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MS. Buchanan b. 1

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Gradual (temporale, local use)

Temporale (fol. 11); Kyriale (fol. 107v); Mass of the Holy Name (fol. 127); additional Credo for 2 voices (fol. 129v). Many masses with a prose. On the verso of the first fly leaf a contemporary hand added the order of: Die mÿsse van den vrede.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 133 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 383 × 270 mm.
Foliation: Original foliation of Roman figures in the right top corner of the rectos

Layout

1 col., 10 lines of script and 10 staves of music, with some variation; written space 265–70 × 175 mm.

Hand(s)

Gothic textualis.

Musical Notation:

Gothic notation on 10 staves of 4 black lines

Decoration

Illuminated initial, coloured border and initials, rubrics.

Binding

Original boards covered with leather, 18th century.

History

Origin: Netherlands ; 1545

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 1, on scroll in border, ‘V.D. frater Theodricus de Verle Me fecit. Anno 1545.’

Rt. Hon. T. R. Buchanan (1846–1911).

His widow, Mrs. E. O. Buchanan.

Given by her to the Bodleian in 1941.

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2019) from the following sources:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 137
S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 98 [contents, foliation, music]

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-08-14: First online publication.