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Stowe MS 12
- Record Id:
- 040-001952789
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x000222
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173716.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 12
- Title:
- Breviary ('Stowe Breviary')
- Scope & Content:
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Breviary of Sarum use adapted to Norwich. The contents are:
f. 1r-154v, Temporale. Imperfect at the beginning, apparently a whole quire being lost. The first page begins near the end of the rubrics for the first week in Advent, followed by 'Feria ii'.
f. 155r-156v, Brief notes of English history, chiefly relating to the births and deaths of kings, from the death of Edward the Confessor [1066] to the coronation of Edward II (25 February 1307/8); and brief notes of events, chiefly in ecclesiastical history, from 1064 to the execution of Thomas, Duke of Lancaster, 22 March 1321/2, entitled 'gesta tercie revolutionis sequentis tabule', referring to the cycle described in the article which follows, and especially recording events connected with Norwich and the neighbouring dioceses.
ff. 157r-v, Table of the Paschal Cycle of 532 years, formed by multiplying together the solar cycle of 28 years and the lunar of 19 years.
ff. 158r-163v, Calendar.
f. 164r-v, Black folio with Latin notes in two later hands.
ff. 165r-222v Psalter, Canticles, Litany (in two forms), Benedictions. Imperfect, wanting the first leaf, the text of Psalms I and II being supplied in an early 17th-century hand on the preceding page.
ff. 223r-357v, Sanctorale. Imperfect, wanting the first leaf. At the end (ff. 354v-357v) is added in a later hand (with the initials not filled in) the Service for the Feast of the Transfiguration, 6 August.
ff. 358r-395r, Ordinale. This article is in a different hand, and did not originally form part of the same volume as the rest. It was produced c.1350-1380. The illuminated border on the first page also differs in style. In the initial letter are the arms azure a bend or, a label of three points argent, being those of Scrope of Masham. In the central point of the label is an indistinct charge, gules.
The illumination includes 46 large historiated initials, with three-sided or partial foliate borders, in colours and gold; large decorated initials, many including human heads, with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold; small initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing, some including human heads or grotesque figures and 1 marginal drawing of a grotesque figure, in brown ink (f. 68r). The subjects of the historiated initials are as follows:
f. 16v, Nativity.
f. 20v, Martyrdom of Stephen.
f. 23v, John the Evangelist writing on a scroll ('S. Iohannes') with an eagle, his symbol, at his feet.
f. 25v, Herod overseeing the Massacre of the Innocents by knights.
f. 27v, Martyrdom of a Bishop.
f. 40r, Adoration of the Magi.
f. 87r, Resurrection of Christ with praying angels and sleeping knights.
f. 109r, A baptism.
f. 121r, A woman before a king.
f. 125v, Men disputing.
f. 128r, An angel laying hands on a man in bed.
f. 130r, Judith beheading the sleeping Holofernes.
f. 131r, Antiochus slaying the Jews.
f. 136r, Ezechiel.
f. 150v, A bishop sprinkling holy water on a church with a liturgical spoon; behind him a deacon stands next to a font of holy water and holds a hyssop.
f. 171v, David pointing to his eyes.
f. 176v, David pointing to his closed mouth.
f. 180r, A fool before a seated king.
f. 184v, Jonah emerging from the mouth of the whale.
f. 190r, David playing bells.
f. 195r, Three monks singing.
f. 200v, The Trinity.
f. 225r, The bishop saint Nicholas of Bari resurrecting three murdered children from a pickling vat.
f. 228r, Meeting at the Golden Gate: Joachim and Anna embracing.
f. 232r, Conversion of Paul.
f. 238v, Paul.
f. 242v, Presentation in the Temple: Mary, accompanied by Joseph bearing gifts, presenting Jesus to the priest Simeon.
f. 247r, John at the Latin gate.
f. 250r, Augustine.
f. 252r, Barnabas.
f. 257r, John the Baptist, holding the Agnus Dei.
f. 261v, Peter and Paul.
f. 270r, Translation of Thomas of Canterbury.
f. 274v, Margaret.
f. 276v, Mary Magdalene.
f. 279v, James.
f. 285r, Peter holding the chains of his imprisonment.
f. 292r, Lawrence being martyred on a grill, tormented by demonic executioners.
f. 297v, Exaltation of the Cross: a monk venerating Christ on the Cross.
f. 305r, Michael the archangel spearing the dragon.
f. 314v, Luke.
f. 315v, A cluster of male and female heads.
f. 319v, A cloaked bier surrounded by spikes.
f. 324r, Martin.
f. 329r, Edmund the Rich: a bishop in a mitre, holding a crozier.
f. 334v, Catherine, holding her wheel and a sword.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952786
040-001952789 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 10-30 : CLASS II.LITURGICAL BOOKS.
Stowe MS 12 : Breviary ('Stowe Breviary') - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0002]/036-001952786[0003]/040-001952789
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165173716.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1322
- End Date:
- 1380
- Date Range:
- 1322-1325 and c 1350-1380
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 185 mm (text space: 200 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 395 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Binding: Post-1600. Gold- and blind-tooled brown leather; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Norwich, England.
Provenance:
Perhaps made for a member of the secular clergy in the Diocese of Norwich, between 1322 and 1325: the calendar includes Thomas de Cantilupe, 2 October (f. 162v), canonised in 1320, and a note of the beheading of Thomas, Duke of Lancaster, in March 1322 (f. 157r). The last appointment of a bishop of Norwich mentioned is John Salmon (d. 1325) (f. 156v, line 14).
Inscription, after 1344: note of debt for £100 by Philip and Walter de Moundeville to William de Cusance, king's clerk and Lord Treasurer (f. 164r).
Scope of Marsham, owned by before 1383: a rubric on f. 377v mentions the year 1383 as a future date; his arms (f. 358r).
Sir Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672): recipe for making ink in his hand (b. 1597, d. 1672), dated 28 December 1628 (f. 357v).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, owned by: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press 3 no. 35', corresponding to his catalogue (O'Conor 1818-1819).
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos, owned by and sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Publications:
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Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols (Buckingham: Seeley, 1818-1819), II, pp. 46-50.
The Palaeographic Society: Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Second series, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, Edward Maunde Thompson and George Frederic Warner (London: Cloves and Sons, 1884-1894), II, pl. 197.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, no. 12.
George F. Warner, Illuminated Manuscripts in The British Museum, Series I-IV (London: British Museum, 1903), pl. 32.
Sydney C. Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter, A Manuscript of the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century in the Library of C.W. Dyson Perrins (London: Chiswick Press, 1907), p. 3.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 227.
M. R. James, 'List of Manuscripts from the Cathedral Priory of Norwich now Existing in English Libraries,' Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 19 (1915), 93-119 (p. 38).
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), III: English A.D. 1300 to 1350 (1921), pl. 5.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 2, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. 14.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 27.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1928), p. 80.
Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorating the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Introduction of the Book of Common Prayer (London: British Museum, 1949), no. 6 [exhibition catalogue].
Joan Evans, English Art 1307-1461, Oxford History of English Art, 5 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1949), p. 41 n. 2.
Lilian M. C. Randall, Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966). p. 37.
Peter Lasko and Nigel J. Morgan, Medieval Art in East Anglia 1300-1520 (Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, 1973), nos. 12, 20, 26.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels and other Fenland Manuscripts (London: Harvey Miller, 1974), pp. 98-99.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'An Early Fourteenth-Century English Breviary at Longleat', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 39 (1976), 1-20 (pp. 4-5).
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 945 [with additional bibliography].
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'An Early Fourteenth-Century English Psalter in the Escorial', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 42 (1979), 65-80 (pp. 76-78).
Lucy Freeman Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 5, 2 vols. (Harvey Miller: London, 1986), II, no. 79.
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. by Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski (London:Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987), nos. 360, 575.
Michael A. Michael, 'Oxford, Cambridge and London: Towards a Theory for 'Grouping' Gothic Manuscripts,' The Burlington Magazine, 130 (1988), 107-15 (p. 113).
Michael A. Michael, 'Deconstruction, Reconstruction and Invention: The Hungerford Hours and English Manuscript Illumination of the Early Fourteenth Century,' English Manuscript Studies 2, (1990), 33-108 (pp. 61ff., pls. 29, 32, 36, 45).
John B. Friedman, Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), pp. 118, 246.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 92.
Caroline S. Hull, 'Abbot John, Vicar Thomas and M. R. James: The Early History of the Douai Psalter', in The Legacy of M. R. James, Papers from the 1995 Cambridge Symposium, ed. by Lynda Dennison (Shaun Tyas: Donington, 2001), pp. 118-27 (p. 122 n. 16).
Sherry L. Reames, 'The Office for St. Cecilia', in The Liturgy of the Church, ed. by Thomas J. Heffernan and E. Ann Matter (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2001), pp. 245-70 (pp. 265, 268).
Christina Dondi, The Liturgy of the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: A Study and a Catalogue of the Manuscript Sources, Bibliotheca Victorina, 16 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 18, 107.
Kay Brainerd Slocum, Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pl. on p. ii, pp. 14, 239, 262-90, ill. 6.
Sherry Reames, 'Origins and Affiliations of the Pre-Sarum Office for Anne in the Stowe Breviary', in Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance, Essays Dedicated to Andrew Hughes, ed. by John Haines and Randall Rosenfeld (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 349-68.
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 188.
Michael A. Michael, ‘Seeing-in: The Macclesfield Psalter’, in The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Papers, ed. by Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2007), pp. 115-28 (p. 117 n. 15).
Richard W. Pfaff, The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History (Cambridge: University Press, 2009), pp. 339, 423-24.
Nigel Morgan, 'The Sanctorals of Early Sarum Missals and Breviaries' in The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honour of Richard W. Pfaff, ed. by George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), pp. 143-61 (p. 157).
- Exhibitions:
- Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint, British Museum, London, 20 May 2021 - 22 August 2021
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)