Gradual — 12th century, end; Irish

Title

Gradual — 12th century, end; Irish

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. C. 892

Date

12th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 149 + i fol., a leaf missing after fol. 128 and 2 (?) at the end.

Hands

Written by two hands. The scribe of the main part begins the quires with the invocation O emmanuel in the right top corner of the 1st page (cut off on fols. 37, 97, 144), the second wrote fols. 109–31 with a markedly Irish hand (see also fol. 131v, 144).

Decoration

Good and other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1272, pl. CXVII)

A large coloured initial on the titlepage; others on fols. 9, 68v, 81, 114.

Musical notation

Point-neum notation of 12 staves of 4 red (37, green) lines. The clefs are indicated by letters, mostly b, D and d.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Provenance

Pächt and Alexander suggested that the MS. was probably made for the Benedictine cathedral priory of Downpatrick, after 1183, but it has recently been attributed to Lismore Cathedral.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Title

Gradual

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. C. 892

Date

late 12th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 item