Troper ('Winchester' or 'Aethelred Troper') — Multiple dates; English, Winchester, Old Minster
MS. Bodl. 775
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Troper ('Winchester' or 'Aethelred Troper') — Multiple dates; English, Winchester, Old Minster
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 775
Place of origin
English, Winchester, Old Minster
Date
additions, 12th century
11th century, middle;
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 191 + i fol.; a leaf missing after fol.1, another at the end, after fol.190.
Hands
Partly written by the same hand as B.L. Cotton Tiberius C. VI. probably from Winchester.
Decoration
Fine initial (fol. 8). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 48, pl. V)
Capitals alternately in green, blue and red.
Musical notation
Adiastematic, non-rhythmical Winchester neums. Later hands changed the neumatic notation either into adiastematic (fol. 159) or diastematic point neums on staves of 3–4 red or dry-point (fol. 133v) lines; some Notker letters, especially in part B.
Binding
Original boards and sewing, repaired.
Provenance
Winchester, Hampshire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun: Provenance inferred from liturgical character, see S.C. 2558. (MLGB3: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar).
Written for Winchester Old Minster (liturgical evidence).
Probably among the manuscripts given in 1611 by William Harwood, prebendary of Winchester.
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