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Breviary and Missal


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

Existence and location of originals:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Breviaries | Religious texts | Religious doctrines | Theology
Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Franciscan order | Religious communities | Religious institutions
Missals | Religious texts | Religious doctrines | Theology
Religious practice | Religious activities
Saints | Religious groups
Religion

Personal names
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1342/43-1400 | poet

Corporate names

Places