Service books. Religious texts
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Four contiguous vellum fragments, together forming the upper outer quarter of a leaf of a mediaeval rubricated and noted service book, possibly a breviary of Italian provenance., ?13th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.19
Scope and Contents
There is no stave, the notes being written above the various syllables. The portion of text visible appears to relate to the Feast of Saint Lucy (13 December). In the margin of the recto are written, in a German hand of the 18th century, what appear to be notes of five book-titles, the significance of which is not known.
Dates:
?13th century.
Miscellaneous vellum and paper fragments from various sources., 15th century, 18th century, ?20th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.27
Scope and Contents
The fragments are as follows:(i)-(vi) Six small fragments of vellum, of which five appear to come from the same source, which may be a large service-book, such as a breviary, of 15th-century French provenance, although not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Graeca’. Not enough of the text is visible for any certain identification to be made. Of these five fragments, three are largely blank, having been cut from the inner margin of the leaf or leaves: portions of large red initials are...
Dates:
15th century, 18th century, ?20th century.
Miscellany of ten vellum fragments., 13th century, 16th century or 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.34
Scope and Contents
The largest fragment (which is almost broken in two) consists of the lower margin and a few words, amongst which the beginning of a section ‘Respice quis domine’ and ‘paschali’ can be read, of a bifolium from a 13th-century rubricated religious manuscript, probably a service-book. The other nine fragments (some of which are printed, at least in part) appear to be of a document, or documents, of French provenance, of the 16th or 17th century.The fragments were recovered from the...
Dates:
13th century, 16th century or 17th century.
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.8
Scope and Contents
Underwriting: Such identification as has been achieved is due to N R Ker, in ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, iii, 169 and what follows; and E A Lowe, ‘Codices Latini Antiquiares’, supplement. Ultra-violet photographs of folios 1 + 8, 4 + 5, 9 + 16, 28 + 31, 19 + 22, 3, 30 recto, and 26 + 33 are in MS.8494, folios 1-15.Folios of the manuscripts (i), (ii), (iv), and (v) have generally been turned sideways and folded to form sheets of the new volume;...
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
'Rosslyn missal', a manuscript written in Ireland probably for Down Cathedral, Downpatrick.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Ireland, probably for Down Cathedral in Downpatrick. Lawlor has dated the work as probably of the 13th or early 14th century based on palaeographic evidence. Henry and Marsh-Micheli have suggested the work could also be attributed to the 12th century based on the decoration. This manuscript is a missal of the English (pre-Sarum) type introduced into Ireland from the later 12th century, with a few archaic, possibly local, features. The missal appears to have...
Dates:
13th century.