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Glossed Hymnal
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, v modern paper flyleaves + 38 fols. + v modern flyleaves, 178 x 122 mm (110 x 68 mm), 17 long lines for main text, varying number of lines of interlinear and marginal gloss, ruled in faint plummet, catchwords
BINDING: Late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, leather over pasteboards, gold- tooled around edges, LAUDES M.S.S. 1230 gold-stamped on spine
SECUNDO FOLIO: nauta vires colligit (main text), Quo nostro Christo (gloss)
SCRIPT: Gothic bookhand (textualis)
CONTENTS
fols. 1r-9v Hymns for the Offices of the days of the week
fols. 10r-30v Hymns for the Temporal and the Sanctoral from Advent Sunday to the feast of St Martin (11 Nov.)
fols. 30v-34v Hymns for the Common of Saints
fols. 34v-35r Hymns for Trinity Sunday
fols. 35r-35v Hymns for the Dedication of a Church
fols. 36r-37r Hymns for St Francis
fol. 38v Hymn for a confessor bishop (fifteenth-century addition)
ORNAMENTATION
Red and blue pen-flourished initial [P, 4 ll.] with foliate infill (fol. 1r); red penwork initials [2 ll.] for incipits of hymns.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1890)
14th Century, Early
Production date:
circa
AD 1300
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 110 mm
Width 68 mm
Page
Height 178 mm
Width 122 mm
Inscription present: main text
Inscription present: gloss
Accession number: MS 162
Primary reference Number: 209455
Project ID: 390
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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