The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-3v: Added (late 14th century) tract on the Mass, perhaps by Guillaume d'Auvergne (b. 1180/90, d. 1249), Bishop of Paris, incipit: 'Consilium domini guillielmi episcopi parisiensis de ministerio et negligentiis altaris'; ff. 4r-8v: Added (late 14th century) praye...
Fragment of a pontifical, the Canterbury Benedictional
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This manuscript contains two originally separate items: ff. 1-16: a fragment of a pontifical, including an Ordo for the blessing of oils; ff. 17-214: the Canterbury Benedictional.
These folios contain a fragment of a pontifical which includes an ordo for the blessing of oils. Decoration: initials in red, some oxidized, and red rubics throughout.
These folios contain a large benedictional traditionally known as the 'Canterbury Benedictional'. This benedictional contains almost twice as many benedictions as earlier benedictionals, like Æthelwold's Benedictional (Add MS 49598). Decoration: initials, rubrics, and decorative punctuation in...
Gospel lectionary with collects, collections of prayers, blessings, masses and a calendar
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Contents: f. 1r: A collect for Christmas: ‘Deus qui hanc sacratissimam noctem veri luminis fecisti illustratione clarescere . da quaesumus ut cuius lucis misteria in terra cognovimus . eius quoque gaudijs in celo perfruam[ur]. Qui tecum’. ff. 1v-7r: A Calendar with astronomical tables on ff. ...
Contents: f. 7r: Prayer to God: ‘[D]eus qui nos pastores in populo vocari voluisti. presta quesumus: ut per hec que humano ore dicimus. in tuis oculis esse valeamus. Per dominum nostrum iesum’. f. 8r: Prayer to God, beginning: ‘Omnipotens sempiterne deus meritis et precibus tue matris’. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
This manuscript contains the so-called 'La Charité Psalter', named after the Cluniac priory of La Charité-sur-Loire where the manuscript was produced at the end of the 12th century. A prayer for a community's abbess on f. 90v suggests that the Psalter was written for a nunnery affiliated with th...
Contents: ff. 1r-139r: Missal, with musical notation; with marginal instructions for songs (with musical notation), prayers and postures (ff. 25r, 26r, 27v, 28v, 57v, 58r) added by a 16th-century hand. ff. 139v-140r: An index of liturgical feasts, entitled: 'Index eorum que in hoc opusculo tr...
Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
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Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. The manuscript is composed of two parts: Part 1 (ff. 154r-452v) is the summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearles and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which formed originally a single v...
Psalter (addition to the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
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Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-115r: Ferial Psalter, imperfect at the beginning, starts at the end of Psalm 2, incipit: 'via iusta'. ff. 116r-152r: Common of Saints. ff. 152v-153v are ruled but blank. Decoration: 7 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials and thre...