Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Eccl. Top 4
England |
Oxford |
Bodleian Library |
Gough Eccl. Top 4 |
SC 17680 |
s. xvmed |
English |
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). |
A mid fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's
Festial.
Item: 1ff. 1r-164r |
Festial (IPMEP 734) |
'Hic incipit liber qui vocatur festiuale'.'Good men & woymen this day as ?e knowen well ys cleped sonenday yn the aduent'. |
'Explicit liber festiuale'. |
'God maker of all şyng be at our begynnyng and ?if vs his blessyng and bryng vs all to a good endyng amen'. |
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). |
Erbe 1905.
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Codex |
Parchment with paper flyleaves. Many leaves very thick and dark with suede-like texture.
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220 x 150 mm |
Catchwords: ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 66v, 74v, 82v, 90v, 121v, 129v, 137v, 147v, 155v. |
Pricking marks - round holes. Writing space of 165 x c. 100 mm. Single columns with 31-34 lines. Frame and lines ruled in hardpoint. |
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.
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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.
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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.
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i + 164 + i. 'modern' ink - eighteenth/nineteenth century? |
f. 164v - recipe?
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From ff. 99v-114r leaves rubbed in places.
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Thomas Martin: 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). |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003.
- Dahood, R. 2000. Abbreviations, Otiose Strokes and Editorial Practice: The Case of Southwell Minster MS 7, in Smith, J. J. and S. Powell, ed, New Perspectives on Middle English Texts, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 141-49, p.148.
- Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall, London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 40, no. 524.
- Erbe, T., ed. 1905. Mirks Festial: A Collection of Homilies by Johannes Mirkus, John Mirk edited from Bodl. MS. Gough Eccl. Top. 4, with variant readings from other MSS, EETS, es, 96, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
- Fletcher, A. J. 1987. John Mirk and the Lollards, Medium Aevum, 56, 217-224.
- Long, M. M. 1955. Undetected Verse in Mirks Festial, Modern Language Notes, 70, 13-15.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Madan, F. 1897. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 181.
- Powell, S. 1991. John Mirks Festial and the Pastoral Programme, Leeds Studies in English, 22, 85-102.
- Spencer, H. L. 1993. English Preaching in Late Middle Ages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 311-316.
- Wakelin, M. F. 1967. The Manuscripts of John Mirks Festial, Leeds Studies in English, 1, 93-118, p. 104.