Manual, Benedictine — 14th century, first half; English
MS. Barlow 32
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Manual, Benedictine — 14th century, first half; English
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 32
Date
14th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Some fine, other good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 616)
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Binding
Contemporary, red leather upon bevelled boards, two brass and leather clasps, one broken.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Provenance
Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Liber sepulture Randulphi de Londoniis D. xiiii G. iiii Et est liber Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis." (s. xiv). "LIBER RAND' DE LONDONII S " (three dots in between words). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
"Liber Thomae Barlow è Coll. Reg. Oxon' anno MDCXXX". (MLGB3)
Medieval binding. M. R. James, p. 533. (MLGB3)
Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691
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Title
A Benedictine manual
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 32
Summary
A Benedictine manual, from st. Augustine's, Canterbury, with music, containing:
Baptism (p. 1)
Holy water services (p. 39)
Private prayers in another hand (p. 47)
The ordinary and canon of the mass (p. 71)
Visitation of the sick (p. 93)
Services for the dead (p. 196)
Prayers for use after confession have been added in a 16th-cent. hand at p. 272
A table of contents by dr. Barlow is on p. vii
Date
Written in the 14th century in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with illuminated capitals, etc.; binding, contemporary, red leather upon bevelled boards, two brass and leather clasps, one broken
Physical extent
278 pages
Custodial history
There is an erased inscription on p. ii. 'Liber Rand[olphi] de Londoniis' and 'Liber sepulture Randulphi de Londoniis D. xiiii G. iiii Et est liber sancti Augustini Cantuariensis', for which see M. R. James, Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover, p. 533 (first half of the 14th cent.), are on p. iii, and 'Liber Thomae Barlow è coll. Reg. Oxon' anno MDCXXX' on p. iv.
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Collection contents
A Benedictine manual
