Fragments of Sarum Missal
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General Information
Gothic Quadrata Bookhand. Single hand with one margin note on fragment 2 verso. Text varies in size with larger decorated initials starting each new section. Rubrication throughout.
Original Condition
The pages are not sequential; the order is unclear.
Current Condition
Recto side stained and dammaged from being pasted down. Some ink fading, small holes, and glue residue. Both pages have been cut, but the text has been preserved.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Decorated initials in blue with red rectangular borders extending along the left side of the columns. The initials are two lines tall. There are two illuminated initials (fragment 1 recto, fragment 2 verso), enclosed in colored boxes with illuminated flourishes on the left margin. Rubricated text indicates different sections of text, including major prayers, starts and ends of masses, and calls and responses.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Sarum Missal
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Content Description
Selections of masses from the Sarum Missal:
First few lines illegible due to damage.
1. Missa ad invocandum gratiam Spiritussancti (fragment 1 recto until the illuminated initial) beginning at "Deus cui omne cor patet..."
2. Ad Missam pro seipso (fragment 1 recto from illuminated inital, continues until decorated 'S' on column 2 on the verso side) "Deus in nomine tuo salvum..."
3. Item pro seipso non Sarum (from the decorated 'S' on column 2, fragment 1 verso) "Suppliciter te Deus Pater..."
4. Missa ad tempore belli with extract from Mark 2:23-26 (fragment 2 recto until the decorated 'I' on the second column) "[re]sistat voluntati tue. Et nunc Domine..."
5. Missa pro quacunque tribulatione (fragment 2 recto from decorated 'I' until the illuminated 'P' on the verso) "Ineffabilem misericordiam..."
6. Missa pro rege (from illuminated 'P' fragment 2 verso) "Protector noster..."
7. Missa pro rege et regina et pro populo christiano (from decorated 'D' in the second column, fragment 2 verso) "Deus in cuius manu cordia..."
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Remarks
Similar to but in a different order than The Sarum Missal edited by J. Wickham Legg and The Sarum Rite edited by William Renwick.
History
Sarum Missals were mostly produced in England and the Northern Continent, so it most likely originated there.
Pasted down in Roy BS485.P7C08 (St. Andrews University Library). Removed in 1955 by D. Cockerell and Son.
Host Volume
The book was gifted to the university of St Andrews by John Young as a part of the Foundation (Royal) Collection for the foundation of the new Common Library in 1612. It was rebound by D. Cockerell and son, during which the fragments were removed.