Fragmenta Manuscripta 001: Lectionary for the office
Information About This Item
Title
Fragmenta Manuscripta 001: Lectionary for the office
Date
950-1000 (In England by c. 975-1000)
Description
Explicit: In tribus noctibus ante pascha domini leguntur tres primae lectiones in una quaque nocte declamationes Hierimie prophetae
Contents: Contains part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, chapter 3 to end. Slight variants from the Vulgate text.
Script: Caroline minuscule
Condition: Patched hole, some stains. Slight cropping on sides; some letters missing r & l recto; text seems intact, r & l verso.
Is Referenced By
M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990): 434-75.
Christopher De Hamel, "Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from the library of Sir Sydney Cockerell," British Library Journal 13, no. 2 (Autumn 1987): 186-210, at 203 [no. 69]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42554262.pdf
Linda Ersam Voigts, “A Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscript at the University of Missouri.” Anglo-Saxon England 17 (1988): 83–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44510839.
France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Ruth Morgan. Eds. Gillian Jondorf and David N. Dumville (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1991), 43-44.
Richard Marsden, The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 47.
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. 809.8].
Christopher De Hamel, "Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from the library of Sir Sydney Cockerell," British Library Journal 13, no. 2 (Autumn 1987): 186-210, at 203 [no. 69]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42554262.pdf
Linda Ersam Voigts, “A Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscript at the University of Missouri.” Anglo-Saxon England 17 (1988): 83–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44510839.
France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Ruth Morgan. Eds. Gillian Jondorf and David N. Dumville (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1991), 43-44.
Richard Marsden, The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 47.
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. 809.8].
- See also entry 809.8 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/809.8.
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 001
Provenance
In England by c. 975-1000.
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 - 245 x 205 mm - 29 lines (visible) in two columns with text cut away top and bottom.
Language
Latin
Type
manuscript fragment
Medium
parchment
Coverage
Brittany, France?