(Q2582)
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Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter, Chertsey, Surrey; C. L. Ricketts, who bought 27 leaves from Leighton, Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1912, no. 49 (now Ricketts MS 47) and 6 further leaves from Tregaskis (now Ricketts MS 23); acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XIV(1/4); 1307-1325
14. century
1307Gregorian
1325Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in black morrocco.
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Other decoration, ff. 1-27: Extensive rubrics in red, versal initials in alternating blue with red penwork and burnished gold with red or pale blue penwork; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in burnished gold on red and blue panel grounds with white tracery.
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Script, ff. 1-27: Liturgical textura.
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Layout, ff. 1-27: 2 columns, ruled in red ink, 32 lines, each column 145 mm. by 37 mm. with 6 mm. between columns; traces of different sequences of old folio numbers in ink and in pencil (now mostly erased).
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Manuscript note: The Chertsey Breviary dates from the abbacy of John of Rotherwick. When complete, it had well over 500 leaves, with a Calendar, the Temporal, a ferial Psalter, and the Sanctoral, all daintily illuminated in the general style of the Queen Mary Psalter (London, BL, Royal MS 2. B. vii). In the early nineteenth century, many of the prettiest initials, fragments of illuminated...
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, pp. 621 and 625; J. R. Graver in ‘Catalogue’ 1988, pp. 9-13, no. 3; Michael and Morgan 1993, p. 33.
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ff. 1-27: Entries are in the hand of the main scribe of Bodlean, MS Lat. liturg. e. 6. (which includes most of the manuscript’s Calendar, with the anniversaries of the deaths of the abbots of Chertsey as far as Abbot Bartholomew, Rotherwick’s predecessor, who died on 15 July 1307) they localise the manuscript and furnish a date of not earlier than 1307.
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ff. 1-27: Latin.
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ff. 1-27: Benedictine Use; comprises leaves (with gaps) from the Common at the end of the Sanctoral, from the common of apostles to the common of a matron, with 12 lections, which shows it to have been of monastic use. Folio 12r has an offset from Bodleian Lat. liturg. d. 42, fol. 42r, one of the few whole leaves among the Douce cuttings, with a historiated initial ‘B’ from the opening of the...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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