London, British Library, Additional 36791
| England |
| London |
| British Library |
| Additional 36791 |
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| s. xv1 |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 437 258, LP 8070 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 245). |
An early fifteenth-century copy (c. 1425) of the
Speculum Sacerdotale: a series of addresses to parish priests on the festivals of the Christian year in English.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-142v |
| Speculum Sacerdotale (IPMEP 690) |
| 'The olde fadres afore tymes made fro bigynnyng the festyuites of holy apostles'. |
| 'qui cum patre et sancto spiritu viuit et regnat trinitas et vnus in secula seculorum. Amen'. |
| 'Incipit liber qui vocatur speculum sacerdotale'. |
| 'Explicit liber qui vocatur speculum sacerdotale'. |
Weatherly 1936.
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| Codex |
| Paper |
| 275 x 200 mm |
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Unable to ascertain.
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| Pricking: none. Writing space of 215 x 150 mm. Single columns with 27 lines. Ruling not visible. |
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One hand writing a clear cursive of the fifteenth century in black ink (Weatherly 1936, p. 1). Characteristics: reversed circular e; long ascenders/descenders on some letters; double compartment a; ?; B-shaped w; short, hooked ascenders on h, l.
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| No decoration.
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Not medieval. 280 x 205 mm. Covered in brown/tan leather with gold edging and small lattice design in blind on front and back. Pasteboard. Five raised bands across the spine.
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| ff. 143 |
| Marginal notations and a table of contents at the end are in a later hand.
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| Good |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, January 2004.
- http://searcharchives.bl.uk.
- 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.
- Owst, G. R. 1926. Preaching in Medieval England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 234.
- Warner, George Frederic, ed. 1907, rpt. 1989. Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1900-1905, London: The Trustees of the British Museum.
- Weatherly, E. H. 1936. Speculum Sacerdotale edited from British Museum MS. Additional 36791, London: Oxford University Press, facsimile of f. 59r.
