Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 431
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Oxford |
Corpus Christi College |
431 |
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s. xiv2 |
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Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 378 187, LP 7010 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196). |
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: 1.1f. 1r |
South English Legendary: In principio (homily on John 1:1-14) (IMEV 276) |
'[A]mong oşer gospels hit tys no?t to byleue'. |
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Item: 1.2f. 2r |
South English Legendary: Prologue/Banna Sanctorum (IMEV 2304) |
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Item: 1.3f. 3r |
South English Legendary: Feast of the Circumcision (IMEV 4266) |
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Item: 1.4f. 3v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary (IMEV 2912) |
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Item: 1.5f. 3v |
South English Legendary: Epiphany (IMEV 3813) |
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Item: 1.6f. 4v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Wulstan (IMEV 3068) |
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Item: 1.7f. 7v |
South English Legendary: Lives of Saints Fabian and Sebastian (IMEV 2895) |
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Item: 1.8f. 8r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Agnes (IMEV 2850) |
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Item: 1.9f. 9v |
South English Legendary: Miracle of St. Agnes (IMEV 127) |
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Item: 1.10f.10r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Vincent (IMEV 3067) |
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Item: 1.11f.12r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian the Confessor
(IMEV 2949) |
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Item: 1.12f.12v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian Hosteler (IMEV 2950) |
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Item: 1.13f.14v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Bridget (IMEV 2872) |
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Item: 1.14f. 17v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Blase (IMEV 2866) |
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Item: 1.15f. 20r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Agatha (IMEV 2839) |
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Item: 1.16f. 22r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Scholastica (IMEV 3052) |
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Item: 1.17f. 22v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Valentine (IMEV 3066) |
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Item: 1.18f.23r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Juliana (IMEV 2951) |
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Item: 1.19f.26r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Matthias (IMEV 3026) |
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Item: 1.20f.26v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Oswald the Bishop (IMEV 3035) |
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Item: 1.21f.27r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Chad (IMEV 2874) |
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Item: 1.22f.28v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Gregory (IMEV 2910) |
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Item: 1.23f.29v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Longinus (IMEV 2960) |
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Item: 1.24f.30r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Patrick (IMEV 3037) |
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Item: 1.25f.39r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Edward the Elder (IMEV 2889) |
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Item: 1.26f.42r |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Cuthbert (IMEV 2880) |
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Item: 1.27f. f.43v |
South English Legendary: Life of St. Benedict (IMEV 2860) |
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'and al his fleis to rend[e]'. |
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Codex |
Parchment |
230 x 130 mm |
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.
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Writing space: height - 175 mm. Single columns with 40-41 lines. Ruled in pencil. |
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.
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F. 1r - space for eight-line capital. Red rubrics.
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Manuscript rebound when the fragmentary leaves were mounted on parchment.
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ff. iv + 44 + ii |
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...'. |
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. |
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.
- Coxe, H. O. 1852. Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus Hodie Adservantur, Oxford. Oxonii: E Typographeo Academico, facsimile reprint Wakefield: E P Publishing 1972.
- DEvelyn, C. and Mill, A. J. 1959 for 1957. The South English Legendary: edited from Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 145 and British Museum MS Harley 2277 with variants from [other manuscripts], 3 vols, EETS, os, 235, 236, 244, London: Oxford University Press, 3.
- Görlach, M. 1974. The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary, Leeds Texts and Monographs, ns, 6, Leeds: University of Leeds School of English, pp. 105-106.
- Ker, N. 1983. Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, 3 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 3, pp. 612-613.
- 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.