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032-002560785

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Add MS 88905

Title:

Psalter of Kirkstead Abbey, including a topographical map of northern Lincolnshire

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar;

ff. 2r–v: 'Versus ad virginem Mariam, Alma serena pia preclara beata Maria' (Walther, Initia Carminum, no. 799);

ff. 3r–v: An account of the baronies of Bolingbroke and Horncastle & Scrivelsby (Lincolnshire), and the grants of pasturage in Wildmore, added in the 15th century;

f. 4r: Two hymns, 'Dic homo cur abuceris discretionis gracia' (Walther, Initia Carminum, no. 4353) and 'Amor patris et filii veri splendor'(Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum, no. 1004);

f. 4v: A topographical map of northern Lincolnshire showing Revesby and Kirkstead Abbeys, and their respective pastures;

ff. 5r–6r: A description of Kirkstead Abbey's claim to the disputed properties depicted on the map;

ff. 6v–7v: A hymn, 'Cunctis excellentior angelorum chorus' (Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum, no. 25196);

ff. 8r–19v: A calendar of English Cistercian use, with entries including 'Dedicatio ecclesie de Kyrkestede, xii lectiones' (27 September, f. 12r), followed by prayers, tables and short offices;

ff. 20r-138v: Psalter, followed by canticles, litany and prayers;

ff. 139r–162r: Office of the Dead, collects for the sick, prayers and verses in Latin and Anglo-Norman French, including:

f. 154v: 'Dominator Dues omnipotens';

f. 155v: 'Domine ihesu crist qui in hunc mundum';

f. 157r: 'Duce sir ihesu crist qu per nostre seint pleisir ' (Sonet, Repertoire d'incipit (1956) no. 541);

f. 158r: 'Da me deu sir pere qu soeffri passion';

f. 158v: 'Preciouse dame seinte marie mere deu espouse' (Sonet, Repertoire d'incipit (1956), no. 1700);

f. 160r: 'Tristis amore langueo qui causda sum doloris';

f. 160v: 'Ave maris stella vera mellis stilla' (Walther, Initia carminum (1959) no. 1934).

Decoration: Full-page map with topographical features in red or green. Ten large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourishing and mainly foliate decoration in green or yellow, including a Beatus initial (f. 20r) of a man shaking a vine to frighten birds plucking at the grapes. Calendar entries in red, blue or brown. Decorated initials in red, blue or green . Music staves and initials in red (ff. 6v-7v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Parchment codex

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Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1295

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

c 1300-15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 × 180 mm (text space: 190mm x 120mm).

Foliaton: ff. 162 + 1 (f. 106*follows f. 106) (ff. 1 and 162 are each formed of a modern and a medieval parchment flyleaf stuck together + 2 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation: i⁷(ff. 1-7), ii⁸⁺⁴(ff. 8-19), ii-xii¹²(ff. 20-150 + 106*), xiii⁸⁺⁴ (ff. 151-162). Catchwords.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. 19th-century English blind-stamped russia binding, by B. Maund of Bromsgrove: label on the upper binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: England, E. (Lincolnshire).

Provenance:

Made at a Cistercian abbey in Lincolnshire, probably the Cistercian Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kirkstead: it contains a map of Wildmore, Lincolnshire on f. 4v, the use of punctus flexus punctuation and entries in the calendar indicate a Cistercian origin, and it was inscribed by a monk of Kirkstead at the time or shortly after it was made (see below).

William de Wharrun, monk of Kirkstead Abbey (Lincolnshire), c. 1300: inscribed, 'Liber fratris Willelmi de Wharrrun, cuius anima maneat in celis amen' written in red ind (f. 20r).

Reverend Henry Campbell (d. 1874) of the Catholic Mission, Bromsgrove: his bookplate on the upper inside binding and bequeathed by him to Beaumont College.

Beaumont College, Jesuit School of Windsor (closed in 1967), in their library, 'MS. No VI' written on the inside upper binding.

Sir John Galvin (b. 1902), Australian-American businessman, who acquired Loughlinstown House, Dublin in 1963, purchased by him at Dawson's, booksellers of Pall Mall, London, 1969. The Psalter was granted an export licence in 1970, in the face of an objection by the British Museum; the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art considered that the price was too high (£10,000) to withhold a licence, and that Sir John Galvin had made bequests to Trinity College Dublin, and this might be the manuscript’s intended destination (ultimately unfulfilled). As a condition of its export, a colour transparency of the map alone, and black-and-white photographs of six other pages (an account of a territorial dispute with Revesby Abbey, and one page containing musical staves) were deposited at the British Library (MS Facs. 713), Cambridge University Library and Lincolnshire Archives.

The Galvin family, by descent, sold at Sotheby's, London, 7 July 2009, lot 21; purchased by the British Library.

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.

MS Facs. 713: a colour transparency of the map, and black-and-white photographs of six other pages (an account of a territorial dispute with Revesby Abbey, and one page containing musical staves), deposited at the British Library in 1970.

Publications:

Ulysse Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum: Catalogue des chants, hymnes, proses, séquences, tropes en usage dans l’Église latine depuis les origines jusq’ua nos jours, 6 vols (Louvain, 1892–1921).

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 107.

Jean Sonet, Répertoire d'incipit de prières en ancien français (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1956).

Hans Walther, Initia Carminum ac Versuum Medii Aevi Posterioris Latinorum, I (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1959).

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books. Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by N. R. Ker & Andrew G. Watson, (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 41.

P. D. A. Harvey, Medieval Maps (London: British Library, 1991), fig. 76.

D. N. Bell, An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries of Great Britain (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1992), p. 191.

Jean A. Givens, Observations on Image-Making in Gothic Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 49.

Pilar Chias Navarro, 'Two Thirteenth-Century Spanish Local Maps', Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 65:2 (2013), 268-79 (pp.277-78, n. 3)online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263251726_Two_Thirteenth-Century_Spanish_Local_Maps [accessed 14 November, 2017].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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