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Add MS 11414
- Record Id:
- 032-002109178
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109178
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000040.0x00024b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140945.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11414
- Title:
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Missal, use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-3v: Added texts including verses from St John's Gospel, chapter 19, on the Passion, followed by the prayer, 'Deus qui manus tuas et pedes tuos..' and readings with musical notation;
ff. 4r-309v: Missal of the use of Sarum or Sarum-Lincoln, with a calendar (ff. 4r-9v), and additions;
ff. 309r-310v: Added benedictions and prayers.
The Sanctoral contains the following non-Sarum feasts: translation of Saints Nicholas (9 May), Botulph (17 June), Anne, Dominic (4 August), Francis (4 October) and the translation of Hugh of Lincoln (6 October). According to Morgan ('Sanctorals of Early Sarum' (2010), p. 154), the remainder of the Sanctoral conforms to the use of Sarum; the translation of Aldhelm is included. The prayers, including Marian sequences, lectionary and ceremonies are of minor Sarum usage, with small exceptions. The independent Secret and Post-Communion, as found in the Sherborne Missal, is included, along with two Psalm-verses attached to the Offertory chant, not always present in Sarum missals.
Decoration:
One framed miniature of the Crucifixion in colours with gold (f. 181r). Two initials in gold on a rose and blue grounds (ff. 164r, 181v), one with a partial border with floriate decoration. Large puzzle initials in blue and red, one with gold (f. 160v), with pen-flourishing in red. Musical notation with staves in red (ff. 2v-3v, 165v-200v). Numerous initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Numbers, rubrics and some text in red (e.g., f. 127v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109178
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002109178
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140945.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 154mm (text space: 170/85 x 105mm).
Foliation: ff. 310 (+ 2 unfoliated parchment paste-downs, no longer attached to the wooden binding boards).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Original blind-stamped brown calf leather over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, N.E. (?Lincolnshire).
Provenance:
The translation of St Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln in the calendar (6 October) suggests a Lincolnshire origin or provenance, but the inclusion of the translation of St Nicholas and not St Andrew on 9th May contradicts this (Pfaff, Liturgy in medieval England (2001), p. 502).
Inscriptions in a 14th or 15th-century cursive hand, on the upper inside paste-down, illegible.
Thomas Martin (b. 1697, d. 1771), his name inscribed on the inside upper paste-down (see David Stoker, 'The Ill-gotten Library of "Honest Tom" Martin, in Property of a Gentleman: the Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library, 1620-1920, ed. R. Meyers and M. Harris (Winchester, 1991), pp. 90-111).
John Cochran, London bookseller, no. 24 in his catalogue, A Second Catalogue of Manuscripts in Different Languages on Theology of Various Dates (London, 1837).
Evans' booksellers, 26 July 1838, lot 1146, purchased by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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J.W. Legg, Westminster Missal (Henry Bradshaw Society, 12, 1896), III, p.1408.
E. S. Dewick, 'On a fragment of a mass-book from Burton Latimer, Northants', Transactions of the St Paul's Ecclesiological Society, 5 (1905), p. 253, n.1.
Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen & Co., 1910), p. 10.
David Hiley, 'Further Observations on W1: The Ordinary of Mass Chants and Sequences' Journal of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 4 (1981), 67-80 (p. 74), online at https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25554/1/hiley4.pdf [accessed 9 November, 2017].
Santha Indira Bhattacharji, 'The influence of the liturgy on Middle English literature: some problems and possible applications, with special reference to Pearl and Cleanness' (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Bristol, 1991), p. 114, online at https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/files/34488782/DX188462.pdf [accessed 13 November, 2017].
Nigel Morgan, 'The Introduction of the Sarum calendar into the dioceses of England in the thirteenth century', in Thirteenth Century England VIII: Proceedings of the Durham Conference, 1999, ed. by Michael Prestwich, R. H. Britnell, Robin Frame (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001), 179-206 (p. 183).
Richard W. Pfaff, The liturgy in medieval England: a history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 143, 149, 178, 362, 502.
Nigel Morgan, 'The Sanctorals of Early Sarum Missals and Breviaries, c. 1250-1350' in The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff (Tempe, Arizona: Brepols, 2010), 143-62 (p. 154).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)