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Add MS 21974
- Record Id:
- 032-002034439
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034439
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x0002f9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21974
- Title:
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Benedictional ('Benedictional of John Longland')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-21: Praeparatio ad missam pontificalem;
ff. 22r-81: Episcopal benedictions attributed to Archbishop John Peckham;
ff. 82v-83r: Added benedictions.
Decoration:
Two miniatures with full borders (ff. 2v and 21v). Two foliate initials with full borders (ff. 3r, 22). Initials in blue with red penwork, initials in gold with brown penwork (ff. 8r-9v), smaller red and blue initials, and paragraph marks in blue.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 2v: A bishop seated in a high-backed chair with a young boy placing a leather buskin on the bishop's right foot; a tonsured cleric stands to the right of the bishop, holding open a book.
f. 21v: A bishop dressed for office with mitre and crosier, and a tonsured cleric holding an open book; they stand before the altar.
The text was copied around the third quarter of the 15th century, but the illumination is likely to have been completed around the time that Longland became bishop of Lincoln in 1521 (Scott, Tradition and Innovation (2007), p. 128).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002034439", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 21974: Benedictional ('Benedictional of John Longland')" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034439
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034439
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_21974 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1525
- Date Range:
- 1475-1525
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 160 x 180 mm (text space: 170 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 83 (+ 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves after f. 1; 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning; 6 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: BL/BM in-house; red leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
? Lincoln Cathedral: evidence from certain blessings suggest that it was originally made for Lincoln (see Scott, Tradition and Innovation (2007), p. 122).
John Longland (b. 1520, d. 1547), Bishop of Lincoln: his arms in the borders of ff. 2v and 21v.
17th-century inscription: 'A(nno) D(omini) 1613 Maij 5^to / Cura ut vivas Stanton' (f. 1r).
Philip Carteret Webb (b. 1702, d. 1770), barrister and antiquary: his bookplate on f. [iv] recto.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby's sale London, 24 April 1857, lot no. 552, for the sum of £20.10s.0d.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1875), p. 566.
Walter Howard Frere, Pontifical Services, Illustrated from miniatures of the XVth and XVIth centuries, 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green & co., 1901), I, p. 104; II, pl. II.
Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church (London: Methuen, 1904), p. 227.
The Benedictional of John Longlonde Bishop of Lincoln (British Museum MS. Add. 21974), ed. by Reginald Maxwell Woolley, Henry Bradshaw Society 64 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1927) [edition of the text].
J. Brückmann, 'Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales', Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-45 (p. 425).
Kathleen L. Scott, Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2007), pp. 119-39; figs 94-96, 99-100.
- Exhibitions:
- Lincolnshire's Greatest, The Collection, Lincoln, 19 June 2015 - 13 September 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Exhibited: Lincolnshire's Greatest, The Collection, Lincoln, 19 June 2015 - 13 September 2015