MS. Tanner 334

Summary Catalogue no.: 10161

Temporale (fol. 1); collects etc. for the masses of St. Louis, bishop, and St. Clare (fol. 121^v), written by the scribe on space left blank for the general rubrics, the last words of which are on fol. 122; order of the mass (fol. 122: Paratus sacerdos); mass of Corpus Christi (fol. 131^v); common of the saints and the dedication (fol. 133); votive masses (fol. 146); sanctorale (fol. 157); blessing of holy water (fol. 188^v); ritual of the Last Sacraments (fol. 189^v) with musical notation; additions, among which 3 proses of Our Lady (fol. 194^v).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

iii + 2 + ii + 198 + ii + 2 + iii fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 162 × 111 mm.

Dimensions (written): 120 × 84 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 30 (canon 20) long lines

Musical Notation:

Square notation on 4 red lines: the prefaces on 7 long staves, the burial service (fol. 193) in 2 col. of 10 staves.

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander i, list p. 72)

Rubrics black and red underlined.

Accompanying Material

The 4 fly leaves are from a 15th cent. breviary (?). Traces of tags (fols. 121, 133, 197).

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning (after 1319) ; French (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Date: after 1319 because of mass of Corpus Christi (fol. 131v).

Proper mass of the Translation of St. Thomas (fol. 173v).

‘Ryght tryste and wyl belowyd father and mother Jrecomer (?)’, fol. 193, 15th cent.

‘Teste (?) llyborum per me Rychard andro’, fol. 197, 15th cent.

James, duke of Albemare, fol. 156v, 15th cent.

W. Cant. [i.e. William Sancroft, 1617–93]. fol. 1.

Purchased from Sancroft's executors by Thomas Tanner (1674–1735).

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian and arrived c. 1736.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford Vol. 1: Mass Books, and Pächt and Alexander; 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).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 90

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 733