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Arundel MS 130

Record Id:

040-002039413

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002039280

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000292

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel MS 130

Title:

Ordinal and noted Breviary (use of Sarum) with other texts

Scope & Content:

The manuscripts contains:

ff. 1r-100r: Ordinal and noted Breviary, Use of Sarum.

ff. 100r-117v: Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus de plana musica.

f. 118r: The Gret Sentence or Magna sentencia excommunicationis (fragment), dealing with offences that deserve excommunication (Index of Printed Middle English Prose, ed. by Lewis and others (London: Garland, 1985), no. 122). Begins: 'the ryght presentment of a kyrke' (imperfect). Ends: 'in tyll that they ware out of the cete'.

The production of the manuscript is datable to between 1455 and 1461. The coat of arms on f. 1r belonged to Henry Percy, who assumed these arms when he became earl of Northumberland in 1455; he died six years later. It is not included in A.G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable manuscripts, c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1979).

Decoration:

1 large initial in gold on a ground in blue and red, incorporating heraldic arms of Henry Percy, and a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 1r).

Small initials (2-3 lines) in gold with light brown (foliate) pen-flourishing or in blue with red (foliate) pen-flourishing.

Small initials (1 line) and paraph marks in plain red or blue.

Line-fillers in red and blue.

Paraph marks in silver, red and blue.

Cadels.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002039280
040-002039413

Is part of:

Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts

Arundel MS 130 : Ordinal and noted Breviary (use of Sarum) with other texts

Hierarchy:

032-002039280[0131]/040-002039413

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1455

End Date:

1461

Date Range:

1455-1461

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 300 x 195 mm (text space 240 x 155 mm).

Foliation: ff. 118. Three blank, unfoliated, modern paper endleaves at the beginning, and three at the end.

Collation: i-viii⁸ (ff. 1-64), ix^8-1 (ff. 65-71; 6th leaf cancelled), x⁶⁺² (ff. 72-79; 4th and 5th leaves inserted), xi-xiv⁸ (ff. 80-111), xv⁴ (ff. 112-115), xvi^three (ff. 116-118).

Script: Gothic hybrid (Bastard secretary; Bastard anglicana, f. 33v-48v).

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Henry Percy (b. 1421, d. 1461), 3rd earl of Northumberland, magnate: his arms, and in the borders a crescent moon and pair of manacles (f. 1r).

?Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.

Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.

The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1r).

Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, pp. 30-31.

Walter Howard Frere, The Use of Sarum, 2 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1898-1901), I: The Sarum Customs as set forth in the Consuetudinary and Customary, pp. lvii-lviii; II: The Ordinal and Tonal (Cited as 'A' in both vols).

Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: by order of the Trustees, 1906-09; repr. 1964-66), pp. 301, 307.

Guidonis Aretini: Micrologus, ed by Jos. Smits van Waesberghe, Corpus Scriptorum de Musica, 4 ([Rome]: American Institute of Musicology, 1955), pp. 33-34 (cited as 'Lo8').

Michel Huglot, Les Tonaires: Inventaire, Analyse, Comparaison, Publications de la Société Française de Musicologie, 3rd ser., 2 (Paris : Société Française de Musicologie, 1971), pp. 346, 456.

O.S. Pickering, 'Notes on the Sentence of Cursing in Middle English: Or, A Case for the Index of Middle English Prose', Leeds Studies in English, 12 (1981), 229-44 (pp. 237-38).

R.E. Lewis and others, Index of Printed Middle English Prose (London: Garland, 1985), pp. 44-46 (no. 122).

The Theory of Music, ed. by Joseph Smits van Waesberghe and others, 6 vols (Munich: Henle, 1961-2003), IV: Christian Meyer, Manuscripts from the Carolingian Era up to c. 1500 in Great Britain and in the United States of America, Descriptive Catalogue, Répertoire international des sources musicales, B III 6, 2 parts (1992), I, pp. 63-64.

Niamh Pattwell, 'A Sentence of Cursing in Pembroke College, Cambridge MS 285', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 35 (2004), 121-36 (pp. 124, 136n).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Guido of Arezzo, music theorist and teacher, c 991-after 1033,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116211353,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36956566
Howard, Henry, 6th Duke of Norfolk, 1628-1684
Howard, Thomas, 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and first earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician, 1585-1646,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000020886292
Percy, Henry, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 1421-1461

Related Material:

From the Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 30-31:

'Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 118, inter annos 1446 et 1461 descriptus in usum Henrici de Percy, Comitis Northumbriæ. In capite fol. 1. depicta sunt ejusdem Comitis insignia gentilitia.

1. Breviarium, sive ordo officiorum ecclesiasticorum secundum usum Sarisburiensem, eum notis musicalibus. fol. 1.

2. "Micrologus liber de plana vivifica", ex Guidone Aretino, h. 1. dicto de S. Mauro, aliisque. fol. 100. Incip. "Quid est vivifica? Vivifica est." 3. A fragment of a catalogue of offences which deserve excommunication. fol. 118.

Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland; his arms occur in the border decoration of f. 1r.

includes:

f. 1 Liturgies, Liturgical Books and parts of such: Breviarium secundum usum Sarisburiensem, cum notis musicalibus.: Sec. xv.
f. 100 Guido, Aretinus, Abbas Avellanensis; claruit anno 1022: Micrologus liber de plana vivifica, ex Guidone, hoe loco dicto de S. Mauro, aliisque.: Sec. xv.
f. 118 Excommunication: A fragment of a catalogue of offences which deserve excommunication.: Sec. xv.'