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Manuscripts, Latin

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Latin.

Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:

Fragment of a missal, 12th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 211/XXIV
Scope and Contents Leaf from a noted Missal, containing (on f. 1r) the Epistle Non cessamus, Gospel Loquente jhesu ad turbas ecce princeps units accessit, Secret Sacrificiis qs. dne. intende placatus ut et devotion nostre proficiat et saluti, Postcom. Qs. ops. ds. ut illius salutaris capianius effectiun, cujus per hec wisteria pignus accepimus. Per fra. Adromanos [23rd Sunday]. Ferial Epistle ...
Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a missal, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XXIX
Scope and Contents Noted Missal of a central European or possibly Scandinavian Use, containing part of the Sanctorale, from the Introit of the Vigil of the Assumption of Virgin Mary to the Secret of the Octave of Saint Laurence. The Choir parts are noted, as neumes. F. 1r begins with the Choir part, Salves sancta parens. The textual line starts on f. 1r with the Collect, Deus qui virginalem aulem. On f. 1v, the fragment ends on the Secret, ...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a missal, possibly English, 12th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XXI
Scope and Contents Fragments of a noted Missal, containing part of the Temporale from the middle of the Gospel of Wednesday in the third week after Easter to the end of the Epistle of the Mass Cantate of 4th Sunday after Easter. The text is very cropped, and the first line on f. 1r is XCVI. eterna est. The final fragmentary line on f. 1v is [...]lius uita. As far as is identifiable of the text, it appears to be...
Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a missal, possibly French, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XIV
Scope and Contents A cropped leaf of a Missal, probably Cluniac. It contains the Proper for the following saints: Eucherius (16 Nov.), Anianus and Gregory (17 Nov.), Odo, Abbot of Cluny (19 Nov.), Edmund K.M. (20 Nov)., Columbanus (21 Nov.), Cecilia (22 Nov.). The inclusion of St Edmund suggests an origin of East Anglia, but the hand seems to be French. There are coloured initials, in red and blue, and some rubrication. The leaf is quite damaged in places, especially along the inner edge (orientated from f....
Dates: 14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a music manuscript, undated

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Identifier: MS 211/XXXIX
Scope and Contents

Music manuscript: plainsong, neumes on 4 lines. Most of the side which constituted the outer of the book wrapper is too dirty to read. On the other side the text include the responsory for Matins in the second Sunday after Easter: [Response] In diademate capitis Aaron lapides pretiosi fulgebant, dum perficeretur opus Dei, alleluia alleuia alleluia. [Versus 1] Corona aurea super caput eius expressa signo sanctitatis.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of an English antiphoner, c. 1430

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Identifier: MS 211/XII
Scope and Contents

Lower half of a page from an Antiphoner from Southern England, with very fine illumination. Probably of the Sarum Use, it contains part of Lauds, Sext (iii is an error for vi), None, and Second Evensong of the Common of Apostles. The page is held together vertically,with 2 sides mounted to a long strip of paper attached to the verso side.

Dates: c. 1430
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of an English collectar, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 211/VIII
Scope and Contents

Collectar (contains the prayers - collects - for the canonical hours of the Office), apparently following the Use of Sarum. It contains part of the Sanctorale from the Collect of Lady Day (25th March) to the Chapter at 1st Vesper of SS. Philip and James (1 May), including the Proper of SS. Richard, Ambrose, Tyburcius and Companions, Alphege, George, Mark and Vitalis.

Dates: 14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of an English Grail, 12th century

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Identifier: MS 211/VI
Scope and Contents One leaf of an English 12th century Grail. Contains the end of the Communion of Friday after Ash Wednesday, and then the service until the beginning of the Tract on the first Sunday in Lent. A modern hand has taken extensive notes in the margins and bottom of f. 1r. Illumination The contents are common to most Latin rites except the Psalm Domine, refugium factus es, which is found in the Missals of Durham and St. Albans, and is substituted...
Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of an English Grail, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XIII
Scope and Contents

A fragment (top right-hand corner?) from a leaf of a Grail, apparently of Sarum Use. Contains parts of two Grails and three Alleluias with their Verses, from the Common of Many Martyrs, as in the standard Sarum Use.

Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of an English Grail (Sarum), 14th century

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Identifier: MS 211/IX
Scope and Contents

Sarum Grail, containing part of the Temporale from near the beginning of the Sequence Dic nobis quibus of Thursday after Easter, to Alleluia of Saturday after Easter (including the greater part of the Sequence Victime paschali). Later hand annotations on the upper margin of f. 1r. Folio 2 is incomplete. A slip in the folder says: 'Primitive mensural notation in the sequence (The Longa has the double value of the Brevis but this usage is not consistent)'.

Dates: 14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments