Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 431
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Oxford
Repository: Corpus Christi College
Idno:431
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Date and Language
Date:s. xiv2
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 378 187, LP 7010 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196).
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Contents
A mid to late fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary in one hand now in poor condition. The fragmentary leaves of the manuscript have now been remounted separately.

Item: 1.1
Locus:f. 1r
Title:South English Legendary: In principio (homily on John 1:1-14) (IMEV 276)
Incipit:'[A]mong oşer gospels hit tys no?t to byleue'.
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Item: 1.2
Locus:f. 2r
Title:South English Legendary: Prologue/Banna Sanctorum (IMEV 2304)
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Item: 1.3
Locus:f. 3r
Title:South English Legendary: Feast of the Circumcision (IMEV 4266)
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Item: 1.4
Locus:f. 3v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary (IMEV 2912)
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Item: 1.5
Locus:f. 3v
Title:South English Legendary: Epiphany (IMEV 3813)
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Item: 1.6
Locus:f. 4v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Wulstan (IMEV 3068)
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Item: 1.7
Locus:f. 7v
Title:South English Legendary: Lives of Saints Fabian and Sebastian (IMEV 2895)
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Item: 1.8
Locus:f. 8r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Agnes (IMEV 2850)
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Item: 1.9
Locus:f. 9v
Title:South English Legendary: Miracle of St. Agnes (IMEV 127)
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Item: 1.10
Locus:f.10r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Vincent (IMEV 3067)
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Item: 1.11
Locus:f.12r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian the Confessor (IMEV 2949)
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Item: 1.12
Locus:f.12v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian Hosteler (IMEV 2950)
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Item: 1.13
Locus:f.14v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Bridget (IMEV 2872)
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Item: 1.14
Locus:f. 17v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Blase (IMEV 2866)
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Item: 1.15
Locus:f. 20r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Agatha (IMEV 2839)
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Item: 1.16
Locus:f. 22r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Scholastica (IMEV 3052)
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Item: 1.17
Locus:f. 22v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Valentine (IMEV 3066)
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Item: 1.18
Locus:f.23r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Juliana (IMEV 2951)
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Item: 1.19
Locus:f.26r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Matthias (IMEV 3026)
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Item: 1.20
Locus:f.26v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Oswald the Bishop (IMEV 3035)
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Item: 1.21
Locus:f.27r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Chad (IMEV 2874)
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Item: 1.22
Locus:f.28v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Gregory (IMEV 2910)
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Item: 1.23
Locus:f.29v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Longinus (IMEV 2960)
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Item: 1.24
Locus:f.30r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Patrick (IMEV 3037)
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Item: 1.25
Locus:f.39r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Edward the Elder (IMEV 2889)
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Item: 1.26
Locus:f.42r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Cuthbert (IMEV 2880)
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Item: 1.27
Locus:f. f.43v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Benedict (IMEV 2860)
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:230 x 130 mm
Collation: All leaves are now mounted separately but Görlach (1974, p. 105) suggests: 112 (1, 3, 10 lost), 212, 312 (5-6 lost after f. 26), 412. Catchword, f. 43v.
Layout:Writing space: height - 175 mm. Single columns with 40-41 lines. Ruled in pencil.
Writing: One scribe throughout (also the rubricator) using Textura and Anglicana Formata, but closer to Textura. Görlach (1974, p. 105) describes the script as 'a heavy textura with 'bitings''. The text has thick strokes giving a chunky appearance. The ascenders never extend much below or above the level of writing. Characteristics: double compartment a with straight back and the two lobes resemble a reversed B; d with a rounded lobe which does not meet with the thick ascender slightly bending on the right; B-shaped w with an open bending backwards stroke from the bottom of the back of B; round-headed g; long and short r are used both in medial and final position; long and sigma s used regularly; dotted y; the stem of ş is slightly bent towards the left at 45 degrees, ending with a small tail and a shaft that does not extend past the stem/descender, it is used regularly in initial and final position, rounded head. Body height: 2.5 mm.
Decoration:F. 1r - space for eight-line capital. Red rubrics.
Binding: Manuscript rebound when the fragmentary leaves were mounted on parchment.
Foliation:ff. iv + 44 + ii
Additions:A list of fourteen names in a fifteenth-century hand, including Bowlond, is on f. iii. A list of twenty-six personal names in a fifteenth-century hand, including Wylyngham, is on f. ivv. The name of a field is written against each of them. In a fifteenth-century hand on f. 44r - directions for saying prayers, '...and as offt asse he seyş şis orisonys he schal haffe xld[...] pardon...'.
Condition:Poor. Single flyleaves now mounted on parchment and bound together. Complete text only on ff. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 16, 19, 24, 25, 28, 34, 39.
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History
Origin:Unknown
Provenance:Unknown
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003 and Orietta Da Rold, University of Birmingham, June 2005. Described with reference to Ker 1983.
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