Breviary of Chertsey Abbey — 14th century, first quarter, 1307 or later; English
MS. Lat. liturg. e. 39
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Breviary of Chertsey Abbey — 14th century, first quarter, 1307 or later; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. liturg. e. 39
Place of origin
English
Date
14th century, first quarter, 1307 or later
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii (paper) + 161 + ii (paper)
Hands
Gothic
Decoration
Seven fine historiated initials: (fol. 1r) 'S'[iluester] with St. Silvester addressing four men. 'C'[elebritatem] with St. Paul on the road to Damascus. (fol. 88v) 'P'[eracta] with the Martyrdon of St. Lawrence. (fol. 108v) 'H'[odie] with the Nativity of the Virgin; rubbed. (fol. 118v) 'C'[(recte E)rant] with St. Matthew writing, his symbol above. (fol. 125v) 'N'[ouem] with St. Michael. (fol. 147v) 'G'[loria] with a Gnadenstuhl Trinity surrounded by the Evangelist symbols.
Borders.
Other initials.
Musical notation
Square notation on staves of four red lines
Binding
18th(?)-cent. diced brown leather over pasteboards, repaired in the 19th-cent.(?) as a cased-binding; the spine lettered in gilt 'OFFICIVM | SANCTOR.'; the text-block almost detached from the binding
Acquisition
Acquired by the Bodleian from him in the same year.
Provenance
Chertsey Abbey: (1)Calendar in MS. Lat. liturg. e. 6 with obits of the abbots from Bertram (d. 1197 (?)) to Bartholomaeus (d. 1307) entered in the original hand; (2) Litany in MS. Lat. liturg. e. 6 in which SS. Beccanus and Edor follow St. Benedict; (3) emphasis on St. Erkenwald, founder of the abbey, with special feasts for his octave, 30th April, fols. 38v,-39, 42v, 44 of the present MS.
'William Matthews', written on a flyleaf with the watermark 1825
Rt. Hon. Beresford Hope (1820–87), with his bookplate, and an erased shelfmark (?) 'T-3' (fol. i verso) as in manuscripts from the Hopetoun collection, in his sale at Sotheby's, 23 March 1882, lot 167
Sotheby's, 29 July 1946, lot 108, bought by Francis Edwards
Rt. Hon. the Lord Saltoun, sold at Sotheby's, 10 July 1967, lot 86, bought by J. R. Abbey (inscribed 'J. A. 7397 | 10.7.1967)
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