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and climbing among conventional foliage. The ground is
partly violet dotted with red and partly red.
There is a change of hand about f. 40.
The Nocturnes have large initials. The first only has purple
and violet.
f. 30 A 49, 65, 83 b, 108 b, 129 (green), 150 (red and blue).
At 172 the hand changes to a more regular one with longer
lines, and the gloss is at first in a wonderful minute hand.
The Psalter ends 182 b. The Cantica follow, unglossed.
The order is : Confitebor. Ego dixi. Exultauit. Cantemus.
Domine audiui. Audite celi. Benedicite. Quicunque. Te
Deum. Benedictus. Magnificat.
{I 1? 2
fol. 51
Vellum, io| x 7|, ff. I + 192, 30 lines to a page. Cent, xiv (cir.
1340), very well written; charter-type of hand.
Calf binding.
Collation: 1 flyleaf i8 28 (7 canc.) 38~78 (one canc.) 88 96 io4
118-258.
From Peterborough Abbey, as will appear. It is the first part
of a Consuetudinary of which 198 b is the third part. The script
and appearance of the two books is very similar, but they are by
different scribes.
On 1 b is a rubric with a rule for finding movable feasts : rather
faint at the beginning. There is another copy of it in 198 b
at the foot of the first page of the Kalendar. Post primam
primam sequentem epiphaniam computa - X- dies etc.
Kalendar, in red and black, identical with that in 198 b which
see (but not in the same hand); and with the same notes of
benefactors, anniversaries, etc. ... . . . f. 2
Followed by a Rule for Easter, 8 a (as in 198 b). 8 b blank.
Proper of Time (to Easter) headed by three lines in red and
black ........... 9
Hec ascribenda Symoni sunt scripta legenda
Ex yarwel natus fuerat monacus memoratus
De solitis rebus speculum nitet hie quasi phebus
In quo consuetas elucidat ipse dietas.
Sabbato primo aduentus domini. Ad vesperas super ps. Ant.
Regnum tuum
On the lower margin of 42 a is a line of music, and other tags
occur elsewhere. There are occasional additions of rules
made by particular Abbots.
On f. 65 : Inc. prima declaracio historic Domine ne in ira.
and climbing among conventional foliage. The ground is
partly violet dotted with red and partly red.
There is a change of hand about f. 40.
The Nocturnes have large initials. The first only has purple
and violet.
f. 30 A 49, 65, 83 b, 108 b, 129 (green), 150 (red and blue).
At 172 the hand changes to a more regular one with longer
lines, and the gloss is at first in a wonderful minute hand.
The Psalter ends 182 b. The Cantica follow, unglossed.
The order is : Confitebor. Ego dixi. Exultauit. Cantemus.
Domine audiui. Audite celi. Benedicite. Quicunque. Te
Deum. Benedictus. Magnificat.
{I 1? 2
fol. 51
Vellum, io| x 7|, ff. I + 192, 30 lines to a page. Cent, xiv (cir.
1340), very well written; charter-type of hand.
Calf binding.
Collation: 1 flyleaf i8 28 (7 canc.) 38~78 (one canc.) 88 96 io4
118-258.
From Peterborough Abbey, as will appear. It is the first part
of a Consuetudinary of which 198 b is the third part. The script
and appearance of the two books is very similar, but they are by
different scribes.
On 1 b is a rubric with a rule for finding movable feasts : rather
faint at the beginning. There is another copy of it in 198 b
at the foot of the first page of the Kalendar. Post primam
primam sequentem epiphaniam computa - X- dies etc.
Kalendar, in red and black, identical with that in 198 b which
see (but not in the same hand); and with the same notes of
benefactors, anniversaries, etc. ... . . . f. 2
Followed by a Rule for Easter, 8 a (as in 198 b). 8 b blank.
Proper of Time (to Easter) headed by three lines in red and
black ........... 9
Hec ascribenda Symoni sunt scripta legenda
Ex yarwel natus fuerat monacus memoratus
De solitis rebus speculum nitet hie quasi phebus
In quo consuetas elucidat ipse dietas.
Sabbato primo aduentus domini. Ad vesperas super ps. Ant.
Regnum tuum
On the lower margin of 42 a is a line of music, and other tags
occur elsewhere. There are occasional additions of rules
made by particular Abbots.
On f. 65 : Inc. prima declaracio historic Domine ne in ira.