Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Missal (fragment), 15th century, reused as pastedown, possibly from the same manuscript as DUL Add.MS 1950/B/13
Parchment
No pricking visible. No ruling now visible. Written space 229 x 170 mm. 2 columns. 30 lines
Written in textura
Initials: to each lection and sequence, 2-line; to verses of sequences 1-line, both plain red or blue, alternately.
Written in Low Countries, 15th century.
Former front pastedown, with light stains of turn-ins of covering Shelfmark of source: Routh 5.C.8, now SB+ 0103 - Opera Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginensis, inter latinos Ecclesiae scriptores primi, sine quorum lectione nullum diem intermittebat olim diuus Cyprianus, per Beatum Rhenanum (Paris: apud Ioannem Roigny ..., 1545), binding calf, blind panels; rolls of festoons and scrolls, brass corner edgings, clasps now missing; inscription "De usu fratris Henrici Gravij prior predicatorum Novimagen" (Henricus Grauius, prior of the Dominicans of Nijmegen, Netherlands). Portfolio II/19a (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
Sequences, end of one (for Nativity?), Stephen - Epiphany
“... Solo fugiet in odore morboset demonia laude dignus est honore nigrique memoria Martir cuius est iucundum nomen in ecclesia langues? entera sane mundus celesti fraglancia. Amen”
“De sancto io[hanni]. Christi laudes decantet hic chrous psallens die ista ...”
“De innocentibus. Celsa pueri ...”
“In <circumcis>ione [alteration] Ecce iam uotiua festa decurrunt ...”
“in epyphania Domini. Festa christi omnis christianitas celebret
... in quo sum placatus hodie ...”