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Missal

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Exeter, Exeter Cathedral Library, MS/3548B

Fran Álvarez, Fragmentarium. 2022 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Missal
Shelfmarks MS/3548B
Material Parchment
Place of Origin England?
Date of Origin Early 13th century
Script, Hands

Early form of Gothic textualis showing lateral compression, with short ascenders and descenders. Angular bowl used in a with head leaning over it. Tail of g is closed. Round s used occasionally at word end and rarely at the beginning of some nomina sacra. 2-shaped r consistently used, although biting is not regularly found. Red rubrics written in a smaller, rounder script, though probably by the same scribe. Punctus simplex and punctus elevatus used throughout.

'2-line initials, red, green, or blue. Probably English'. (Ker, Medieval Manuscripts, p. 340).

Corrections by the same hand as well as later ones found across most pages. Similarly, occasional late marginal or interlinear additions can be seen on fo. 5r or 7r. The latter must have been added when the two quires were already in their host volume. It refers to the rolls of Easter term (in Exeter) from 1560 and to a certain Richard Heynson, who was then clerk of the Cathedral Exchequer.

Original Condition

Page Height 257 – 330 mm
Page Width 169 – 243 mm
Height of Written Area 235 – 245 mm
Width of Written Area 155 – 160 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 75 mm
Number of Lines 30
Line Height 8 – 9 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions Page size, (1) 279/302 x 222/234 mm, (2) 257/300 x 178/228 mm, (3) 287/298 x 195/236 mm, (4) 299/330 x 188/232 mm, (5) 279/296 x 226/239mm, (6) 275/300 x 213/239 mm, (7) 262/300 x 169/236 mm, (8) 258/299 x 230/243 mm; written area, (1) 240/244 x 160 mm, (2) 238 x 160 mm, (3) 237 x 160 mm, (4) 243/244 x 160 mm, (5) 242 x 155 mm, (6) 245 x 155 mm, (7) 245 x 155 mm, (8) 235/240 x 160 mm

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Missal
    • Content Description

      'Three blocks of text remain: (i) f. I, vigil of Epiphany and Epiphany;  (ii) ff. 2-4, first to fourth Sundays after the octave of Epiphany; (iii) ff. 5-8, Easter Eve.

      (iii) runs from the adjuration 'audi maledicte' to the lection 'In principio creauit' and includes most of the litany, which here comes after the order of making catechumens.' (Ker, p. 840).
    • 1r

Host Volume

Remarks

Removed from Exeter, Cathedral Library D&C MS 3779. See also FMS/3.

Bibliography

  • N.R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. Vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977), pp. 340.
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