MS. Hatton 106
Summary Catalogue no.: 4055
Portable Secular Psalter with Antiphons; South Wales, with additions made in Hereford; 14th century, middle, and additions, 14th century, second half and 15th century
Contents
For fol. i, a lifted pastedown, see below.
Fols. ii and 1 are blank, apart from early modern and modern notes (see ‘Provenance’).
[item 1 occupies quire I]
Calendar, similar to Sarum, with 15th-century Dominican entries, laid out one month per page, written in red and black, graded up to 9 lessons, approximately half full. Includes Teilio of Wales (‘Sancti theliay’) in red (9 February). Anne (26 July) and Christopher (25 July) are added by the original (?) scribe. Fifteenth-century additions include Thomas Aquinas (7 March), Peter of Verona (29 April) and his translation (7 May), and Dominic (4 August). Ethelbert (19 May) is added in a 16thcentury (?) hand on fol. 4r. The feasts of Thomas Becket are erased. The months are headed by verses on the ‘Egyptian’ days, which largely correspond to Hennig’s (1955) sets I (June, October and November) and III (the rest).
[items 2–6 occupy quires II–XVIII]
Psalms [1]–150, imperfect at the beginning, starting at 2: 5 (‘suo conturbabit eos ...’), laid out as prose, without titles. The numbers of psalms 3–56 and 128–138 are added in Roman numerals in the margins in a late- or post-medieval hand. Punctuated throughout, with punctus elevatus used to mark metrum, and punctus used to mark the ends of verses. Punctus flexus is added to mark minor pauses in a medieval hand within the text and in the margins (by the hand responsible for marginal additions on fol. 20r (?), 15th century (?)). The psalms are in the biblical order, accompanied by antiphons, versicles, responses, etc. The subdivisions within the psalms are not indicated, apart from psalm 118, subdivided into eleven 16-verse units. There are textual divisions at psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 109, 118 and 119 (see ‘Decoration’). The text contains corrections in a contemporary hand, possibly by the main scribe (e.g. fols. 124r, 139v, 150v, etc.) and antiphons added in the margins in a late 15th-century hand (e.g. fol. 32r, 33r, 36r, 38v, 41r, etc.) with crosses indicating their position in the text.
Weekly canticles, without titles:
- (1) Confitebor tibi domine (Isaiah 12);
- (2) Ego dixi (Isaiah 38: 10–21);
- (3) Exultauit cor meum (1 Samuel 2: 1–11);
- (4) Cantemus domino (Exodus 15: 1–20);
- (5) Domine audiui (Habakkuk 3);
- (6) Audite celi (Deuteronomy 32: 1–44).
Daily canticles, prayers and creeds, without titles:
- (1) Te deum laudamus (fol. 172v);
- (2) Benedicite omnia opera (fol. 173v);
- (3) Benedictus dominus deus (fol. 174v);
- (4) Magnificat (fol. 175r);
- (5) Nunc dimittis (fol. 175v);
- (6) Athanasian Creed (Qvicumque uult ...) (fol. 176r).
Litanies for each day of the week, laid out in two columns. Teilio, Dubritius (relics at Llandaff Cathedral) and Oudoceus (bishop of Llandogo, in the diocese of Llandaff) are at the end of the list of confessors in ‘sabbato letania’ (fol. 186v). Teilio also appears in ‘feria quarta’ (fol. 184v). Thomas Becket (?) is erased at the beginning of the list of martyrs on fol. 184r. Collects, including the rare ‘Per horum omnium . . .’, follow the first litany (fols. 181v–183v):
- (1) Per horum omnium sanctorum angelorum archangelorum ...
- (2) Deus cui proprium est misereri semper et parcere suscipe ...
- (3) Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui facis mirabilia magna solus ... pontificem ...
- (4) Deus qui caritatis dona per gratiam sancti spiritus tuorum cordibus fidelium infundis ...
- (5) Deus a quo sancta desideria recta consilia et iusta sunt ...
- (6) Ineffabilem misericordiam tuam nobis quesumus domine clementer ostende ut simul nos ...
- (7) Fidelium deus omnium conditor et redemptor animabus famulorum famularumque tuarum remissionem ...
- (8) Pietate tua quesumus domine nostrorum solue uincula ...
[item 7 occupies quires XIX–XX]
Added, 14th century, second half (?), Office of the Dead, use of Hereford (cf. Frere and Brown, 1904–15, vol. II, pp. 42–5), with music (square notation on four red staves). Fol. 218 is ruled, but blank; erased text, three or four lines, on fol. 218r).
[item 8 occupies quire XXI]
Added, 14th century, second half (?), Commendation of the Souls (‘In commemoratione animarum’), use of Hereford (cf. Frere and Brown, 1904–15, vol. II, pp. 46–8), with musical notation (square notation on four red staves). Fols. 221–222 and 223–224 are misbound; the correct order is 220, 222, 221, 324, 223. Erased text on fol. 218r. Fols. 223, 225 and 226 are ruled but blank.
[item 9 occupies quires XXII–XXV]
Added, late 14th century or early 15th century, weekly (fol. 227r) and daily (fol. 238r) offices of the Virgin. References to Thomas of Hereford and Ethelbert in rubrics on fols. 228r, 239v, 242r–v, and to Catherine on fols. 239v and 242v. Fol. 248v is blank; fols. 249r–250v are parchment fly-leaves with pen trials and inscriptions in 16th-century hands (see ‘Provenance’).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled in ink with single vertical (double in the left margin after fol. 42) and single or double horizontal bounding lines, and a further set of double lines in the margins, all extending the full height and width of page. Written below the top line; 19 lines per page; written space: c. 105 × 62 mm. , but the scribe sometimes disregards the bounding lines, particularly in the Psalterium beatae Mariae
Hand(s)
Formal Gothic book hands, the work of several scribes; smaller script used for antiphons and invitatoria; black and brown ink.
Notation on staves.
Decoration
Blue KL monograms with red penwork in the calendar.
4- to 8-line blue and pink initials, on gold backgrounds (partially rubbed off), decorated with coiled tendrils and leaves, and borders, made of blue and pink bars with foliage at the beginnings of psalms 26 (fol. 30r), 38 (fol. 45r), 51 (fol. 60r), 52 (fol. 61r), 68 (fol. 76r), 80 (fol. 94v), 97 (fol. 111r), 109 (fol. 128r), 119 (fol. 143v) and Psalterium beatae Mariae (fol. 187r).
Major initials with borders, as above.
3-line blue initials with red penwork at the beginnings of psalm 118 (fol. 134r), the weekly canticles (fol. 163r) and the major parts of the Office of the Dead.
2-line blue initials with red penwork and penwork borders in the left margin at the beginnings of psalms, canticles, litany, prayers and parts of the Office of the Dead.
Guide-letters occasionally survive.
1-line alternating plain red and blue initials (with red penwork on fol. 8r) at the beginnings of verses and periods.
Penwork line-endings with geometric designs on fols. 8v–15v.
Rubrics in red ink.
Binding
Red leather over oak boards, early 15th century (?), Hereford (?). ‘106’ in white paint over ‘32’ (?) in ink on spine. One leather strap, detached, with a metal clasp (the second strap is now lost, only a fragment remains); two metal pins on the back cover and two catches (added). Sewn on five split tawed leather thongs; five raised bands on spine. Old Hatton no. ‘30’ on fore-edge.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Made for the use of the diocese of Llandaff: evidence of the calendar and litany.
In Hereford in the second half of the 14th (?) and in the 16th centuries: added offices for the use of Hereford; Ethelbert, patron saint of Hereford Cathedral, added to the calendar in a 16th-century hand.
Dominican priory in Hereford (?) (Knowles and Hadcock, 1971): 15th-century Dominican entries in the calendar; the addition of antiphons and punctuation.
‘mutuo hunc librum accepi’ and ‘. . . at ego emi’, 16th century (fol. 247v).
Partially torn off ownership inscription, 16th century (?), lower pastedown: ‘Iste lyber con⟨stat⟩ (?) . . . || churche h (?) . . .’. Pen trials (fol. 250v) and inscriptions on the lower pastedown (partly cut off), 16th century, possibly somewhat later: ‘He that stelyth this Boke ste . . . || Be hongyd Ap . . . || Qui librum fur . . . || Hunc liber s . . . || Benedictu . . .’ (the texts are a version of IMEV no. 1165 and of ‘Qui librum furat per collum pendere debet’, compare Durham, University Library MS. Cosin V. III. 22, fol. 18v).
John George: ‘sum Johannis Georgij Codex’, c. 1600, fol. ii verso.
Christopher, first Baron Hatton (bap. 1605, d. 1670), see ODNB.
Robert Scott, London bookseller (b. in or before 1632, d. 1709/10), see ODNB: purchased part of the library of Christopher Hatton.
Bodleian Library: bought in 1671 from Scott; came to the Library in September 1671 (see Summary catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, pp. 801–2). Earlier shelfmark: ‘Hatton (30)’; ‘Horae Beatae Virginis’ [sic] (fol. 2r).
MS. Hatton 106, fol. i (lifted pastedown)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Use of Hereford (?) (includes ‘Non sunt loquele’ for the third Nocturn (see Frere and Brown, 1904–15, vol. III, p. 125)).
Physical Description
English neums on a four-line stave (not in Hartzell, 2006).
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-04-08: Encode full description from Solopova catalogue.