The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220
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Litanies in a Pontifical (fols 1-76v) and Benedictional (fols 77r-166v) text. They are, according to Dewick, an 'East Anglian type adapted for use at Exeter Cathedral' (1921, pp. 613-18). The greater litany contains the names of numerous Anglo-Saxon saints, including saint Ægelflæd, an abbess of Romsey, who also occurs in the lesser litany.
Text Language: Latin, with names of English saints.
Other versions of the text: The litanies are also found in London British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.vii, fols 17v-18r, 20r, copied in s. xi1 (Ker 1957, item 213).
Bibliography:
Dewick 1921, p. 615
Drage 1978, p. 357
Form: Codex
Support: Parchment. Flyleaves are modern paper.
Extent:
181 mm x 120 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
130 mm x ca. 80 mm (dimensions of all - size of written)
Foliation and/or Pagination: Fols [ii], 1-166, [ii].
- Foliated in pencil 1-166.
- Paginated in ink in the top right hand corner of the rectos and top left hand corner of the versos 1-269, 269-333. The paginations on the rectos have been crossed out in pencil.
Collation:
Layout description:
Ruled in drypoint for 19 lines. Double bounding lines 3 mm apart on each side. Coloured initial capitals are placed between the left bounding lines. The horizontal lines are 4 mm apart. The top two and bottom two lines transect the bounding lines and run to the edge of the page.
A note on the pastedown says the manuscript was 'Bound April 1956'. Red leather with gilt letters on the spine that reads 'Benedictionale | Sec. Usum Angl. | BRIT. MUS. | Additional MS 28,188'. Each quire is now mounted onto an individual guard.
The back of the last flyleaf has written in pencil '166 Fol's. W. L. May 1870 4° [xxx]'.
Bishop, T. A. M., 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts; Part III: MSS. Connected with Exeter', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2.2 (1955), 192-99
British Library, Manuscripts Catalogue (British Library, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/; accessed in 2010)
Dewick, E. S., The Leofric Collectar Compared with the Collectar of St. Wulfstan, Together with Kindred Documents of Exeter and Worcester. 2, ed. by W. H. Frere (London: Harrison, 1921)
Drage, E., 'Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072: A Reassessment of the Manuscript Evidence' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Oxford, 1978)
Frere, W. H., Pontifical Services, Alcuin Club Collections, 3 (London: Longmans, 1901), p. 96
Gasquet, Abbot, and Edmund Bishop, The Bosworth Psalte: An Account of a Manuscript Formerly Belonging to O. Turville-Petre Esq. of Bosworth Hall Now Addit. MS. 37517 at the British Museum (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908), p. 48, n. 2
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), item 286
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), note in item 213
Wanley, H., Librorum Veterum Septentrionalium Catalogus (1705)