Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Manuscript codex containing a late 14th century copy of the Manuale (Sarum use), with musical notation (some pages are now missing). No association with particular churches or indication of provenance. Owned by George Davenport and presented by him to Bishop Cosin's Library around 1670.
Parchment, quires with flesh-side outermost.
Foliated i-ii, 1-69, with 11* for smaller paper leaf.
16 wants 3 (or, more probably, given amount of text lost, 18 wants 3-5) after f.2, 28 + one (f.11*) between 6 and 7, 38 wants almost all 7 after f.19, 48, 58 wants 1 before f.29 and 8 after f.34, 6-98
Pricking in outer margin of f.38. Written space 147 x 97 mm; ruled in ink. 29 long lines. Insertion f.11*, unruled.
Written in textura, expertly, black and red. Latin of insertion f.11*v textura, English anglicana.
Square, Staves 4-line, in deep pink. The items with music are (1), (3), and (8)-(11).
Cadels, some with human profiles, to some musical items. Cadels and text-capitals stroked with red. Initials: (i) to verses and saints in litanies, 1-line, alternately red and blue; (ii) 2-line, in blue, with infilling and flourishing in red; (iii) 4-line, (a) to item (5), in gold, on a bipartite ground of blue and deep pink patterned with white, and extended with crudely executed leaf-stems in deep-pink, green, orange and blue; (b) to item (6), in blue, infilled with gold decorated with rosette in deep pink patterned with white, on ground of deep pink framed with gold, and extended as (a) but the full height of the outer margin; (iv) 6-line, (a) to item (9), in deep pink patterned with white, infilled with gold decorated with seven-petalled flower in alternating blue and deep pink patterned with white, on ground of blue framed with gold, extended as (iii), (b) to item (1), in deep pink (flaked away), infilled with gold decorated with interlaced leaf-stems in blue and deep pink, on a ground as (a), extended as full vinet text-frame of double or triple bands in deep-pink and blue, or, for inner half of lower edge, in gold decorated with interlaced leaf-stems in deep pink and blue, with the outer frame corners elaborated with conventional daisy-buds etc. The style of flourishing and illumination is end of 14th century, but the latter is not metropolitan.
An omission by homoteleuton supplied in a contemporary textura, with a rubric in anglicana, both cropped, f.8v foot; omissions supplied in a mid 15th century mixed hand, f.51r margins.
Bound in Durham, mid 17th century by Hutchinson: millboards covered with brown blind-tooled calf, spine divided horizontally by 11 pairs of fillets, sides panelled with roll A and tool 4, and edges with roll D. Gold-tooled press-mark on spine, 1 mid 19th century clasp.
Written in Southern England, end of 14th century.
Written (from use and English spelling) in the southern half of England. The word “pape” smudged out, f.16v. List of contents in the hand of George Davenport, f.iiv; lettering of quires also by him. Ex-libris and shelf-numbers by Thomas Rud f.1r.
Breaking off in the chant Asperges. Probably three leaves lost after f.2.
Beginning imperfectly.
Without English exhortations. Sarum litany f.5r-v.
The rubric preceding the English vows on f.12r has been largely obliterated by red smudging; a Latin bidding of the bans and alternative English vows, as ed. pp.45, 46, were provided later (15th century) on an inserted piece of paper, f.11*v, at right angles to the original text. The original English vows on f.12r include the spellings “ych” (I) and “onlyche”. The forms “Manda deus ...” and “Creator et conservator ...” were marked early b and a in the margin, to put them in reverse order, f.12v. The original English formula for the ring is on f.12v-13r. Five lines left blank before the next item, possibly for a heading.
The leaf lost between f.19 and 20 contained Psalms 37:17- end, 50 and 101:1-9.
The leaf lost between f.28 and 29 contained the end of the blessings and the beginning of the litany (edition, 112-5).
The leaf lost between f.34 and 35 contained Psalm 118:78-116.
Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis
dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at
various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including
catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss.
,
Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).
Manuale ad vsum percelebris Ecclesie Sarisburiensis : from the edition printed at Rouen in 1543 compared with those of 1506 (London), 1516 (Rouen), 523 (Antwerp), 1526 (Paris) , ed. Collins, A. J. Henry Bradshaw Society 91 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1960)