Current Location: In storage
Titles
Benedictional
Aforismus siderum and miscellaneous texts
Entities
Categories
Description
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
A Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 44 fols. (foliated i – ii, 1-42, the latter being medieval foliation in red,), 211 x 148 mm (137 x 90 mm), 24 long lines, ruled in plummet, catchwords.
B Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 5 fols., 211 x 148 mm (168 x 118 mm), 29 long lines, ruled in plummet.
BINDING: Nineteenth century, purple-brown leather over wooden boards, B bound upside down at the end of the volume, first title BENEDICTIONES gold-stamped on top of spine, second title AFORISMUS gold-stamped upside down at bottom of spine.
CONTENTS
A
fols. i recto - ii recto Index of the Benedictions of the Temporal and Sanctoral
fols. 1r-39r Benedictions for the Temporal and Sanctoral
fols. 39v-42r Benediction of a font
fol. 42v Benedictions for Confirmations
B
fols. 1r-2r Aforismus siderum (Involutio sphaerae)
fol. 2r Interpretation of the Hebrew Alphabet (begins imperfectly)
fol. 2v Letter written partly in Tironian notes
fols. 2v-3v Life of St Jerome (BHL no. 3871d, Fros 1986, 422, no. 6b)
fol. 4r-4v Notes on the liturgical year from Septuagesima to Maundy Thursday attributed to Hrabanus Maurus
fol. 5r-5v Compendiosa disputatio
DECORATION: Diagram of the constellations and musical tones with a rough sketch of an altar beside it (B, fol. 5v).
ORNAMENTATION: Pen-flourished initial [D, 6 ll.] with peacock's tail pattern in the infill, parti-coloured stem and a large partial border in red, blue, green and purple penwork, containing exotic flowers, foliage, and a painted barbed quatrefoil with a blank shield surmounted by a bishop's mitre in the middle of the lower border (A, fol. 1r).
Notes
History note: Jean Baptiste Joseph Barrois (1780–1855), no. clxxxxiii in his collection, an inscription on fol. ii verso, Très curieux; Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797–1878); Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10–14 June 1901, Barrois Collection, lot 54; purchased by Frank McClean (1837–1904); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1904)
by
McClean, Frank
