MS. Tanner 169*
Summary Catalogue no.: 9995
Physical Description
Composite: pp. 3–174 || pp. 1–2, 177–178 || pp. 175–176
Musical Notation:
Notation (see van Dijk 1957).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Chester, Cheshire, Benedictine abbey of St Werburg: Kalendar entries show that the book belonged to a monk of St Werburg's. Cf. Corrigenda to Summary Cat. III, IV, V, and F. Wormald, Engl. Ben. Kalendars after a. d. 1100, 1 (HBS), pp. 95ff. (MLGB3: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar).
'Henry Maynwaryng by the . . .' (p. 2), s. xvi. (MLGB3)
Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian in 1735.
MS. Tanner 169* – Part 1
Contents
Psalter and masses, with calendar.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Tanner 169* – Part 2
Contents
Hymns to the Holy Cross and to St. Oswald, with musical notes
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Tanner 169* – Part 3
Contents
(p. 175)
Alliterative poem (added, 13th cent.; begins imperfect) Incipit: Stod ho ...
Language(s): Middle English
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 57–63. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (A. Hackman, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars quarta codices viri admodum reverendi Thomæ Tanneri, S.T.P., episcopi Asaphensis, complectens, Quarto Catalogues IV, repr. 1966, with corrections, from the ed. of 1860) and supplementary sources.
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 705
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 13
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.