Missal, Franciscan, Calendar, Temporale, Sanctorale, Common of saints and of the dedication, Votive masses, Masses of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Ghost, the Cross and the Virgin, Blessing of holy water — 13th century, third quarter, c. 1255–1260; English, Cornwall (?)

Title

Missal, Franciscan, Calendar, Temporale, Sanctorale, Common of saints and of the dedication, Votive masses, Masses of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Ghost, the Cross and the Virgin, Blessing of holy water — 13th century, third quarter, c. 1255–1260; English, Cornwall (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. liturg. f. 26

Place of origin

English, Cornwall (?)

Date

13th century, third quarter, c. 1255–1260

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iv + 159 leaves (iv + 157 + iii)

Decoration

Miniature for each month in the kalendar in blue, gold, red and green, badly cropped.

Blue initials with red flourishes.

Titles in red, rubrics black and red underlined.

Musical notation

Square notation on 13 staves of 3 or 4 red lines.

Binding

19th cent. straight-grained morocco.

Acquisition

Given to the Bodleian in 1940. Formerly MS. Lat. th. f. 11

Provenance

The fact that in the kalendar the feast of St. Bernard is added in a later hand and the presence in the original hand of the dedication of the basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul perhaps points to a date about 1260 (cf. S. van Dijk, The breviary of St. Francis, Franciscan Studies IX, 1949, pp. 27, 28). On fol. 2v is a note concerning the Sunday letters, with the date 1311. On fol.1 is an erased inscription.

Feasts added on 6 June and 23 August point to Cornwall.

Feast of St. Oswald described as 'festum patrie' (added to Calendar, 29 Feb., 14th century)

Walter Seton, Sotheby's 28 July 1927, lot 21

Bought by A. G. Little