Oxford, Bodleian, Lyell 30
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Oxford
Repository: Bodleian
Idno:Lyell 30
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Date and Language
Date:s. xvmed
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 392 289, LP 4286 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 238).
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Contents
A private collection of prayers and devotions in Latin and English copied by [J.] Graseley and completed by him in 1441. This is a mainly Latin collection and only the English texts have been listed here. For a full list of contents see de la Mare 1971, pp. 61-74, 364-400.

Item: 1
Locus:f. 15v
Title:Prayer
Incipit:'Ihesu crist my soule leche that didest on the rode tree'.
Explicit:'when thow suffredest deth for me'.
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Item: 2
Locus:ff. 18v-19r
Title:Prayer before Mass
Incipit:'O benyng ihesu that woldest suffre so mony grevous peynis and deth for love of mankynde grete and mervelus is youre charite o gode lord god for that hie charite that ye wolde foichesaff with youre precious blod to wasshe awey al oure synnys i pray you gracyous lord that ye foryeve me al the synnys'.
Explicit:'...make me now at this tyme worthely to receyve this sacrament that is youre precious body that i may endlesly leven with you in youre presens and seen youre gracious face euer to ioyen in youre godnes in blys allwey lastyng amen'.
Rubric:'This preyor flolowyng [sic] in englyssh shal be sayde afore masse or ellis afore the receyvyng of the holy sacrament'.
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Item: 3
Locus:f. 35r-v
Title:Explanation of the eight verses of St. Bernard (IPMEP 723.5)
Incipit:'These viij versis folowyng buth gode to be saide anoon aftur masse or ellis at heryng of a masse for me redith in the lyff of seynt bernard'.
Explicit:' and wolde not that he dude so meche good and then he tolde to hym these viii versis folowyng'.
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Item: 4
Locus:f. 36r-v
Title:Prayer to be said after Mass
Incipit:'O thanked be ye holy fadur myghtful god that voychedist saff of youre speciall grace to sende youre only sone fro youre hie throne into the valey of woo and teris and here to take oure kynde and in that kynde suffredist sharpe peynes and byttir deth to brynge oure sovlus to youre kyndom and that precyous body'.
Explicit:'...thre persouns and on gold glorie and laude be offeryd to yow with all reuerens of all creatures withouten ende amen'.
Rubric:'This preyor folowyng in englyssh shal be sayde aftur masse'.
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Item: 5
Locus:ff. 41v-43r
Title:English rubric to the (Latin) Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget (IPMEP 17)
Incipit:'A woman solitari and recluse covetyng to knowe cristis woundus hou mony he suffrid for mankynde ofte preied god of his special grace that he wolde schewen hem to hure at the last oure lord spak to hure and sayde say vche day in the yere xv pater noster'.
Explicit:'...peynis wherfore vche lerned man i consell say these orisons for my bittur passion for his owne helthe and endless mercy'.
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Item: 6
Locus:f. 49v
Title:English rubric to Bede's prayer to the seven words from the cross (IPMEP 738.5)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'This is a devout preyor of that holy prest bede of the vij wordus of our lord ihesu crist when he henge on the cros and whoseuer seith this preyor folowyng euery day knelyng on his knees...shall not dye without confession and xxx dayes afore his deth he shall seen oure lady aperyng to hym'.
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Item: 7
Locus:f. 51r-v
Title:English rubric to the prayer 'Gratias tibi ago domine' (IPMEP 837.5)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'Whosoeuer seith this orison euery day ther is granted to hym yef he be in the state of euerlastyng dampnacion...ioy to all thilke that sayn this orison xx dayes contynewyng ther is graunted to hem playn remission as hit is wretyn at rome in the mynstur of seynt petur vndur a bulle of led'.
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Item: 8
Locus:ff. 62v-65v
Title:Prayer to the Trinity (IMEV 790.5)
Incipit:'Fader sone and holy goost lord to the i make my mone'.
Explicit:'On the to see that comely syght fadir and sone and holy goost. Amen'.
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Item: 9
Locus:f. 90r-v
Title:Prayer
Incipit:'In the name of the fadir and the sone and the holy gost amen i betake me nomen to god kyng almyghti by that selue blessyng by the wheche god betok his modur to seynt iohan i betake me nomen to god by that grace of the holy goost that apperid to his fadir when he sholde goon vp to his fadir'.
Explicit:'...in any maner wyse i betake me nomen to the holy ryght hond of god the wheche saue me and defende me body and soule so that i may repayre ayeyne saff and sound with gladnes and ioy in the name of the fadir and the sone and the holy goost amen'.
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Item: 10
Locus:ff. 92r-93r
Title:Item alia oracio in anglicis verbis contra latrones.
Incipit:'The holy cros be afore me the blessyng of god be aftur me of thilke blessyng be i blessed that god blessed with the thre kyngys'.
Explicit:'...i beseche all the holy apostelus martires confessorus virgines and wydowes by all the vertues of heuen žat noon of myn enemyes haue pover to mysdo me in any kynde wheche graunt me the holy trinite fadur sone and holy goost amen'.
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Item: 11
Locus:ff. 142r-143r
Title:Prayer to the Virgin (IMEV 2119)
Incipit:'Mary moder well thou be'.
Explicit:'In heven for to have a place. Amen'.
Note:Two fragments of the full poem.
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Item: 12
Locus:ff. 176r-177v
Title:The Five Joys of the Virgin (IMEV suppl. 2478.8)
Incipit:'O lady sterre of iacob glorie of israel'.
Explicit:'Ayeyne goosty enemyes to stonde in assurauns. Fiat. Amen'.
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Item: 13
Locus:f. 285v
Title:Prayer to Jesus (IMEV suppl. 1700.5)
Incipit:'Ihesu for thi blysfull blod bring thoo soulus into thy blys'.
Explicit:'And spare that thei have doon amys'.
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Item: 14
Locus:f. 300v
Title:Prayer at the Elevation (IMEV 1729)
Incipit:'Ihesu lord wel come ye be'.
Explicit:'Houfull be my last bred. Fiat. Amen'.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:150 x 85 mm
Collation:16 (includes ff. viii-ix), 2-616, 712, 816, 96(3 and 5 canc.), 10-1216, 1314, 1416, 158, 1612 (+ 2 leaves inserted after 9), 17-1916, 2012, 2116(5-6 canc., + 1 flyleaf) added at end. Quire signatures and catchwords.
Layout:Pricking: not visible. Writing space: 77 x 45 mm; top margin 20 mm; bottom margin 50 mm; right margin 30 mm; left margin 10 mm. Single columns with 20 lines. Ruling: drypoint - barely visible.
Writing: One scribe, [J.] Graseley, writing in an Anglicana script with Secretary features. Characteristics: double compartment a; hooked ascenders on h, and l; long s in medial position; Body height: 1 mm (see de la Mare, Plate IVa (ff. 299v-300); Watson 1984. Plate 400 (f. 202).
Decoration: In red: initials, headings, rubrics, some catchwords, some tinted letters, initials in text.
Binding:Early eighteenth century. Size 150 x 90 mm. Cover of sprinkled calf with a space between the blind panels reserved.
Foliation:ff. ix + 315 (f. 219 is double; f. i-ix, 301-314 are flyleaves). The first three flyleaves are paper, ff. iv-ix are parchment and ff. 302-313 are paper. Ff. vii-viii contain texts by the same scribe that have been crossed out.
Additions:
Condition:Good
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History
Origin:
Provenance:On f. ix verso is the partly erased note: 'Graunte(?)' (sixteenth-century hand?). F. 215v - at the end of the folio the scribe left a gap of 3 lines, and then wrote 'Deo gracias. quod G'. F. 258r - after one line left blank is written, 'Deo gracias. Quod Graseley'. F. 285v - at end of prayers - 'Amen. quod G.' After this a line is left blank, then follows an English text, after which is 'Quod. I. G. V. O. S. E. H.' F. 300r - after a space of two lines is written 'Deo gracias quod Graseley. Completus fuit iste liber Ao. Domini Millesimo. ccccmo. xljo'. From this evidence it is apparent that the initial owner and scribe was one . Later in the library of the Mercer Henderson family at Fordell House, Inverkeithing, co. Fife; inherited by the 8th Earl of Buckinghamshire and sold by him at Hodgson's, 30th March 1944, lot 233. Bought by Lyell from Maggs Bros. in April 1944.
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, 2005.
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Related Manuscripts Textual London, British Library, MS Additional 37787 shares a good number of the Latin texts many of which are copied in the same order.
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