Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Belonged in the 18th cent, to the Ahhe Gamier, chaplain to the French factory at Lisbon. Bought by George Spencer Churchill, Marquis of Blandford [aft. Duke of Marlborough] in 1812. Bound in red morocco with gold tooling. Folio. 12. Breviarium, of Sarum use adapted to Norwich (see below). The contents are :— 1. Proprium de Tempore. Imperfect at the beginning, apparently a whole quire being lost. The first page begins near the end of the rubrics for the first week in Advent, followed by “ Feria ii.” f. 1. 2. Brief notes of English history, chiefly relating to the births and deaths of kings, from the death of Edward the Confessor [1066] to the coronation of Edward II. [25 Feb. 130f]. f. 155. 3. Brief notes of events, chiefly in ecclesiastical history, from 1064 to the execution of Thomas, Duke of Lancaster, 22 March [132J], entitled “ gesta tercie revolutionis sequentis tabule,” referring to the cycle described in the article which follows, and especially recording events connected with Norwich and the neighbouring dioceses, f. 156. 4. Table of the Paschal Cycle of 532 years, formed by multiplying together the solar cycle of 28 years and the lunar of 19 years, f. 157. 5. Calendar, f. 158. Among the entries are:—3 Mar. “ Sci. Wynewalei [Winwaloc] non Sarum ” ;—8 Mar. “ Sci. Felicis episcopi et confessoris non Sarum”;—17 June, “Sci. Botulphi abhatis non Sarum ” ;—22 July, “ Memoria de S. Wandregesillo abbate ” ;—5 Aug. “ Sci. Dominici conf. non Sarum ” ;—2 Oct. “Transl. S. Thome Herford. episcopi” [Thomas de Cantelupe, d. 1282, can. 1320];—4 Oct. “ Sci. Francisci conf. non Sarum ” ;— 3 Dec. “ Sci. Birini episcopi et conf. ix lectiones secundum Sarum.” 6. Psalter, Canticles, Litany (in two forms). Benedictions, etc. Imperf., wanting the first leaf, the text of Psalms I. and II. being supplied in an early 17th-cent. hand on the preceding page, f. 165. 7. Proprium sanctorum. Imperf, wanting the first leaf. f. 223. Among the references to Sarum use are :—F. of St. Oswald and of St. Dominic [5 Aug.], “ Tamen secundum Sarum nichil fiat de S. Dominico sed totum fiat de S. Oswaldo.” f. 290 ;—“ In octava S. Marie [15 Sept., as in the Calendar here] festum reliquiarum apud Sarum celehratur.” f. 299 b;—F. of St. Francis [4 Oct.], “ Euangelium de communi unius confessoris et pontificis cetera omnia de communi Sci. Francisci confessoris secundum Sarum de eo nichil fiat.” f. 308 b ;—F. of St. Edmund [of Pontigny], arch-