Antiphoner — 11th century, late (?). Dunning et al. suggest a date of s. xi 1 (s. xiex?) for the fragment in Royal MS. 12 F. XIV ( 'Reconstructing Burnt Anglo–Saxon Fragments', Fragmentology, 1, [2018], p. 35).; England, Winchester (?)

Title

Antiphoner — 11th century, late (?). Dunning et al. suggest a date of s. xi 1 (s. xiex?) for the fragment in Royal MS. 12 F. XIV ( 'Reconstructing Burnt Anglo–Saxon Fragments', Fragmentology, 1, [2018], p. 35).; England, Winchester (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Selden Supra 36*

Place of origin

England, Winchester (?)

Date

11th century, late (?). Dunning et al. suggest a date of s. xi 1 (s. xiex?) for the fragment in Royal MS. 12 F. XIV ( 'Reconstructing Burnt Anglo–Saxon Fragments', Fragmentology, 1, [2018], p. 35).

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (modern paper) + 1 (parchment) + 2-7 (modern paper), with the paper leaves practically blank A note by EWB Nicholson at the beginning of the volume states that this leaf was folded over and inserted at the beginning of MS. Selden Supra 36and that it was removed and rebound as a separate volume on July 16 1909. (A note at the beginning of MS. Selden Supra 36 records the same details.) On this, see also Nicholson's comments that he had the fragment removed after H. M. Bannister discovered and identified it, with Nicholson reporting Bannister's view that the fragment 'must have belonged to a large Winchester Antiphoner' ( Introduction to the Study of Some of the Oldest Latin Musical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford [London: Novello, 1913], p. xxxi, fn. 3). The wooden board and the turn-ins of the cover of MS. Selden Supra 36contain an imprint (in reverse) that is probably from this fragment. MS. Selden Supra 36 still retains a very small fragment of the same text, comprising only a few letter-forms, at fols 73–74. Another fragment of this text is in London, British Library, Royal MS. 12 F. XIV, fols 1–2 and fol. 135, with 'Neumes; Silver and gold? letters, rubrics and initials in silver' (Andrew Dunning, Alison Hudson and Christina Duffy, 'Reconstructing Burnt Anglo-Saxon Fragments in the Cotton Collection at the British Library', Fragmentology, 1, [2018], p. 35). Susan Rankin observes that the fragments are 'unusually wide (written space 219/216 × 150 mm) for a chant-book' (Music Booksin The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 1, ed. Richard Gameson, p. 502, n. 94)

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1659

Provenance

'Thomas Nortonus' may have owned the leaf in the 16th century

John Selden, 1584–1654