![]() ![]() Its small size would have made it a convenient book for a cleric to have at hand while travelling (and we can imagine from the wrinkling of the parchment that it may have been exposed to rain, although this of course could have been a modern occurrence).Ģ. for example Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 315, that includes Johannes Beleth’s Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis, from the late twelfth century, 232 x 161 mm.), and from most manuscripts including texts used at the University. The format of this manuscript, it should be noted, is unusually small, clearly setting it apart from earlier monastic manuscripts of similar texts (cf. The script generally supports this provenance, although without additional evidence it is only a possibility. Given its contents, it is tempting to suggest that this manuscript was made for a cleric studying in Oxford, a city that certainly had an established commercial book trade at this date. ![]() 135, discussing the rainy hyades (Greek nymphs who were changed into stars, and were said to bring rain) there is a reference to a word in English, “scrures,” probably “sciures” or showers (“… que lingua anglica possunt dici scrures …”). ![]() 1230, but the script and decoration are conservative, and the manuscript may have been copied not long after that date. The evidence of the script and pen decoration support an origin in England in the second quarter of the thirteenth century the script is written below the top ruled line, suggesting a date after c. Its study offers the opportunity to make an important contribution to our knowledge of the liturgy and pastoral care in England in the thirteenth century. Its small format suggests it was used by a well-educated cleric (associated with Oxford?), who took his pastoral responsibilities seriously. This is the only known copy of an unpublished, and indeed unstudied, liturgical commentary by an anonymous author, possibly the author’s own copy, together with Jerome’s glossary of biblical names. 1260,” slight wear to corners and edges, boards bowed, but in good condition. Bound in nineteenth-century brown leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, smooth spine with title in gilt, “English illuminated Manuscript/ c. 130, part of an addition to the text in the bottom margin trimmed, occasional minor loss of pen decoration at the bottom edge, but otherwise in very good condition. 50-59v, partially detached, cockled, trimmed, f. 69v-70, larger stains over text, which remains legible, ff. 1v-2, and 94, stained, outer margins, ff. 1, four-line parted red and blue initial with red and blue pen decoration, ff. iv (i-ii, modern paper, iii-iv, earlier paper) + 136 + iv (i-ii, early paper, iii-iv, modern paper) on parchment, modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto, 1-94, 94bis-135, apparently complete (collation, i-v12 vi12 vii-xi12 xii12), no catchwords or signatures, ruled in lead with the top two and bottom two horizontal rules full across and full-length single vertical bounding lines (justification, 122-118 x 82-80 mm), written below the top line in an upright gothic bookhand in twenty-three long lines, red rubrics, one-line alternately red and blue initials, two-line alternately red and blue initials with pen decoration in the contrasting color, f.
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