(Q42963)
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Missal, Sarum use, and selections from votive masses and sequences
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Missals--England--14th century
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14th-15th century
14. century
15. century
1300Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i + 220 : parchment.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Compositve volume written in England; part 1 is a Missal, Sarum use, possibly copied in the first quarter of the fourteenth century (the calendar and sanctorale, f. 181, include Thomas of Hereford, canonized in 1320, but the calendar still places the feast of the relics on 15 September rather than at the moveable date of the first Sunday after the Translation of Thomas of Canterbury (between...
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Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-204v. Date: 1300-1350. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 212(-1) 3-812 912(-5, before f. 94) 10-1212 1310 14-1712 1812(-11, 12). 2 columns of 36 lines for the main text, 29 lines for the canon, ff. 91-96vb (first 5 lines). Ruled space, 230 x 140 mm; ruled in brown crayon with double ruling between columns, top 2 lines full across, and occasionally a narrow double rule...
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Part 1. Decoration: Opening leaf of the canon, presumably with decoration, now missing. Parted red and blue initials infilled with void leaf design or red whorls on ff. 93 (13-line), 17 (7-line) and 96v, 108v, 113, 120, 145v, 189 (5- or 4-line). 2-line initials alternating red and blue with simple flourishing; 1-line initials within the text in red or blue; blue paragraph marks; rubrics...
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Part 2. Span folios: ff. 205-212. Date: 1400-1450. Support: Parchment. Layout: One gathering of 8 leaves. Ruled space, 215 x 137 mm; 2 columns of 36 lines ruled in black ink, top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins. Written in a littera textualis with black ink.
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Part 2. Decoration: 3- and 2-line blue initials with red flourishes and simple red infilling; initials within the text filled in yellow; rubrics.
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Part 3. Span folios: ff. 213-215v. Date: 1485-1499. Support: Parchment. Layout: One gathering originally of 4 leaves, now missing the last. Formal text on ff. 213v-214v only: ruled space, 235 x 125 mm; 2 columns of 39 lines ruled in brown crayon, top and bottom 2 full across; pricking in outer margin and against inner bounding line. Written in a littera textualis in brown ink with added...
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Part 3. Decoration: 2- and 1-line plain red initials, space reserved for rubrics.
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Part 4. Span folios: ff. 216-222v. Date: 1440-1460. Support: Parchment. Layout: A gathering once of 8 leaves, now missing the second. Leaf signatures in roman numerals on ff. 216, 217; catchword, f. 222, with pattes-de-mouche on either side, set towards the right corner. Ruled space, 225 x 137 mm; 2 columns of 37 lines ruled in ink; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins. Written in a littera...
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Part 4. Decoration: One 4-line initial, f. 216, and 2-line initials in blue with rudimentary red flourishing and infilling; 1-line initials in the text alternating red and blue; rubrics.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/6/2009.
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A note added to the calendar at 1 July in the late fifteenth century reads: Obitus iohannis Nuby, katerine uxoris eius et agnetis Nuby et omnium fratrum et sororum istius loci. The volume was n. 398 in a book dealer's catalogue, with the relevant slip now glued to the front pastedown. Acquired with funds of the Friends of the Huntington Library from Scribner in July 1958.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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