Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Eccl. Top 4
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Oxford
Repository: Bodleian Library
Idno:Gough Eccl. Top 4
AltName:SC 17680
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Date and Language
Date:s. xvmed
Language: English
Dialect:Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-97v, ff. 104r-106r) - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 413 348, LP 193 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Scribe 2 (ff. 98r-103r) - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 409 345, LP 717 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 238). Scribe 3 - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe 4 (f. 103v lines 8-11) - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239).
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Contents
A mid fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial.

Item: 1
Locus:ff. 1r-164r
Title:Festial (IPMEP 734)
Incipit:'Hic incipit liber qui vocatur festiuale'.'Good men & woymen this day as ?e knowen well ys cleped sonenday yn the aduent'.
Explicit:'Explicit liber festiuale'.
Rubric:'God maker of all şyng be at our begynnyng and ?if vs his blessyng and bryng vs all to a good endyng amen'.
Note:Prayer [rubric] prior to the Festial in red. Festial includes the verse 'On the Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin in Heaven' beginning 'Be gladde and blythe quene of blysse' (IMEV 462).
Bibliography:Erbe 1905.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment with paper flyleaves. Many leaves very thick and dark with suede-like texture.
Extent:220 x 150 mm
Collation: Catchwords: ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 66v, 74v, 82v, 90v, 121v, 129v, 137v, 147v, 155v.
Layout:Pricking marks - round holes. Writing space of 165 x c. 100 mm. Single columns with 31-34 lines. Frame and lines ruled in hardpoint.
Writing: Scribe 1 (main scribe (ff. 1r-97v, ff. 104r, line 8-164r)) working in an Anglicana script. Characteristics: small, clear hand; long s in medial position; sigma s in final position with vertical end stroke; minimal hairlines; 8-shaped g with diamond-shaped bowls; B-shaped w with first stroke detached; descender of y slopes slightly to the left. Body height - 1.5-2 mm (Erbe 1905 - facsimile of f. 78v). Scribe 2 (ff. 98-104r, line 7): Characteristics: detached strokes; less rounded script than Scribe 1; sigma s in final position; long s in medial position; 2-shaped r in medial position; single compartment g; descender of y loops to the right. Body height: 2mm.
Decoration: In red: intials, titles and headings except for the first one, 'Advent Sonday' (brown), rubrication throughout. Red paraphs throughout. F. 1r: initial G of 'Gode' - blue with red flourishing. Other first letters are red. Nota bene: hand - ff. 60r, 97v.
Binding: Not medieval. Size: 230 x 155 mm. Covered in brown suede mitred and pasted onto pasteboard. Sewing unascertainable. Four raised bands across the spine. Decorated front and back with a central rectangle with kite shapes at corners. Tooled in blind.
Foliation:i + 164 + i. 'modern' ink - eighteenth/nineteenth century?
Additions:f. 164v - recipe?
Condition:From ff. 99v-114r leaves rubbed in places.
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History
Provenance: : f. 164r 'Tho: Martin of Palgrave in Suffolk', also signs his name on inside front cover 'Tho. Martin' and f. 1r 'Tho. Martin'. : F. 164v, top, 'Liber iste attenet Henryco Bonner Rycmanswort Manente' (c. 1500).
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003.
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Bibliography
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