MS. Gough Liturg. 16

Summary Catalogue no.: 18334

Office for the Dead, Use of Sarum (noted)

Deportatio ad ecclesiam (fol. 3); office of the dead (fol. 7) and commendation (fol. 61v); absolutions and funeral (fol. 77); rubrics and musical notation throughout. Additions: formulas for citation (fol. lv) and suspension (fol. 2); collects for the Deposition and Translation of St. Erkenwald (fol. 2), written by magister (John ?) Ledall, curate of the church of Byrcheanger (Essex, St. Mary’s ? 1518-46)

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 92v)

Added medical recipe in Middle English

Rubric: For burnyng heete in the ~~stomak~~\body/

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

2 + 89 + 1 leaves.

Dimensions (binding): 147 × 100 × 40 mm.

Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 95 mm.

Foliation: Later pencil foliation on top right of recto side (including endleaves).

Collation

1(8-2) (fols. 1-6; first leaf is pasted down, third leaf cancelled?); 2(8)–11(8) (fols. 7-86); 12(8-2) (fols. 87-91 including 89a, 89b; leaves 7 and 8 cancelled); 12(4-2) (fols. 92 and pastedown; leaves 1 and 2 cancelled, leaf 4 is pasted down)

Layout

18 long lines; ruled in ink; 76 × 49 mm.

Hand(s)

One scribe writing in Northern Textualis, in a dark brown ink.

Musical Notation:

Square notation on long staves of 4 red lines (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Blue initials flourished in red ink, 2-4 lines high.

Coloured initials in alternating red and blue ink of one line in height

Initials in the same ink as the text of two lines in height found on fol. 3r, 4v.

Additions: Six lines of text added to fol. 6v by a later hand in a more cursive script. In the same light-brown ink, a decorative flourish is added to a coloured initial at the top of the same page.

Binding

White leather on boards, contemporary.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Document (fol. 2r) referring to 'magister Ledell', rector of Birchanger, probably John Ledell B.C.L. (fl. c. 1508-1545): Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, 347.

William Herbert, 1718-1795; probably lot 902 in his sale, 21 Nov. 1798.

Richard Gough, 1735-1809

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the following sources:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 64

Summary Catalogue (1897)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 290

2025-06-12: Additional data collected by Emma Cameron and Blodwyn Hall-Jones as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 12th June 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 3rd July 2025.

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