Catalogue of Durham University Library Cosin MS V.i.3

Durham University Library Cosin MS V.i.3Breviary (Sarum Use)
Held by: Durham University Library: Cosin Manuscripts

Manuscript codex, Breviary of Sarum use, written in England in the earlier 15th century. The presence of local feasts - Felix, bishop and confessor (March 8); the Translation of Edmund the King (April 29), Dominic (August 3), Thomas of Hereford (October 2), and Francis (October 4) indicate this breviary was used in the diocese of Norwich. A book of complex origin, mostly produced, and finally assembled, in a single workshop. There are seven main sections (A)-(G), to which further material was subsequently added (items 3-4 and 10). One section (D) is the Kalendar item (8), while (E) originally comprised the Common of time; of the other five sections only (C) has integral lections, but (A) provides the lections for (B), leaving only (F) and (G), the Common of saints and Sanctoral, with no lections now in the manuscript. (B + F + G) and (C) were apparently written for two separate books, (B) then being extended with a short quire (13: f.86-89), written by a scribe, (IIIb), perhaps not found elsewhere in the book, to join it to the front of (C); by this stage (C) had apparently lost the outer bifolium of its first quire (14), and so needed a replacement for its last leaf (f.100), which was perhaps written by a scribe (IIIc) not found elsewhere in the volume. (A), to judge by the size and position of its text block, was originally intended to form part of a wider book, but in the event was only written to the end of the lection required before the start of (C), with most of the final page of (A) left blank; the final sentences of this lection survived on the first leaf of (C), f.90, but these were also included at the end of (A), f.35^v, so avoiding the inconvenience of a split lection. The production of the seven sections began independently, except that the main scribe of (B), (F) and (G) could be identical; (C) has larger quires than the rest of the manuscript, but is uniform with (B) and (E)-(G) in written space and number of lines, whereas (A) differs in both respects from all the other sections. The differences between the cadels provided in five of the sections are the same as those between the scribes; they are in three hands, one being found only in (E), a second in (F), (G) and all of (B) except its supplementary final quire, and the third in that quire and on the supply leaf in (C)'s first quire (f.100). For the principal initials, however, that in (A) is identical in style to those in (B) and one of those in (G), whereas those in (E) are different; in (A), (B) and (G) there are also catchwords in drawings of dogs. (E) does have notation in the hand largely responsible for (B), (F) and (G); all the original notation in (C) is in a hand not found elsewhere in the manuscript. The flourishing of the minor initials in the latter part of (C) is by the same hand as in (E); a second hand was responsible in the first five quires of (B), together with (F) and almost all (G), and a third hand in the latter parts of (A) and of (B), in part of (C), in the Kalendar (D), and for short stints in (G). By this stage it seems clear that the seven sections had been brought together. Supplementation took place in two phases. Items (3) and (4), on a subquire inserted into quire 12, were written in a hand not found elsewhere in the manuscript, and have blank spaces for both cadels and minor initials, but the notation is in the same hand as the short quire (13) completing (B), the supply leaf (f.100) at the end of the next quire, parts of the following leaf (f.101) and the bifolium (f.375+378) added to the second quire of (G). This bifolium, also in a hand not found elsewhere in the manuscript, has a minor initial in a style quite different from any others; it forms part of an irregular quire (43), in which it proved necessary to cancel a leaf, and where the notation of the first five of the older leaves (f.373-374, 376-377 and 379) is in a hand not found elsewhere in the manuscript. The second phase of supplementation is represented by item (10), added on the blank leaves at the end of (E), presumably after the ex libris was entered at the end of item (9). The spaces for initials and notation were left blank; the same hand is found completing item (7), where there is also a blank space for an initial.

Physical description of manuscript

Support

Parchment, quires with flesh-side outermost, but sometimes difficult to identify; some natural flaws (stitching gone, f.295, 361, patched f.428)

Extent: i+462+i f

Size: 373 mm x 260 mm

Foliation

Foliated 1-459, with 225, 321 and 323 repeated.

Secundo folio: missing

Collation

(A) f.1-35: 1⁸ wants 2-4 (except stubs of text) after f.1, 2-3⁸, 4⁸ with 1 and 8 (f.22 and 29) a replacement bifolium, 5⁴, 6²; (B) f.36-89: 7⁸ wants 1 before f.36, 8-10⁸, 11⁸ wants almost all 7 after f.72, 12⁸⁺⁴ (f.81-84 inserted between 7 and 8), 13⁴. (C) f.90-295: 14¹² wants 1 before f.90, 15-27¹², 28¹² wants 1 before f.256 and 11 (except stub of text) after f.264, 29¹² wants 2 after f.266 (stub now apparently before f.266), 30¹², 31¹² wants 1 before f.289 4-5 (except stubs of text) after f. 290 and 11-12 (blank) after f.295. (D) f.296-301: 32⁶ (E) f.302-342: 33⁸ wants 1 before f.302, 34⁸ wants 7 after f.314, 35⁸ wants 1 (except stub of text) before f.316 and outer half of 8 (f.321*), 36⁸ wants 7 after f.326, 37⁸ wants 3 (fragment of illumination on stub) after f.329, 38⁸ (F) f.343-365: 39⁸ wants 3 after f.344, 40-41⁸ (G) f.366-459) 42⁸ wants 1 before f.366, 43¹⁰ wants 2 (apparently cancelled) after f.373 with one bifolium (f.375 and 378) supplied as 3 and 6, 44⁸ wants 6 (except stub) after f.386, 45⁸ wants 6 after f.393, 46-48⁸, 49⁸ wants 7 (except stub of text) after f.425, 50⁴ (2-3 single leaves tipped together), 51⁸ wants 3 (fragment of illumination on stub) after f.432 and 6 (cancelled) after f.434, 52-53⁸, 54⁸ wants 2 after f.453 and 8 after f.458.

Catchwords: Catchwords or tops of them on quires 1- 5, 7-14, 33-34, 36, 39-40 and 42-53; in cartouches, or, quires 4-5, 12 and 46, enclosed in dog like drawings, or, quires 13 (to f.90/9), 14 (added ?) and 48 (added), plain.

Signatures: Leaves in the first half of quire 29 numbered, also signed (q); cf. red “i”, f.1^r. Quire 2 signed a, in red; 7-11, a-e; 15-31, b-s; 42, + (f.368^r); 43-45, a-c; 47, c; 49, k (f.422^r); and 50, s (f.428: sij).

Condition of manuscript All edges cropped, but especially outer edges of (A). Holes after writing in f.67, outer corner and edge of f.192 and lower edge of f.194 torn away, with a little loss of text; initial cut out of f.39^v. Tears in f.191, 270 271, 440, repaired. Lower outer corners of (E) soiled from use. A broad strip (60 mm.) cut from the lower margin of f.365.

Layout

Pricking in outer margins of (B) and parts of (F) and (G), twice on f.41-42 and 430, spaced 12, 6, 12, 6 mm, to provide pairs of lines for text between staves, see the unused ruling on this basis on f.84^r-^v and 365^r-^v. Written space 267-292 or, (A), 293-297 x 173-192, or, f.59^r-73^v (quires 10-11), 170, or, f.10^v-35^v, 194-198, or f.1-10, 206 mm; ruled in grey ink, not always making the third line omitted by pricking in (B), (F) and (G). Two columns; 10-15, or, (A), 18-21 mm apart. 48, or, f.118-119, 47, or, (D) Kalendar, 33, or, (A) 38 lines; pages with staves have 16 written lines, with staves occupying 2 writing lines, cf. pricking system above.

Script

Written in textura, with varying proficiency, by twelve [AID] or at least eighteen [AJP] hands: I, f.1^r-10^r/a; II, f.10^r/b-21^v/b35 and 23^r-25^r; IIIa, f.21^v/b35-22^v and 34^r-35^v; IV, f.25^v-28^v and the rubrics of f.10^r-25^r; V, f.29^r-33^v; VIa, f.36^r-80^v, 85^r-^v, 343^r-359^v, 366^r-374^v, 376^r-377^v and 379^r-458^v; VII, f.81^r-84^r; IIIb, f.86^r-89^v; VIIIa, f.90^r-99^v and 101^r-c.137; VIIIb, f.c.137-220^v; IIIc, f.100^r-^v; VIIIc, f.221^r-295^r/a44; IX, f.295^r/a44-^v and 339^r/a23-342^v; X, f.296^r-301^v (quire 32); XIa, f.302^r-328^v; XIb, f.329^r-339^r/a22; VIb, f.360^r-365^r; XII, f.375^r-^v and 378^r-^v.

Noted pieces in all items except (8); blank spaces for staves and notation in item (10), and blank staves for pieces eslewhere.Square notation, by at least five original hands, I-III always using letter-form clefs, and, using H-form notation, one later: I, f.1^r; II, f.36^r-80^v, 85^r-^v, 302^v-336^v, 343^r-372^v and 380^r-458^v; III, f.81^r-83^v, 86^r-89^v, 100^r-^v, 101^r/a3-^v/a14, 375^r-^v and 378^r-^v; IV, f.90^r-99^v, 101^r/a1-2 and 101^v/a15-290^v; V, f.373^r-374^v, 376^r-377^v and 379^r-^v; VI (later, added on unfilled staves), f.186^r. Staves unfilled on f.103-4, 105^v, 106^v-7^r, 109^r-^v, 177^v, 178^r; no staves or notation on f.339^r-42^v.

Decoration

Not executed in added items, 3-4 and 10. Paraphs, in (A), (B), (E), (F) and (G), in red or blue. Initials: Offset on f.326^v of the inner border from lost following leaf. Flourishing by at least five hands: I, f.1^r-13^v; II, f.14^r-35^v, 74^r-80^v, 85^r-89^r, 100^r-112^v, 296^r-301^v, 396^r-400^v, 404^r-^v and 411^v-419^r; III, f.36^r-72^v, 343^r-374^v, 376^r-377^v, 379^r-395^v, 401^r-403^v, 405^r-409^v and 420^r-458^v; IV, f.90^r-99^v, 277^r-288^v; V, f 113^r-276^v, 289^r-295^r and 302^r-337^v. No flourishing on f.81^r-84^r, 295^rb, 375^r-^v or 378^r-^v.
Cadels by at least three hands, I and III with many human profiles: I, f.36^r-80^v, 85^r-^v, 343^r-374^v, 376^r-377^v and 379^r-458^v; II, f.86^r-89^v and 100^r-^v; III, f.302^v-336^v. Unfilled spaces for cadels, f.81^r-83^v; none, f.339^r-342^v, 375^r-^v or 378^r-^v.

Corrections and annotation

Texts supplied in textura in margins, f.190^r (cropped), 192^r, 312^r, one, f.51^r (with music) implementing a cursive marginal note. Early corrections, over erasure, e.g. f.137^ra, 315^rb, 417^ra, some implementing cursive marginal notes, e.g. f.43^r, 350^v, 446^r and, with erasure left blank, 435^r. Many early cursive marginal corrections, e.g. f.5^v, 30^v, 42^r, 93^r (supplying blank rubrics), 283^r, 327^r 328^r, 356^r, 386^r, 396^r, 399^r, 420^r-^v, 442^r-^v, 454^r, but overlooking e.g. “nessitatibus”, f.328^r/b26; also “caret”, f.374^v, referring to matter supplied later on f.375^r-^v. Notes of defects, e.g. “Hic deficit iij^o fo”, f.156^r, “Hic deficit sed quere in libro Ma^e”, f.160^r, and the like elsewhere. Supplementation, mostly to extend lections, in two hands, one an early corrector, e.g. f.124^v, 201^v, 202^r, 210^r-^v, 211^v, 212^r, 215^v, 221^r, 234^v, 288^r, the other mid 15th century, in yellowish ink, e.g. f.198^v, 200^v, 204^r, 205^r, 211^r, 217^v, 224^r, 234^v, 288^v, 392^v, 404^v. Texts, mostly lections, marked for omission, “va” - “cat”, by an early corrector, e.g. f.46^v, 47^r, 111^r, 113^r, 117^v, 118^r, 134^r, 242^v-250^r, 254^r, 258^r-259^r, 262^r-263^r, 268^v-270^r, 273^v, 276^r, 287^v. Musical notation added, f.186^r. Amplifying ritual directions, in two hands, one an early corrector, e.g. f.43^v, 52^v, 58^v, 135^r, 160^r-^v, 397^r, and the other the later supplementing hand, e.g. f.185^r-^v, 194^v, 195^r, 214^r. “Qui Iurat per membra ihesu christi”, 16th century, washed out but legible in ultra-violet light, f.342^v. Many corrections, supplies and annotations cropped.

“Thomas”, i.e. of Canterbury, consistently erased, f.75^r-77^v, with office crossed through; erased in Kalendar, f.299^r and 301^v, f.413^r, but rewritten in ink, (16th century?); untouched, f.24^r; “pape” erased and neatly replaced by “epi” in Kalendar; elsewhere occasionally crossed out, e.g. f.33^v.

Binding

Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century)

Manuscript history

Creation

Written in England, East Anglia?, early 15th century.

Provenance

A lengthy inscription at the foot of f. 1, erased or washed-out, is now unreadable.
Inscription: “Iste liber constat Ecclesie sancti iohannis baptiste de cowtyssale iuxta Norwicum in Comitate norff”, 15th century, lightly erased, f.339^r, preceding item (10). Some annotation, e.g. f.185^r-^v, implies the presence of a clerical staff. The advowson of Coltishall (Norfolk) church was acquired by the master and brethren of St Giles hospital Norwich c.1450, and later by King's College Cambridge, although it was not separated from the mastership of the hospital until 1522. An obit on 17 June probably refers to John Smyth, rector of Coltishall 1474-9, master of St Giles hospital 1479 until his death in June 1489.
Obits in Kalendar item (8): Mag. John Smyethe, (17 June) [15th/16th century], Robert Postille, 1504 (29 Aug.), Water At Ode, Cecela Hert, both 1506 (28 Feb., 10 Mar.), Raphael Baspole, 1536 (24 Feb.), Walter Baspole, 1558 (30 May); a 15th century note, “compitus inter {dominum} Rob' reg' <et> Rob <...> inter Dm <W>”, f.297^r, against 11 March.
Episcopal Library inscription, by Rud, early 18th century, f.1^r. Pencil notes on f.177^r, 180^r, by H. W. Acomb, University Librarian 1935-45.

SECTION: (A)

Manuscript contents

(1) f.1^r-35^v

Original title: Lectiones de tempore

Incipit: Dominica prima aduentus domini post inchoacionem tercie antiphone quidam puer librum cum lumine ad pulpitum

Explicit: gentiles munera: glorie quod adorant. Tu autem.

Language: Latin

Adventus - dies iii infra octavis Epiphanie, defective: with a gap between f.1 and 2 (xxv/16 lxxv/8). This complements items (2) and (4); the text of the last 9 lines is also found at the start of item (5). The lections for Advent IV feria vi are omitted (f.13^v); the ferial lections for the Vigil of Epiphany follow the Sunday lections. Type (v) initial to Circumcision; type (vi) to Epiphany; type (vii) to Christmas day. f.35^v ruled but largely blank; also lower half of col. b of f.22^v, because bifolium is a supply leaf of missing text.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, I, xx-cccxxxviii

SECTION: (B)

Manuscript contents

(2) f.36^r-80^v; 85^r-89^v

Original title: Temporale

Incipit: ... et ueni ut ab iminentibus peccatorum nostrorum periculis te mereamur

Explicit: Sermo beati maximi episcopi leccio prima Audistis fratres karissimi. R Magi uenerunt. R Interrogabat. R. ...

Language: Latin

Adventus - dies iii infra octavis Epiphanie ... defective; most of the leaf between f.72 and 73 is cut away, leaving only fragments. The lections as item (1); other material for the octaves of SS Stephen, John ev. and Innocents is item (4). Texts of some responsories and verses at Terce, Sext and Nones are given in full, e.g. St John ap. (f.72^r-^v). The rubric “de conclusionibus” is much expanded (f.36^r-^v). The Innocents procession “ad altare sancte trinitatis et omnium sanctorum” has only cues for the texts (f.72^v); these are given in full at nocturn iii (f.73^v-74^r). Type (viii) initials to Christmas vigil vespers Rex and Christmas matins Hodie, f.59^r, 60^v.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, I, vii-ccxcix/32; cccix-cccxxxviii

(3) f.81^r-83^rb

Original title: Servitia B.V.M.

Date: Inserted, 15th century

Incipit: Hic primo fiant matutine de sancta maria in conuentu Invitatorium Aue maria

Explicit: dicatur ad iij^a capitulum Ab initio Ad vj^a capitulum Et sic in syon Ad ix^a capitulum Et radicaui

Language: Latin

Without lections. Post Nat. Dom., Epiph., Purif., Pasch. The lections are item (7)

Edited: Brev. Sarum, II, 292-297; I,lxxii-lxxiii; II,298-311; III,dccclxxx-dccclxxxiv

(4) f.83^rb10-84

Original title: Temporale

Date: Inserted, 15th century

Incipit: Ad j^a de sancto stephano siue dominica fuerit siue non. antiphona Lapidauerunt

Explicit: visionem pertingere mereamur Qui tecum Sequatur memoria de sancta maria cum antiphona Quando natus versicul' et oratio ut supra

Language: Latin

Without lections. Prima in octavis S. Stephani - octava SS. Innocentium. Supplies material omitted in item (2), f.80^v. The lections are on f.30^r-31^v in item (1). f.84^rb-^v ruled but blank.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, I, ccxcix-cccx

SECTION: (C)

Manuscript contents

(5) f.90^r-287^va

Original title: Temporale

Incipit: ... redemptor est mundi. Quomodo ergo non priuilegio

Explicit: sed quod adiecerat qui creauerat quod auctum erat. Tu autem domine miserere nostri

Language: Latin

dies iii infra octavis Epiphanie dominica xxv post festum Trinitatis (defective). The lections for Epiphany Octave V are from Ephesians, as in the Hereford and York uses, rather than Philippians (f.116^r-118^r). The first 6 lines of the text are crossed through; they repeat the text at the end of item (1). There are no tables, no lections for Epiphany Octave I feria vi (f.109^r), no texts after the Pater Noster at Lent I feria ii terce (f.139^r), no texts except lections for morrow of Corpus Christi (f.227^r), no list of Marian antiphons Easter Ascension, no Trinity XXV antiphons (f.287^v), no rubrics on memorials, collations, paschal candle, feasts in Easter week, feasts on Trinity. Antiphons are provided for Quinquagesima feria ii vespers and feria iii (f.131^v-132^r); Easter week compline ends with the antiphon "Regina celi" and three verses (f.186^r). Easter feria iv Lauds final antiphon is cued as “Descendi.” (f.189^v). Cues for antiphons and psalms of nocturns in Trinity season are given (f.233^v). Psalm cues are given for Easter II - IV and Rogation feria ii, Easter II - IV ferias iii - vi (f.199^r-200^r). Some texts are given in full, e.g. Epiphany Octave I Sunday second vespers, feria ii nocturn and lauds hymn (f.100^r-102^v), compline of Easter Octave, Vigil of Ascension, Pentecost (f.192^v, 206^v-207^r, 215^r). The texts for memorials of the Cross, BVM, and All Saints at matins and vespers are given before the Great Rubric (f.236^r-237^r). Lections are provided for Epiphany Octave IV and V feria vi (f.115^v-116^r, 118^r), Sexagesima Saturday (f.127^v), Quinquagesima feria iii (f.131^v-132^r), Easter I, II, IV ferias v and vi (f.197^r-^v, 199^v-200^r, 204^r), Easter III ferias iv and v (f.201^r), Ascension Octave (f.211^v), Trinity ferias iii and iv (f.222^v-223^r). Some lections are longer, e.g. Epiphany Octave I feria v lection iii ends at Romans 10:31, rather than Romans 4:17 (f.108^v); some shorter, e.g. Lent II first nocturn (f.144^r-^v). Trinity I lections vi - ix are given both under the day (f.235^r-^v) and under Gospel expositions (f.277^r). In the blocks of Trinity season lections Sundays are distinguished from ferias, are numbered and have six rather than three lections (f.238^v-277^r); the Gospel expositions are placed after the collect (f.277^r-287^r). There are marginal additions to the lections Easter feria v - Trinity (f.190^r-221^r).

Edited: Brev. Sarum, I, cccxxxviii-mccccxlviii, with gaps between f.255 and 256 (mcclxvii/21-mcclxxxi/24), 264 and 265 (mcccxvii/22-mcccxxxvi/25), 266 and 267 (mcccxliv/2-mcccxlix/29).

(6) f.287^va-291^vb

Original title: Festum dedicationis ecclesie

Incipit: In dedicacione ecclesie ad primas vesperas super psalmos hec sola antiphona. O quam metuendus

Explicit: similiter fiat de festo loci ubi octaue habentur.

Language: Latin

Defective. No lections within the octave. The rubric concerning the Trinity season is placed at the end.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, I, mccccxlix-mccccxcii, with gaps between f.288 and 289 (mcccclvi/10-mcccclx/37), and 290 and 291 (mcccclxxxiii/28-mcccclxxxvi/21).

(7) f.291^vb-295^v

Original title: Lectiones servitiorum B.V.M.

Incipit: Quando fit plenum seruicium de sancta maria per aduentum. leccio prima. Missus est angelus

Explicit: pertrahat ad coronam qui viuit et regnat in secula seculorum amen.

Language: Latin

Complements item (3). f.295^v ruled but largely blank.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, I, lxxiii-lxxvii; II, 298-300; I, dccclxxix-dccclxxxi; II,305-314

SECTION: (D)

Manuscript contents

(8) f.296^r-301^v

Original title: Kalendar

Incipit: KL Prima dies mensis; et semptima trunca in ensis iij A Circumcisio domini Januarius ix lecciones

Explicit: xiij A ij kl Sancti Siluestri episcopi et confessoris ix lecciones

Language: Latin

Graded up to 9 lections, with principal feasts in red. Lucian on 9 not 8 January. Omitting Erkenwald (30 April), Ordination of Gregory (3 Sept.), Trans. Erkenwald (14 Nov.), and memorials of Hermes (28 Nov.), Sabina (29 Aug.), Nichomedes (15 Sept.), and Menna (10 Nov.). Including Felix bp & conf. (8 March), Trans. Edmund king (29 April), Processus & Martinian (2 July), Sixtus, Felicissimus & Agapitus (6), Donatus (7 Aug.), Francis (4 Oct.), memorials of Alexander, Eventius & Theodulus mart. (3 May), and Primus & Felician (9 June). Among feasts of ix lections are Dunstan (19 May), Trans. Edmund bishop (9 June), Octave of Nativity B.V.M. (15 Sept.), and Nicholas (6 Dec.), but not Vedast & Amand (6 Feb.), Crispin & Crispinian (25 Oct.), or Machutus (15 Nov.). Added later: “dedicacio ecclesie” (25 Jan.), Botulf (17 June), Visitation (2 July), Trans. Osmund (16 July), Dominic ix lections (5 Aug.), Transfiguration ix lections (6 Aug.), Name of Jesus (7 Aug.), Euphemia, Lucian & Geminian (16 Sept.), Thomas of Hereford ix lections (2 Oct.), Edmund king “festum duplex secundum sarum” (20 Nov.), [Os]mund (4 Dec.). Erased: entries on 16-19 October (red on 17 and 19), replaced by standard entries; also Thomas mart. (7 July and 29 Dec.), rewritten 16th century. Some of these differences are reflected in the Sanctorale itself, item (12); cf. prefatory notes above. There are a few obits added in various hands.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, I, pref:iii-xiv

SECTION: (E)

Manuscript contents

(9) f.302^r-339^r

Original title: Commune de tempore

Incipit: ... secundum iusticiam eius: et psallam nomini domini altissimi. Domine dominus noster:

Explicit: Omnes sancti orate pro nobis. Propicius esto et cetera. ut supra. Amen.

Language: Latin

Defective: gaps between f.314 and 315 (66/29-72/37), 315 and 316 (78/32-84/31), 326 and 327 (168/22-174/24), and 329 and 330 (191/24-194/44), with half of f.321* cut away (127/23-130/9). Except Ps. xciv (f.326^r), the psalms not used at ferial nocturns and vespers are omitted (f 317^v 325^v, 334^r, 336^r); Ps. lxiv is given in feria iv lauds (f.321^v-321*^r). Hymns "Eterne rerum" and "Deus creator" omitted (f.307^r, 336^v). Additional rubrics on psalms and antiphons (f 302^v-329^r), on "Te Deum" (f.305^v), and for martyrology and obits at Prime (f.312^v). Sunday lauds rubric and antiphons arranged differently (f.305^v-307^r). Second and third chapters for Terce, Sext and Nones placed after feria ii lauds (f.316^v-317^r). The memorials of the Cross, B.V.M., and All Saints at matins and vespers are given before the Great Rubric in item (5) (f.236^r-237^r) above. Sunday vespers ends with a noted Magnificat, immediately followed by compline, in which common and proper are consolidated (f.330^v-332^v), and then ferial vespers (f.332^v-336^v). The lenten litanies omit Ethelwold on feria v and include Gorgonius and Alban on Saturday (f.338^v). Two texts, the second noted, of Benedicite, (f.306^r-307^r), and Benedictus (f.307^v-308^r). Sunday and ferial chants for "Ecce iam noctis" (f.307^r), festal and ferial chants for "Te lucis" (f 331^r); seasonal chants for hymns: Prime, 24 (f.308^r-309^r); Terce, 4 (f.313^r); Sext, 3 (f.313^v-314^r); Nones, 4 (f.314^v). Type (viii) initials to Pss xxxviii, lii and lxxx, f.317^r, 319^v, 324^r.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, II,11-88, 95-196, 221-228; I, xii-xv; II,196-221, 250-260

(10) f.339^r-342^v

Original title: Officium mortuorum

Date: Inserted, 15th century

Incipit: In obsequijs mortuorum ad vesperas antiphona [P]lacebo domino

Explicit: dominum nostrum. Amen. [R]equiescant in pace. Amen.

Language: Latin

Spaces for music unfilled. f.342^vb ruled but partly blank.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, II, 271-283

SECTION: (F)

Manuscript contents

(11) f.343^r-365^r

Original title: Commune sanctorum

Incipit: In natali unius apostoli siue euangeliste uel plurimorum apostolorum paschali temporis

Explicit: Adducentur regi uirg' uirg' In uigilia sancti andree appostoli. Ad vesperas supra.

Language: Latin

Gap between f.344 and 345 (363/17-366/4). Between a confessor & bishop and a confessor & abbot provision is made for a confessor & doctor, consisting of three chapters, as for Augustine, and a collect (f.358^r). The hymns are provided with between two and five chants each. f.365^r largely blank, 365^v blank, both ruled.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, II, 355-459

SECTION: (G)

Manuscript contents

(12) f.366^r-458^v

Original title: Sanctorale

Incipit: ... eius. Ps. Eructauit cor. versiculus In omnem terram exuit leccio j^a Proconsul ege. R Dum per ambularet

Explicit: Dissolucionem sui corporis imminere Quia iudicauit se ...

Language: Latin

Andreas - Martinus ... defective: with gaps between f.386 and 387 (133/25-138/35), 393 and 394 (213/37-237/2), 425 and 426 (580/39-584/36), 432 and 433 (687/23-693/12), and 453 and 454 (949/19-962/20). Winifred collect has the rubric “non sarum sed prouinciale cantuarie” (f.457^v). A collect and lection i cue is provided for Felix bp & conf. after Perpetua & Felicity (f.393^r), and for Edmund k. & m. after Vitalis (f.396^r-^v). There are additional rubrics: listing feasts on which Gospel exposition not read at matins, after Nicholas nocturn iii psalm verse, and again in Lucy matins (f.371^r, 373^r); listing feasts of three lections “sine regimine chori” with double invitatory, under Octave of Andrew (f.372^v); extending Mathias final rubric (f.393^v). Festal and ferial chants are provided for the hymns for Nativity John Baptist (f.401^v, 402^r), and Peter & Paul (f.406^v). There is no provision for the deposition of Osmund (f.369^r), deposition of Erkenwald (f. 396^r), Visitation of B.V.M. (f.412^v), Osmund (f.416^v), Mary ad nives, Transfiguration, Name of Jesus (f.427^r-^v), Frideswide (f.453^v), or John of Beverley memorial on 25 October (f.453^v). Conception of B.V.M. is covered in summary form with cross reference to Nativity, ending “secundum usum modernum sarum” (f.373^r). There is only the collect and lection i cue for David, and Chad (f.393^v). There is no provision for John ante Portam Latinam little hours, and the rubric precedes the collect for John of Beverley (f.400^r). Sabina memorial is only a collect, given after John Baptist collect in Augustine vespers ii (f.435^v). After Oswald k. & m. the arrangement is: Dominic collect; Sixtus & co. collect and lection i cue; Donatus collect and lection i cue; Cyriacus & al.; Romanus; Lawrence, with Tiburtius memorial; Hippolytus & al., with Eusebius memorial; Eusebius; Vigil of Assumption (f.427^r-431^v). The texts are given for Assumption compline i (f.432^v). Remigius & al. rubric on vespers refers to only Leger memorial, followed by Leger collect and lection i cue, Thomas of Hereford collect, Francis collect, Faith collect (f.450^r). Type (viii) initials to John Baptist nativity Fuit, B.V.M. nativity Hodie, and All Saints Summe, f.402^v, 439^r and 454^r, also, leaving a trace on stub between f.432^r and 433^r, to B.V.M. Assumption. The omission of the latter part of In cathedra Petri vespers i was supplied in the margin (f.392^v); subsequently cropped.

Edited: Brev. Sarum, III, 5-1013

Microfilm

Microfilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham University Library.

Bibliography

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]).

Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesiae Sarum , ed. F. Proctor & C. Wordsworth, (Cambridge: CUP 1879 1886)

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