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MS 223

Main entry--corporate name

Title

Breviarium (fragm.). manuscript

Publication, distribution, etc.

England (perhaps Glastonbury), between ca. 1300 and ca. 1325.

Physical description

1 volume (4 leaves) : parchment, initials.

Note

Fragments of the santorale of a breviary.

Note

The right order of the leaves is 2, 1, 4, 3.

Note

Folio 2rv contains part of lesson 3, lessons 4-7 and part of lesson 8 for St Michael (29 Sep.) and on the verso a commemoration of St Jerome (30 Sep.), Sancti nos domine; f. 1rv has an office of St Michael (for the octave?); f. 4 begins in the office of St Dunstan (21 Oct.) followed by Crispin and Crispinian (25 Oct.) and Simon and Jude (28 Oct.); f. 3rv has lessons 1-4 and part of lesson 5 for All Saints.

Note

See Ker as cited below, pp. 790-1 and n.1, for discussion of the importance of St Dunstan in suggesting Glastonbury as the place of production of this MS.

Note

Formerly pastedowns of Bd.2.14 (formerly Bd.2.17 as recorded in Ker), Paolo Giovio, Historiae, Paris, 1558-60, in a contemporary English binding with gilt centrepiece of a fairly common type.

Note

Two bifolia from one quire, no doubt the first and third sheets of the quire: ff. 2, 3 formed the outermost sheet with catchword 'arche' on f. 3v; probably one leaf is missing between ff. 2 and 1, and ff. 4 and 3.

Note

Written space (only f. 4 is complete): 215 x 145 mm.

Note

Two columns of 28 lines.

Note

Initials: 2-line, alternately in colour on decorated grounds of gold, and in gold on grounds of pink and blue, the latter patterned in white; 1-line, blue with red or red with violet ornament.

Note

Capital letters in the ink of the text touched with red.

Note

Written in England, perhaps for use at the Benedictine abbey of Glastonbury.

Note

Removed from Bd.2.14 and separately bound in the first half of the 20th century.

Note

This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker, as cited in the references below.

Citation/references note

Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 790-1

Cite as

Eton College Library, MS 223

Provenance

Possibly written for Glastonbury Abbey.

Subject

Subject

Subject

Breviaries. Manuscripts.

Subject

Manuscript fragments.

Added entry--place

England Glastonbury.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B50268
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