Add MS 40154

DIURNAL of the Carthusian monastery of Bois-Saint-Martin, near Grammont, dioc. Malines (formerly Cambrai). For accounts of this house see Le Grand Theatre Sacré de Brabant, i, p. 357; F. A. Lefebvre, St. Bruno et l'ordre des Charteux, ii, p. 289; Maisons de l'ordre des Chartreux, ii (1915), p. 205. Contents :-(1) A preliminary gathering containing extracts from the Fathers, etc. f. 1;-(2) Rules for calculating Golden Numbers and Sunday Letters, with table from A.D. 1493. f.6;-(3) Calendar. Amongst the numerous entries are:-(a) The Carthusian saints, Hugo Bp. [of Grenoble] (1 Apr.) and Hugo Bp. [of Lincoln] (17 Nov.). St. Bruno, the founder of the order, in whose honour Leo X granted an office in 1514 (cf. the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum, 6 Oct., pp. 696 sqq.), has been added (6 Oct.);-(b) Carthusian anniversaries (observed at this house on the dates indicated) The individual tricenaries (Cardinal Talleyrand de Périgord, 19 Jan. Jeanne, widow of Charles IV of France, 3 Mar.; and Amblard d'Entremont, Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, 24 Apr. Cf. Repert. statut. ord. Cartus., Basel, 1510, stat. nov., pt. i, cap. lv, 19-21, and Ordinarivm Cartvs., Lyons, 1641, cap. xxxvi, 14-16), all added; Officium benefactorum nostrorum (14 Jan.; cf. Ord. Cart., xlii, 6) ; Officium capituli generalis (Apr. ; Rep. stat., stat. ant., pt. ii, xxix, 32); Commemoratio Cluniacensis (19 Oct.; Rep. stat., stat. ant., i, xlviii, 33, and Ord. Cart., xlii, 4); Festum reliquiarum (8 Nov.) Commemoratio fratrum nostrorum (9 Nov. ; Ord. Cart., xlii, 2) and presumably Festum laicorum (27 May);-(c) Local feasts Dedication of the church ("Dominica prima post Magdalene [22 July] semper festiuitas est dedicationis ecclesie nostre domus scilicet Silue Sancti Martini ordinis Carthusiensis prope Geraldimontem"); festivals of St. Adrian (eleuatio, 4 Mar., aduentus in Geraldimontem, 27 May, [depositio], 8 Sept., and, 1 Dec., Nathalia uxor sancti Adriani). f. 7;-(4) "Arbor generationis Christi," including (amongst the descendants of Esmeria, sister of St. Anne) Servaaius, Bishop of Tongres. f. 13;-(5) Diagram of the mundane and Supermundane spheres, with text. f. 13 b;-(6) "Hore beate Marie virginis secundum ordinem Carthusiensem." f. 14;-(7) Psalter, with hymns, antiphons, etc. Differing widely in arrangement from the "psalterium in diuino officio dicendum scdm. morem ordinis Cartusiensium" at the beginning of Diurnum sec. Ord. Cartusienstum (T. Kerver, 1520), and omitting the psalms at Matins, Lauds, etc., which occur in that version. f. 46;-(8) Penitential Psalms and Litany, with the daily commemorations at Lauds and Vespers (cf. Harley MS. 2855, ff. 277 b-279 ; Diurn. Cart., ff. cccxix, cccxx). f. 74;-(9) Matins (abridged) and Lauds for the weeks following the first Sund. after the octave of the Epiphany and the octave of Corpus Christi. f. 80;-(10) Canticles for Sundays and twelvelesson feasts, as in Diurn. Cart., ff. cxlii-cl, but somewhat differently arranged. f. 90;-(11) Temporale, Advent-twenty-fifth Sund. after Trinity. There are many variations in arrangement and other minor differences from the texts in Diurn. Cart., ff. clxxxij-cclxviij, and Harley MS. 2855, ff. 57 b-201. f. 98;-(12) Sanctorale, SS. Andrew-Saturninus, differing from Diurn. Cart., ff. cclxix-cccvij, and Harley MS. 2855, ff. 201-261 b, as in art. 11. An inserted leaf (f. 167) contains only a collect for St. Louis of France (25 Aug.). There is no office for St. Bruno. f. 152;-(13) "In dedicatione ecclesie." f. 175;-(14) "Benedictiones dicende ad lectiones" (cf. Diurn. Cart., ff. cccxx b, cccxxj). f. 176;-(15) Directions, roughly corresponding to the "Ordinarium de capitulis et orationibus dicendis in festis super annum" in Diurn. Cart., ff. cccxviij, cccxix (cf. f. cclxix). f. 177;-(16) Commune sanctorum. f. 178;-

(17) Hymnal. f. 183;-(18) Directions for special offices (benefactors, the tricenaries, the General Chapter and the Cluniae Order), similar in character to those in Diurn. Cart., ff. xv b, xvj. f. 187 (19) Office of the Dead, followed (f. 195) by regulations for its use. f. 188;-(20) Two exempla concerned with the neglect of divine worship (cf. Cat. of Romances in Brit. Mus., iii, p. 84, no. 16; p. 570, no. 168). f. 196. Vellum; ff. v + 196 (f . 73 blank). 6.7/8 in. x 5 in. Circ. A. D. 1493- 1514. Gatherings of 8 leaves; x, xi, xiii, xv, xvii (last cancelled), xxiii, xxiv are of 10 leaves; ill (1 cancelled xxii2 (1 cancelled) xxi has one inserted leaf (f. 167). Larger initials with pen-work; smaller initials in red and blue. A few coarsely executed marginal drawings (e.g. ff. 39 b, 141). Belonged to the Rev. E. S. Dewick (ff. ii-v contain notes in his hand), by whose son, the Rev. E. C. Dewick, it was presented to Dr. J. Wickham Legg (cf. f. i). Presented by John Wickham Legg, Esq., F.R.C.P.