Fragmenta Manuscripta 003: Sacramentary
Information About This Item
Title
Fragmenta Manuscripta 003: Sacramentary
Date
1000-1015 (dating by E.A. Lowe), s. x - xi (Gneuss-Lapidge); 925-975 CE (Hartzell 2019)
Description
Script: English Caroline minuscule (Bishop Style II); rustic capitals in headings
Condition: Evidence of cropping on all sides. Silver rubrics (oxidized); writing violates grid (? X 120).
Ruling instrument: Dry point; 2 rules for each line (tops and bottoms of letters excluding ascenders and descenders), 2 mm apart
Ruling instrument: Dry point; 2 rules for each line (tops and bottoms of letters excluding ascenders and descenders), 2 mm apart
Used as a pastedown at some point (Hartzell, 2019: 260)
Table Of Contents
According to K.D. Hartzell (2019, p. 260): "Contains part of the mass for the third Sunday after the Octave of Pentecost, the masses for the fourth and fifth Sundays, and the beginning of the mass for the sixth Sunday."
The masses follow the model of the Hadrianum Sacramentary. Includes tables of incipits with the first words of the chants that are performed at each mass. (Hartzell, 219: 260)
The masses follow the model of the Hadrianum Sacramentary. Includes tables of incipits with the first words of the chants that are performed at each mass. (Hartzell, 219: 260)
Is Referenced By
M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990): 434-75.
William Stoneman, "'Writ in ancient character and of no further use': Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in American Collections." Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture: Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997), 99-109.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), 580 [no. 810].
William Stoneman, "'Writ in ancient character and of no further use': Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in American Collections." Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture: Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997), 99-109.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), 580 [no. 810].
- See also entry 810 in Electronic Gneuss-Lapidge, CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo Saxon Poetry. University of Oxford. https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/db-latest/apmo/entry/810.
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 003
Source
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta003_45
Provenance
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Format
f. 1r-v - Not bound. Parchment - 208 x 145 mm - 21 lines (visible), one column.
Language
Latin.
Type
manuscript fragment
Coverage
England