MS. Add. A. 109
Summary Catalogue no.: 30165
Contents
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
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).
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
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.