
Romans, glossed (1.1–8, with commentary of Gilbert de la Porrée)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

Decoration

Fine initial. (Pächt and Alexander i. 279, pl. XIX) Decorative initial in gold, blue, red, mauve, white edged with green.

History

Origin: Flemish (?); late 12th cent.

Provenance

14th cent. note ‘de Camberone’ (the Cistercian abbey of Cambron, Belgium)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 20

Contents

(fol.27)
Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms

Psalm 59.8–16, pr. P.L. 191.510 B.10–513 C.1

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.. with lemmata in red

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 21

Contents

(fol.28)
Peter Lombard, Commentary on Romans,

6.21–7.3, 8.6–11, pr. PL. 191.1411 A.9–1413 D.7, 1435 A.10–1438 A.2

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: late 12th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 22

Contents

(fol.30)
Epistle to Hebrews,

13.17-end; with commentary of Peter Lombard, pr. PL. 192.517 A.12 – 520 A.5

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 23

Contents

(fol.31)
Alan of Farfa, Homiliary

Parts of sermons 86 (= Augustine, Tractatus in Johannis evangelium 51.3–8, pr. PL. 35.1765.3 – 1766.42) and 87 (= Jerome, Commentarium in Matthaeum 21.1, pr. PL. 26. 146 B.3 – C.1)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf
Dimensions (leaf): 415 × 345 mm.
Dimensions (written): 290 × 230 mm.

Layout

2 columns of 33 lines

History

Origin: 10th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 24

Contents

(fol.32)
Augustine, De civitate dei

II 24–5, III 20–21, pr. ed. E. Hoffmann, Vienna 1900 (CSEL 40), parts of pp. 98 line 3 – 101 line 13, 145 line 9 – 148 line 17

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: top of a bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 12th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 25

Contents

(fol.34)
Ambrose, Expositio psalmi CXVIII,

13.2.2–3, 3.2, pr. ed. M. Petschenig, Vienna 1913 (CSEL LXII)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: small fragment

History

Origin: 7th cent. ; French Luxeuil

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 26

Contents

(fol.35)
Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita metrica S. Mariae Aegyptiacae,

cant.1–4, pr. PL. 171. 1324 c.7 – 1327 B.7

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: inner bifolium

History

Origin: late 12th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 27

Contents

(fol.37)
Poem (part of a poem in elegiac couplets about Bernardus)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 28

Contents

(fol.38)
Peter Lombard, Sententiae

IV.30.1–2, 31.2, pr. Quaracchi 1916, II. 931–2, 935–7

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 12th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 29

Contents

(fol.39)
Petrus Lombardus, Sententiae

IV.17.1–3, pr. Quaracchi 1916, II. 847–52; with commentary added in 15th. cent. Ker, op. cit., 1763 n. 1

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: upper part of leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: early 13th cent.; added commentary, 15th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 30

Contents

(fol.40)
Peter Lombardu, Sententiae

IV. 50.3–7, pr. Quaracchi 1916, II. 1035–8.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 31

Contents

(fol.41)
Commentary on Petrus Lombardus, Sententiae

IV.7

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: late 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 32

Contents

(fol.42)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae,

la 2ae q.14 a.1– 15.a.3, numbered 82–88, pr. Turin 1948, II. 71–76

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th – 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 33

Contents

(fols. 44–48)
Theological works (fragments)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: single leaves

History

Origin: 12th–15th cents.

Provenance

Fol. 46 from a New College book, with bookplate of 1702 & shelfmarks 0.28.6, M.28.5, Auct.11 T.34.5

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 34

Contents

(fol.49)
Glossary,

in Latin with some Anglo-Saxon glosses, from the same manuscript as B.M. Harl. 3376

Language(s): Latin and Old English

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 11th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 35

Contents

(fol.50)
Osbern of Gloucester, Derivationes,

copia-contemplari (with short version of repetitiones) pr. Classicorum auctorum e Vaticanis codicibus editorum, ed. A. Mai, Rome, 1836, VIII.128–36, 138–48, with marginal additions from Hugutio of Pisa, Liber derivationum, as in MS. Laud misc. 626, fols. 17v–39v.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: inner bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; Italian (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 36

Contents

(fol.52)
Johannes Balbus de Janua, Catholicon,

dicto-dilectio, pr. Lyon, 1514, fols. 6–7v

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 37

Contents

(fol.53)
Virgil, Aeneid

I. 179–209, 217–247

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; French

Provenance

Labelled by Bliss

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 38

Contents

(fol.56)
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria Nova,

lines 1311ff. ed. Faral

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 13th cent.

Provenance

Labelled by Bliss 'Philip Bliss 1805 from his friend Robt. Tindale. (from an old and most beautiful Copy of the Laws of the Emperor Iustinian printed at Paris by Claude Chevallon 1526'.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 39

Contents

(fol.57)
Document

Fragment of a letter under the Great Seal (missing) to a sheriff to right a wrong judgement 28 July 17 Eliz.I.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1575 ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 40

Contents

(fol.58)
Gospel book

Temporale, parts of gospels for Thursday & Friday in 2nd week of Lent (Joh.5 30–47, Mat.21.33–46)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of an inner bifolium.
Dimensions (leaf): 285–90 × 230 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 145 mm.

History

Origin: 11th cent., beginnning ; German

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 41

Contents

(fol.60a)
Gospel book or missal

Part of passion according to St.Luke

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 11th cent.(?) ; Belgian (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 42

Contents

(fol.60b)
Gospel book or missal

Part of passion according to St. Luke 22.58, 66, with the parts marked in red.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 43

Contents

(fol.61)
Missal

Noted missal, temporale, parts of 14th & 15th weeks after Pentecost, with adiastematic rhythmical neums of St. Gall type

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 12th century, first half ; German, South

Provenance

Bearing a 19th cent. printed label 116 (cf. items p, cc)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 44

Contents

(fol.62)
Missal (?)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: fragment of leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; English (?)

Provenance

with later scribbles including ‘Wyllyam Horton ys boke’ and ‘1528’

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 45

Contents

(fol.63)
Missal

Noted missal, from the common of a bishop & confessor, with square notation on staves of 4 red lines.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 46

(fol.64) Kept as MS. lat. liturg. a. 8, fol. 63

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 47

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(fol.65)
Missal

Rubricated missal, part of mass of the dedication.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; English

Provenance

Later used as cover of a book.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 48

Contents

(fol.66)
Missal

Temporale, end of gospel for Friday before 4th or 5th Sunday after Pentecost (Luc.8.56), introit Respice in me, collect Protector in te, and part of gospel for same Sunday.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; German (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 49

Contents

(fol.67)
Missal

Sanctorale, part of mass of St.George (23 April) with part of a sequence & parts of mass for Pentecost and St. Barnabas.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; Low Countries (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 50

Contents

(fol.69)
Missal

Without lessons, temporale, parts of masses for Sunday of octave & for octave day of Epiphany.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; German

Provenance

Formerly sewn with green silk thread to fol. 70.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 51

Contents

(fol.70)
Accounts
Language(s): German

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: paper
Extent: scrap

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; German

Provenance

Formerly sewn with green silk thread to fol. 69.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 52

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(fol.71)
Psalter

Noted ferial psalter with opening words of some antiphons in upper margins, point neum notation perhaps derived from Metz neums on staves of 4 or 5 red lines.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: perhaps 11th cent. ; German

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 53

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(fol.73)
Psalter

Portable psalter, parts of Ps. 103.29–104.29.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; English

Provenance

Noted by Bliss ‘From a Catullus formerly in the Possession of Dr. Bentley = Philip Bliss 1805 from his Friend A. L. Moir.’ (cf.item A.i)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 54

Contents

(fol.74)
Psalter

Order of ferial psalter, Sunday hymns from Epiphany to 1st Sunday in Lent with antiphons etc. & opening words of psalms for 1st nocturn on Sundays.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf (recto blank)

History

Origin: 15th century (?) ; Italian, North (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 55

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(fol.75)
Psalter

Portable psalter, parts of Ps.141.3 – 142.4, 143.14 – 144.11

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium

History

Origin: c. 1200 (?) ; German

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 56

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(fol.77)
Antiphonal

Temporale, some respensories etc. for matins of 3rd Sunday in Advent, antiphons etc. for Wednesday to Saturday in the same week, and the antiphon O sapientia, with Gothic notation on staves of 4 black lines.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

History

Origin: early 13th cent. ; German (monastic)

Provenance

Bearing a 19th cent.printed label 100 (cf.items d, cc)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 57

Contents

(fol.79)
Antiphonal

Temporale, last responsories of matins, lauds, little Hours & 3 antiphons of vespers for Christmas, with Gothic notation on staves of 4 black lines.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; German (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 58

Contents

(fol.80)
Hymnal

Hymns for week after Epiphany, for Easter, Corpus Christi and S. John Baptist.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of 2 bifolia

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: early (?) 15th cent. ; Low Countries

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 59

Contents

(fol.84)
Breviary

Noted choir breviary, temporale, part of 1st Sunday after octave of Epiphany, with adiastematic notation tending towards point-neums.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 12th century, first half ; German

Provenance

18th cent. shelf mark L.i.N:40

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 60

Contents

(fol.85)
Breviary

Noted choir breviary, sanctorale, part of matins and lauds for Purification of the Virgin (2 Feb.), with adiastematic notation in which the virga is a point-neum.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: c. 1100 ; German (secular)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 61

Contents

(fol.86)
Breviary

Noted choir breviary, temporale, part of Office of Holy Trinity, & some lessons for 2nd & 3rd weeks after Pentecost, with fine square notation on staves of 4 red lines.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 12th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 62

Contents

(fol.88)
Breviary

Noted choir breviary, temporale, most of Passion Sunday, parts of Palm Sunday & subsequent Monday, adiastematic point neum notation with some Notker letters, secular work.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: parts of 2 bifolia

History

Origin: 12th cent. ; German, West or ; Luxemburg

Provenance

From the binding of a book belonging in the 18th cent. to ‘carmeli crucenacensis’ (of Kreuznach near Coblenz) marked CL:5. Lin:2. Num 35 1740; with fol. 92.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 63

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(fol.92)

A narrow strip with Italian diastematic neums on a stave with red F line.

Language(s): No linguistic content.

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment

History

Provenance

From the binding of a book belonging in the 18th cent. to ‘carmeli crucenacensis’ (of Kreuznach near Coblenz) marked CL:5. Lin:2. Num 35 1740; with fol. 88.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 64

Contents

(fol.93)
Breviary

Noted choir breviary, temporale, lessons from Genesis & responsories for Tuesday- Friday in the week of Septuagesima with half-diastematic neums related to the notation of Chartres.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 12th cent. ; French

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 65

Contents

(fol.94)
Breviary

Noted choir breviary, lessons of I Mach. with the responsorial historia Adaperiat, & parts of 14th & 15th Sundays after Pentecost, adiastematic point-neum notation.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium and 2 small scraps

History

Origin: late 12th cent. ; German, West (monastic)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 66

Contents

(fol.98)
Breviary, Use of Sarum

Rubricated & noted choir breviary, sanctorale, part of feast of 11,000 virgins (21 Oct.), Offices of SS.Simon & Jude (28 Oct.) & St.Quintinus (31 Oct.), 1st vespers, compline & 2 nocturns of All Saints (1 Nov.), with collects added for St.Romanus & SS.Crispinus & Crispinianus (23 & 25 Oct.), square notation on staves of 4 red lines.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; English

Provenance

Probably from an Oxford binding

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 67

Contents

(fol.100)
Breviary, Use of Sarum

Noted choir breviary, part of Lenten litany & its variations for each day of the week, with music on 4 red lines not filled in.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: upper part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 15th cent. ; English

Provenance

Probably from an Oxford binding

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 68

Contents

(fol.101)
Breviary

Choir breviary, temporale, lessons for matins of 4th & 5th days in octave of Epiphany, secular work.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; Spanish or ; French, South

Provenance

Used later as a cover; marked in 19th cent. 6013

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 69

Contents

(fol.102)
Breviary

Choir breviary, sanctorale, parts of Offices of St.Peter and Visitation of the Virgin with marginal notes, palimpsest, monastic work.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium

History

Origin: c.1500 ; Austrian or ; Italian, North-East

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 70

Contents

(fol.104)
Breviary

Portable breviary, sanctorale, parts of proper Offices of St. Agatha (5 Feb.), St. Matthias patronus (24 Feb.), St.Gregory (12 Mar.), without title, indications for antiphons responseries or versicles, opening words of psalms, or lessons.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 consecutive inner bifolia

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: late 12th cent. ; Flemish

Provenance

19th cent. printed label 69 (cf.items d, p)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 71

Contents

(fol.105)
Breviary

Portable breviary, Common of the Saints, lessons 2–4 & responsories at matins for the evangelists, monastic (?) work .

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 15th cent., first half ; Low Countries (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 72

Contents

(fol.106)
Breviary

Portable breviary (?), temporale, last lessons & responsories (Sicut ovis, Agnus dei Christus) of matins, lauds etc. of Holy Saturday.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; French

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 73

Contents

(fol.107)
Martyrology (1–8 and 25–30 March)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: late 14th cent. ; English

Provenance

Probably from an Oxford binding.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 74

Contents

(fol.109)
Martyrology (eulogies of 10–12 Feb.)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Decoration

Initials illuminated in blue, red & gold.

History

Origin: late 15th cent. ; French

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 75

Contents

(fol.110)
Justinian, Digest

VIII.6.6 – IX.1.5 with some Accursian glosses.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 76

Contents

(fol.111)
Justinian, Digest

XIX. 2.60–61, 4.1, 5.4–5 with Accursian glosses.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 77 (fol. 112)

Kept as MS. Lat. Misc. a. 2, fols. 26–7

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 78

Contents

(fol.114)
Justinian, Codex

IV.38.13 – 44.2 with a few Accursian glosses & other notes.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 79

Contents

(fol.115)
Gratian, Decretum,

pt.II VIII.1.17 – 3.1, X.1.12 – 3.2, with some glosses

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 12th–13th cent. ; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 80

Contents

(fol.117)
Gregory IX, Decretales

I 6.28, 30, with glossa ordinania.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of leaf

History

Origin: late 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 81

Contents

(fol.118)
Gregory IX, Decretales

IV 18.1 – 19.1, with glossa ordinaria.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: lower half of leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th–14th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 82

Contents

(fol.119)
Joannes Andreae, Nouella commentaria in Decretales

II 21.7 (§ 13)– 10( §11), pr. Venice 1581 fol.160v–161v.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of leaf

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 83

Contents

(fol.122)
Clementines

II.11.2–12.2 with glossa ordinaria on II. 12.3

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

Layout

two cols.

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 84

Contents

(fol.123)
Raymundus de Pennaforte, Summa de casibus de poenitentia

III 32.18–19, 22–3, pr. Rome 1603, pp.396–7, 401

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: half a leaf

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 85

Contents

(fol.124)
De appellationibus

Part of a work; quoting Decret.II 2.6 and Decretal.I 29, II 28 but no commentators

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 86

Contents

(fol.125)
Year Book of 9 Ed.III

Parts of Hilary & Trinity terms pr. London 1596 (Beale, Bibliography no. R.3) fol.333–334v, 343v–345

Language(s): Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium

History

Origin: 14th cent. ; English

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3 – Part 87

Contents

(fol.127)

Unidentified work

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: fragment
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf

History

Origin: 13th cent. ; English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian library staff.

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), pp. 33, 126, 138, 170, 172, 216, 222, 240, 241, 244, 246
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), pp. 14, 22, 28, 41, 89, 110, 152, 153, 158, 170, 186, 230, 232, 234, 235, 247, 266, 281, 292, 293, 331, 353

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.