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Processional : use of Sarum
Uniform Title
Processional.
Title
Processional : use of Sarum.
Created
England, [between 1400 and 1425]
Physical Description
2 leaves + 130 leaves : parchment ; 170 mm x 118 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Ownership inscription for the parish church of St. Mary, Redgrave, Suffolk: "Iste liber constat de Redgrave" in a fifteenth-century hand.
Anathema in Middle English verse on the verso of the second flyleaf: "This bok is on and goddys crus ys anodur/He that stel the ton mot haue the todyr" in a fifteenth-century hand.
Numerous other early ownership inscriptions and pen trials on front flyleaves.
Annotation on verso of nineteenth-century endpaper, in pencil, identifying the text as a "Sarum Processional," dated 1847.
Layout: single columns, mostly of 23 lines.
Script: gothic script.
Decoration: musical notation on 4-line staves, red and blue penwork initials, rubrics, and blue paragraph marks. Numerous initials in brown ink, some decorated with faces and grotesques.
Binding: nineteenth-century black morocco, gilt; marbled endpapers. JHS monogram framing cross centered on both covers. Title in gilt on black leather tag on spine.
In Latin; ownership inscription and anathema in Middle English.
Provenance
Ex libris W. J. Birkbeck. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, of a processional according to the use of Sarum. The manuscript, which is apparently lacking two gatherings and includes fourteen later additions, features extensive musical notation on 4-line staves.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 12, 2014
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Processional, Use of Sarum. (Takamiya MS 103). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary, Yale University.
Cite as
Processional, Use of Sarum. (Takamiya MS 103). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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