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Add MS 27920
- Record Id:
- 032-002019202
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002019202
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000037.0x000111
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055995099.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 27920
- Title:
- A noted Breviary (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-159v: A monastic Breviary with musical notation, beginning with the Temporale (ff. 1r-103v): 'Demoniacus iste apud Mattheum'; the Sanctorale (ff. 103v-159r); ending with the response 'Inclinans faciem meam', followed by an added antiphon for the Matins (ff. 159r-v). At least one quire is lacking between f. 127 and f. 128.
Decoration:
Large initials with zoomorphic and foliate decoration in red, green, blue and yellow (ff. 33v, 85r, 103v). Numerous initials in red, some with penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002019202
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002019202
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055995099.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (text space: 158 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 159 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Late Caroline Minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather binding, the spine inscribed at the British Museum: 'BREVIARIUM, CUM NOTIS MUSICIS'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or Germany.
Provenance:
Added antiphons for Matins, beginning 'Domine quinque talenta tradidisti michi' in a 13th-century hand (ff. 159r-159v).
An excerpt from an antiphon ('Auge in nobis domine fidem tuam') in a 14th-century hand (f. 2v); the same hand has added a note in the margin of f. 3v, and prayers for Matins and Vespers on f. 159v.
Added antiphons in a 14th-century script (ff. 159r-159v: Benedictus Deus).
Puttick & Simpson, London booksellers: purchased from them by the British Museum on 10 July 1868 for £11.11.6.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 375.
A Guide to the Manuscripts and Printed Books Illustrating the Progress of Musical Notation (London: British Museum, 1885), p. 6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.