[Manual of the Sarum Rite].
Roman Catholic Church
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1450
Materials
Measurements
249 x 174 x 80 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Coughton Court, Warwickshire
NT 3082282
Summary
Manuscript. Contents: (A) fols. 1r-6v: detailed Latin Sarum Calendar with some English elements, with some elements possibly suggesting a Canterbury origin? Calendar suggests date of 1445-1456. (B) Manual of the Sarum Rite [see full description]. Decoration: (1) Full page miniature: fol. 83v. intensely worked image of the Crucifixion; thick frame in quarters, alternately graded shades of beige and blue, each containing twisted scrolls in the same colour; outer edge of frame outlined in a band of gold, in turn surrounded by a mixture of coloured acanthus leaves with black pen foliate forms and gold discs. (2) Major initials with borders: fol. 7r: letter 'O', 5-6ll high, gradated beige and white on a square gold ground with red beige and blue ananthus infill; scrolling acanthus leaves in same palatte; fol. 84r: letter 'T' as above. (3) Other major initials: Calendar: 4 ll high, gold on gorunds of dark pink and blue with white highlighting, and black outline extending into hairline sprays; fol. 130v: 5ll high, gold on quartered ground of blue and pink with white highlighting, three foliate sprays in black ink emerging from letter. (4) Minor initials: throughout. Fols. 1r-6v: written space: 165x120mm, ruled 34 lines in black ink, pricking still visible; fols. 7r-198v: written space: 155x105mm, ruled 26 lines in brown ink; fols. 7r-13r long lines, thereafter in two columns. Musical stave of four lines takes up two lines of text ruling. Hands: (1) fols. 1r-6v (Calendar): Gothic bookhand with some anglicana features, more prominent in English additions, red and black ink. (2) fols. 7r-198v, except fols. 139v-140r: competent semi-quadrata hand with fine oblique seriphs and barbed ascenders on some letters; (3) fols. 139v-140r: lighter ink and more formal quadrata aspect than (2). Extensive rubrication throughout ms. Music: fols. 125r-126v, 127r, 128r: staves and text supplied but no neumes
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: calf vellumInk/Pigment: Text in black-brown ink with initials in red and blue with pen-work decoration. Calendar initials in gold leaf over gesso, decorated with blue, white and brown pigment. Painted border in blue and shades of brown, with gold leaf over gesso. Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supportsDate of Binding: Contemporary and mid 18th centuryBinder's Name: English End Leaves: sewn 3-leaf outside-hook endleaves, stubs and outermost leaf pasted to the boardStructure: English Edges: plain cut Spine Lining: Near flat, quadrant joints End Bands: Primary sewing worked in plain thread with no front bead over alum tawed cores, slips laced into boards. Remains of secondary sewing in coloured silk incorporating orignal alum-tawed skin covering Bookmark: noneBoards: 9mm oak wood boards, with heavy external perimeter cushion taken right down the inner edge, internal bevel on spine edge. There is a large round hole (18mm diameter) drilled slightly above centre in back board Covering: 18th century quarter tanned brown calf with dutch combed marbled paper on the sides. Tooling Spine: none apart from gold-tooled red tanned goatskin lettering piece in panel 2Tooling Sides: NoneFurniture: A pair of strap recesses on the foredge of the front board, which retain the stubs of the straps, and a central strap recess on foredge of front board, now empty. Tangs of two copper alloy sidepins showing through back pastedown, relating to the pair of straps on the front board. It is difficult to say whether the single or double clasps were the earlierEnclosure: Binding Notes: Display height in present perspex cradle 95mm.
Bibliographic description
198 leaves . 240x165mm.. Provenance: Annotations: (1) fols. 1r, 48v-49r, 62v: pen trials in child's hand; (2) Calendar, June, fifteenth-century hand: Sancti petroci (Cornish); (3) fol. 35v: Ann Kirkham her hand and penn Amen 1698, fol. 37v: Ann. Ann Kirkham ffor; (4) fol. 49r, seventeenth-century hand: John Tucker his hand; (5) fol. 135r, seventeenth-century hand: Madam Adam Satt. Hood nere Totnes. Armorial bookplate: Sr. Robt. Throckmorton Bart.. Binding: Fifteenth-century wooden boards.
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