Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    bishop [16 Nov.], “In redeundo [dicitur antiphona] de S. Maria. Secundum Sarum hoc modo fiat de S. Eadmundo.” f. 329. 8. Commune sanctorum, f. 338. At the end (ff. 354 b-357 b) is added in a later hand (with the initials not filled in) the Service for the F. of the Transfiguration, 6 Aug. 9. Ordinale. f. 358. This article is in a different hand, and did not originally form part of the same volume as the rest. The illuminated border round the first page also differs in style. In the initial letter are the arms az. a bend or, a label of three points arg., being those of Scrope of Masham. In the central point of the label is an indistinct charge, gules. These arms perhaps refer to Eichard Scrope (3rd son of Henry, 1st Lord Scrope of Masham), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1386-1398, Archbishop of York 1398-1405. In a rubric on p. 377 b is a mention of the year 1383 as future (“ quod erit anno dni. m°ccc°lxxxiii“ ”). Fine vellum; ff. 395. Artt. 1-8 were written between 1322 (cf. art. 3) and 1325, John Salmon, the last Bishop of Norwich mentioned in art. 3, having died in the latter year. Art. 9 must have been written before 1383 (see above). The missing leaves were presumably cut out for the sake of the illuminations. Elaborately executed initials in gold and colours, often enclosing miniatures, at all the large divisions of the offices (see especially ff. 16 b, 23 b, 109, 150 b), with coloured initials (red and blue) at the smaller divisions, the initials being in all cases extended so as to form marginal ornamentations for every column. In the margin of f. 68 is a curious grotesque drawing. On f. 164 (a leaf left blank after the calendar) is a note, extracted from the enrolments of Mich, term, 18 Edw. III. [1344], of a receipt given by Philip de Mounde- ville .and Walter his brother to William de Cusance [Cusans], Treasurer of England, for 100 pounds sterling due on a bond, at London, 18 July, 1343, and acknowledged by the said Philip in Court, 5 Dec. [1344]. On f. 375 b is a recipe for making ink, in a 15th-cent. hand, with another, dated 28 Dec. 1626, in Sir E. Twysden’s hand. Small Folio. 13. Manual, with musical notes; entitled (in a later hand) “ Eituale secundum usum Sarum.” The contents are:—(1) Benedictio sails et aquae, f. 1 ;—(2) “ Ordo ad cathecuminum faciendum.” f. 5 ;—(3) Eitus baptizandi. f. 19 ;—(4) “ Ordo ad purificandum mulierem post partum.” f. 24b;—(5) “Ordo ad faciendum sponsalia.” f. 25 b ;—(6) “ Ordo ad servicium peregrinorum.” f. 36 b;—(7) “ Ordo ad visitandum infirmos.” After the end of this office as given in Maskell’s Monumenta Bitualia (vol. i. p. 99) some additional matter is appended (ff. 47 b, 48), including