Royal MS 2 A XIII

PASSIONARIUS, or Martyrology, and Collectarius, &c., viz.:-

1. Martyrology of Usuardus, monk of S. Germain des Prés (d. 877), adapted for English use. Without preface. The archetype of the Usuard text must have resembled the S. Germain MS., now Bibl. Nat. lat. 13745 (see Migne, Pair. Lat. cxxiii. 601), but the text as here written embodies many strata of accretions, both Gallican and English. In the latter may be traced the influence probably of Canterbury and certainly of Winchester, but the book itself was most probably written near Gloucester or somewhere in the S.-Western counties, after 1220 (Transl. of S. Thomas). The festivals of All Souls and Translation of Edward the Confessor (both enjoined by the synod of Oxford, 1222), Wulfstan (Jan. 19), Translation of Edward the Martyr (June 20), and Edmund the Archbishop (canonized 1246; June 9 and Nov. 16) are early marginal additions. Begins 'Circumcisio domini nostri Iesu Christi. Rome natalis sancti Almachii'; ends 'Deinde dicat sacerdos alta uoce Isti et omnes sancti iusti et electi dei', &c. 'Explicit excepcio de annuali uolumine quod sacerdos religiosus ac monachus Usuardus ad sanctorum recolendas' (sic). f. 1. At the end (f. 51 b) is a list, circ. 1300, of double and major double feasts according to Sarum use, and, in a 15th cent. hand, S. Luke iv. 38-43.

Artt. 2, 3 are written in a larger hand of the same or slightly later date.

2. Collectarius, containing the capitula and collect or (with art. 3) that portion of the canonical offices which was not included in the Psalter, Antiphonary or Lectionaries but was in later times usually combined with them in the Breviary. Of English (probably Sarum) use. The De Tempore begins f. 52; Proprium Sanctorum, f. 78 b; Commune, f. 100 b. In the margin about twenty-five festivals are added in I4th-15th cent. hands, most probably in the diocese of Worcester (SS. Oswald and Wulfstan, ff. 79, 81, 81 b, 84 b, 96). The Commune includes a few lections De S. Maria. f. 52.

3. Hymnarius, containing ninety-eight hymns (one repeated twice), all of which, in nearly the same order,' are in Harley MS. 2951 and other Sarum Hymnals. f. 108-115 are misbound and should follow f. 123. Beg. 'Conditor aline siderum'. f. 121.

4. Part of a Sarum Pica, inserted leaves of smaller size (6.1/2 x 4.1/2 in.) in a hand of circ. 1400, containing the rules for beginning the historiae In pricipio, from Wisdom, Si bona, from job, Peto Domine, from Tobit, Adonay, from Judith, Adaperial, from Maccabees, and Vidi Dominum, from Ezekiel, which are read from August to November. f. 136. Vellum; ff. 147. 7.1/2 in. x 5.1/4 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, a new series beginning with art. 2. Sec. fol. 'etiam acutissimas'. Initials in red and green. The fly-leaves (ff. 144-147) are part of a large 14th cent. Antiphonal, the music not inserted. At f. 94 b are some 14th cent. accompts with the names of Radulfus de la Breche (?), Adam Croefod and others. Belonged to john Theyer. Possibly Theyer sale-cat., no. 255; CMA. 6478.