Guardbook: collection of fragments from ecclesiastical service books

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Title

Guardbook: collection of fragments from ecclesiastical service books

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. D. 894

Place of origin

Netherlands (?)

English, Netherlands (?) (fols. 81–8)

Date

8th century - 15th century

1483

Language

Latin

(fol. 18) Ferial Psalter, use of Sarum (cutting)

Evangelistary

(fol. 32) Missal, use of Sarum

(fols. 43–44) Psalter

(fol. 72) Missal

(fol. 73) Book of Hours

MS. Rawl. D. 894, fols. 81-88 Order of Secular Psalter, Use of Rome; Netherlands (?), 1483

Order of Secular Psalter

1. (fols. 81ra–86vb) Rubric ‘Incipit officium psalmiste ad modum siue ordinarium sacre curie Romane ...’. Invitatoria, antiphons, versicles, responses, canticles, hymns, prayers, chapters and psalms for the year in secular use, with detailed rubrics, written in two columns as prose. The texts are written out in full, apart from psalms, abbreviated to their opening words, in the following order: – Sunday Matins (fols. 81ra–82ra); – Sunday Lauds (fols. 82ra–82rb); – Sunday Prime (fols. 82rb–82vb); – Prime during the week (fols. 82vb–83rb); – Terce (fols. 83rb–83va); – Sext (fol. 83va–b); – None (fol. 83vb); – Sunday Vespers (fols. 83vb–84ra); – Matins and Lauds for each day of the week, from ‘feria secunda’ to ‘Sabbato’ (fols. 84ra–85vb); – Vespers for each day of the week (fols. 85vb–86va); – Compline (fol. 86va–b). Rubrics such as ‘Feria secunda ad vesperas antiphone et psalmi vt infra in psalterio’ (fol. 85vb) and folio references such as ‘Require folio 61’ (fol. 82ra) or ‘Require folio 103’ (fol. 84rb) suggest that the manuscript is a quire from a psalter, probably with psalms in the biblical order (the list of Penitential Psalms on fol. 88rb has the psalms in the biblical order with folio numbers increasing sequentially).

2. (fol. 86vb–87ra) Order of the Gradual Psalms (the opening words of psalms 119, 124 and 129, each ‘cum quatuor psalmis sequentibus’, followed by prayers, cues for versicles, antiphons, etc.).

3. (fols. 87ra–88rb) Litany, including: Martin and Ludowic (Louis of France (?)) among the confessors; Benedict, Francis, Antony (of Padua (?)), Bernardino (of Siena (?)) and Dominic among the ‘sacerdotes’; and Clare (of Assisi (?)) and Elizabeth (of Hungary (?)) among the virgins. The litany is followed by the usual ten Roman collects (cf. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Buchanan e. 5, fols. 118r–119v) (fols. 88ra–88rb): (1) Deus cui proprium est misereri semper et parcere suscipe ... (2) Exaudi quesumus domine supplicum preces et confitentium tibi parce peccatis ut pariter nobis indulgenciam tribuas benignus et pacem. (3) Ineffabilem nobis domine misericordiam tuam clementer ostende ut simul nos ... (4) Deus qui culpa offenderis penitencia placaris ... (5) Omnipotens sempiterne deus miserere famulo tuo pontifice nostro et dirige eum secundum tuam clementiam ... (6) Deus a quo sancta desideria recta consilia et iusta sunt ... (7) Ure igne sancti spiritus renes nostros ... (8) Fidelium deus omnium conditor et redemptor animabus famulorum famularumque tuarum remissionem ... (9) Actiones nostras quesumus domine aspirando praeueni ... (10) Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui viuorum dominaris simul et mortuorum ... Prayers for a ‘pontifex’ in the petitions following the litany and in collect (5).

4. (fol. 88rb) Order of the Penitential Psalms, including the opening words of psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129 and 142 with folio references. Dated at the end: ‘1483’. Fol. 88v is ruled, otherwise blank.

Form

codex

Support

parchment, paper

Decoration

Initial, fol. 18. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 968)

Initials, fols. 19–20. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 407)

Fine border, initials (mutilated), fol. 32. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 879)

Good borders, initials, fols. 43–44. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 568)

Initial, fol. 72. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 963)

Good initial, fol. 73. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 852)

Musical notation

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

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Rawlinson, Richard, 1690-1755

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