IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207636 accession number: MS 88-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 15 January 2016 updated: Friday 8 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 56 fols., numerous leaves lost A 320 x 222 mm (222 x 165 mm), two columns, 27 lines, ruled in hard point, pricking in upper and lower margins, neumes added on fol. 12r B 320 x 222 mm (235 x 145 mm), two columns, 27 lines, ruled in hard point, pricking in outer margins BINDING: contemporary, alum tawed leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four double supports laced into boards and secured with wooden pegs, head and tail endbands, nail and remains of leather strap on upper cover, remains of nail in centre of lower cover (Sheppard 2005) SECUNDO FOLIO: [D]om[in]ic[a] prima de adventu d[omi]ni. Excita SCRIPT: Caroline minuscule CONTENTS fol. 1r List of relics at Shrewsbury (twelfth-century addition; transcribed in Wormald and Giles 1982, 569) A Gospel Lectionary with collects and homilies (fragment) fols. 2r-31v Temporal from the first Sunday in Advent to the Sunday after Pentecost fols. 32r-39r Sanctoral from December to May and from September to December fols. 39r-43r Common of Saints fol. 43r Dedication of a church B Gospel Lectionary with collects (fragment) fols. 44r-51r Sanctoral from December to July (ends imperfectly) fols. 52r-56r Temporal from the second Sunday after Pentecost to the Sunday before Advent (begins imperfectly, numerous lacunae) ORNAMENTATION Red, green or blue initials [2-6 ll.] with occasional arabesque terminals or abstract infill in the same or alternate colours (e.g. fols. 18v, 42r), the bowls of some initials enclosing a letter indicating an abbreviation (e.g. fols. 18v, 34r, 46r); red or green one-line initials (only in B); the first line of text following an initial is highlighted in yellow (only in A, fols. 2r-20v). title: Gospel Lectionary NOTES ----- type: history note value: At Shrewsbury after 1138, when the list of relics was added (fol. 1r); James Bowen, 1745 (ownership inscription, fol. 1r), who assembled a collection on the history of Shropshire; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MS 3624 (inscribed in pencil on fol. 1r, label with printed number on spine), acquired c.1828; pressmark ‘a.24.339’ pencilled inside upper cover; pressmark ‘D/V/14’ pencilled inside upper cover and on fol. 1r; acquired by Francis Wormald (1904-1972) before 24 February 1948 (ex-info N. Ker, letter kept on file), his MS 3 (his signature and number 3 written in ink on fol. 1r); presented to the Museum by Mrs Wormald in 1972 in accordance with her late husband’s wishes. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books creditline: Presented by Mrs Francis Wormald STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207636 TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- egg tempura CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1075 - 1125 creation date earliest: 1075 creation date latest: 1125 culture: 11th-12th Century CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges - Part Four. The British Isles. Vol. 1: Insular and Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c.1066-1130) Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: a List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (3 vols.) Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 A Handlist of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Part VI, Accessions 1966-74 Liturgical Books in Anglo-Saxon England and their Old English Terminology The Census of Western Medieval Bookbinding Structures to 1500 in British Libraries, Stage 1: Cambridge. 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