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Part 1. ff. i r-v, 1-204v [Missal, Sarum use]: f. i r-v: votive masses [added in late 15th c.]; ff. 1-6v: graded calendar; ff. 7-90v: temporale (Advent-Easter Eve); ff. 91-93v: prefaces (2 with notation); ff. 94-96v: canon of the mass, lacking the Crucifixion miniature; ff. 96v-145v: temporale (Easter through 25th Sunday after Pentecost); ff. 145v-188: sanctorale; ff. 188-204v: common of saints. Part 2. ff. 205-212v: [Votive masses; quire added from another book, early 15th c., beginning defectively; the complete masses are pro quacumque tribulacione (2 sets); contra aereas potestates; pro infirmo; pro benefactoribus vel pro salute minorum; pro specialibus amicis; pro defunctis (many sets); orationes generales pro vivis et defunctis; Gloria, with 6 inset phrases mainly referring to the Virgin]. Part 3. ff. 213-215v: [Votive masses; quire added from another book, late 15th c.]: f. 213: the Mass for St. Gregory's Trental, collect, secret and postcommunion only; ff. 213v-215a: Masses with full office of Anne and Anthony abbot; f. 215b: Mass pro mortalitate evitanda, introit, ""Recordare,"" through part of the lection from Luke. Part 4: ff. 216-222v. [Sequences; quire added from another book, mid-15th c.]: 32 sequences from the first Sunday of Advent, ending defectively in the Purification; one leaf missing after f. 216, with loss of text from the end of the sequence for Stephen through the beginning of the sequence for the Circumcision. Title supplied by cataloger. 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 8-14 July); this change of date was established in 1319). Parts 2-4 (leaves from votive masses and sequences) were written during the fifteenth century. 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 in the outer margin; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins. Written in a littera textualis, using brown ink; on ff. 92v-95v music notation on 4-line red staves. 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 throughout. 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. Part 2. Decoration: 3- and 2-line blue initials with red flourishes and simple red infilling; initials within the text filled in yellow; rubrics. 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 passages on ff. 213, 215r-v in a secretary script. Part 3. Decoration: 2- and 1-line plain red initials, space reserved for rubrics. 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 textualis in black ink. 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. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/6/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in late 15th century calf over bevelled wooden boards; 2 replacement straps to pins on back cover; rebacked; restored by Gertrude Weadock of New York, March 1939. HM 19918. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Missals--Texts--Early works to 1800 Missals England 14th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
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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