MS. Add. A. 109

Summary Catalogue no.: 30165

Harmony of the Gospels

Fols. 34–54 fragmentary.

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: i + 70 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 215 mm.

Layout

2 columns, 202 × 55–65 mm. , 30–40 lines.

Musical Notation:

Neums (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

Binding

Red (?) whittawed leather over boards (s. xv ex?), rebacked.

Accompanying Material

Fol. iii is a leaf and a half from a 12th century Latin antiphonal on parchment.

History

Origin: 1388 ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 1.: 'In nomine domini nostri Iesu christi millesimo cccºlxxxviijº die 8. Julij conpletus per me petrum de Florentia indictione X.' (forming a heading at the beginning of the list of chapters, but the text carries on without a break and script and decoration are the same).

Perhaps acquired about 1870.

Record Sources

Adapted (2017) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, and from the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 749

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 750

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 5

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 93

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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