Southwell, Southwell Minster, VII
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Southwell
Repository: Southwell Minster
Idno:VII
AltName:
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Date and Language
Date:s. xvex
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect: south Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 284, LP 80 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, pp. 164-165).
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Contents
A manuscript containing John Mirk's Festial and saints' lives produced in the late fifteenth century (Ker 1992, p. 351). Wakelin suggests 'just after 1500' (1967, p. 110).

Item: 1
Locus:ff. 1r-171v
Title:Festial (IPMEP 734)
Incipit:'Incipit prologus libri festialis'.'By myne owne feble lectur i know how hit faryth'.
Explicit:'for euer aftur etcetera amen etcetera explicit liber festiualis quod iohannes meyrc.'
Bibliography:Erbe 1905. Ker and Piper 1992, pp. 351-352.

Item: 2
Locus:ff. 172r-174v
Title:Life of St. Ursula (IPMEP 719)
Incipit:'Ther was in brytayne a kyng full noble'
Explicit:'and the seyde holi virginis beried his body themselfe'.
Rubric:'Here folowyth the lyfe and martyrdam of that floriose virgyn seynt vrsula wyth hur felischip x thowsand and xi virginis'. In red in upper margin.
Colophon:'Explicit vita sancte vrsule cum sociis suis cum cuibusdem miraculis de xi milia virginibus'.
Bibliography:Gørlach 1973, pp. 450-451.

Item: 3
Locus:ff. 175r-189r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Katharine of Alexandria (IMEV 2954)
Incipit:'Here begynnyth the prologe and then aftre'.
Explicit:'Now ihesu crist goddys son şat art full of my?t graunt vs grace to haue mynd on this passion by the whiche we may come to the eternal blis and kyngdom of heuyn. Amen'.
Colophon:'Here endyth the lyfe of seynt kateryne virgyne and martyr'.
Note:Ff. 189v-190v blank.
Bibliography:Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 92-101; Nevanlinna and Taavitsainen 1993.

Item: 4
Locus:ff. 191r-193r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Oswald the Bishop (IMEV 3035)
Incipit:'Seynt oswalde the bishope was borne in ynglond'.
Explicit:'Wherfor his name be preysid world wythout ende. Amen'.
Rubric:'De vita sancti oswaldi archiepiscopi & episcopi eboracensis & wygorniensis cum miraculis'. Written in upper margin.
Bibliography:

Item: 5
Locus:ff. 193r-194v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Dunstan (IMEV 2884)
Incipit:'Seynt dunstan was of the reame of englond'.
Explicit:'wherfor his name be preisid world wythout ende. Amen'.
Rubric:'Vita sancti dunstani abbatis glastoniensis & postea archiepiscopi cantuarensis'.
Bibliography:Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 19-24.

Item: 6
Locus:ff. 194v-199r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Edmund the Bishop (IMEV 2886)
Incipit:'Seynte edmunde the confessor şat lyeth at povnteney'.
Explicit:'wher our lord schowyth mony a grete myracle for his holy seynt edmunde etcetera.
Rubric:'De sancto edmundo confessore'.
Bibliography:Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 431-449.

Item: 7
Locus:f. 199r-v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Edmund the King(IMEV 2887)
Incipit:'Seynt edmunde the martyr was kyng of a parte of englond'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De sancto edmundo rege & martire'.
Bibliography:Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 296-299.

Item: 8
Locus:ff. 199v-201r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Edward the Elder (IMEV 2889)
Incipit:'Seynt edwarde the yong kyng and martyr was the son of kyng edgar'.
Explicit:'Wherfor our lord god be praysid world wythout ende. Amen'.
Rubric:'De vita sancti edwardi regis & martiris filii regis edgari'.
Bibliography:

Item: 9
Locus:ff. 201r-202v
Title:Life of St. Faith (IPMEP 2897)
Incipit:'Seynt feythe the holi virgyne become christyn in hur yong age'.
Explicit:'wherfor god quyte şem şer meede in the blisse of hevyn. Amen'.
Rubric:'Vita sancte ffides virginis & c.'
Bibliography:Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 83-86.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Paper
Extent:284 x 204 mm
Collation: 1-912; 1012 (wants 11, 12); 1112; 12-1310; 1412; 1512; 168; 178; 1812. Although each leaf is now mounted separately this collation has been suggested by Nevanlinna and Taavitsainen 1993, p. 53 (See also Ker and Piper 1992, p. 352).
Layout:Writing space of c. 200 x 120 mm in single columns with 32-37 lines. Frame ruled in hard point.
Writing: For an extensive description of the script see Nevanlinna and Taavitsainen (1993, pp. 54-57) where it is described as 'essentially Secretary but mixed with some Anglicana features' with Latin quotations in Textura. See also Ker and Piper (1992, p. 352 and facsimile, f. 181r) and Dahood (2000, p. 143, facsimile, f. 3r).
Decoration:Latin quotations in red; red initials.
Binding: Medieval binding in red leather over wooden boards, rebacked in 1950. Boards are bare but part of the original leather is preserved loose. Evidence of one clasp. Parchment binding leaves from thirteenth-century service books (Ker 1992, p. 351).
Foliation:ff. vi + 202 + iv.
Additions:
Condition:Good.
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History
Provenance:F. 202v, written in the same sixteenth-century hand: 'Iste liber pertinet Ad fratrem Rycardum [...]', 'Nota quod gray pertinet libro ho...(?)'. F. 202v, names written in sixteenth/seventeenth-century hands: 'Geo: Saunderson', 'R. Saunderson', 'Jo: Bolle', 'Thomas Nydhame', 'Andrew Prouloue Booke'; 'John Charlement'. F. 203v: 'Hen. Raper [...] 1693/4', f. iiiv, 'H. Raper D. D.', f. 1; Henry Raper was admitted at Southwell in 1694 as a vicar-choral, see Southwell Act Book 11a f. 163v (Ker 1992, p. 352).
Acquisition:
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. Manuscript not examined. Described with reference to Ker 1992, pp. 351-352, and Nevanlinna and Taavitsainen 1993.
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Bibliography
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