IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 6
Held at: University College London
Title: Breviary and Missal
Date(s): 13th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 27 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Both manuscripts were probably written in England.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Thirteenth-century manuscript volume. The back bears the inscription: Fragment of 13th century lectionary. The volume comprises fragments of two different manuscripts: Breviarium (breviary, ff 1-18), written for Franciscan use and including hagiographical texts; Missale (missal, ff 19-27v). Very fine miniature depicting the Crucifixion on folio 19r, missing the left hand figure.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin. Gothic minuscule hands.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Parchment manuscript (very fine and thin) bound in half vellum and grey boards. Three hands. Rubricated throughout with red headings; red underlining; initials alternately red and blue. Folios 19r-27v mostly illegible. 14cm.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969), which summarises the contents of the manuscript; handlist at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
Sherry L Reames, 'A Recent Discovery concerning the Sources of Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale" ', Modern Philology, lxxxvii(4) (May 1990), which identifies the text on Saint Cecilia which appears in MS LAT 6 as a source for Chaucer.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2001