Accession number
MS M.926
Object title
St. Albans Miscellany (MS M.926).
Display Date
from the 11th to the early 14th centuries.
Created
England, from the 11th to the early 14th centuries.
Binding
Brown buckram (the name Zucker and the date 2/30/32 are recorded inside the front cover and possibly refer to the binder).
Credit line
Purchase; Library Company of Philadelphia, on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund; April, 1966.
Description
78 leaves (1 column, varying lines), bound : vellum ; 210 x 130 mm
Provenance
St. Alban Abbey (at least from the early 14th century-16th century); Swithin Adee of Oxford and Guldford (d.1786); George Harris (1722-1796); Reverend Samuel Preston, rector of Chevening in Kent, England (rector from 1774-1803); bequeathed by Preston in 1803 to the Library Company of Philadelphia (MS Yi 2.3206.0) see bookplate on flyleaf; purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund in April, 1966.
Notes
Ms. liturgical and hagiographical compendium; written and illuminated in England, perhaps St. Albans Abbey, from the 11th to the early 14th centuries.
Texts: 1) fols. 1-41: Life of St. John the Almoner (in the translation by Anastasius of the Greek life of Leontius); 2) fol. 42v: Hymn to St. Alban; 3) fols. 43, 43v: 2 hymns to St. Alban; 4) fols. 44-51v: Office of St. Alban with musical parts furnished with neumes; 5) fols 52, 52v: Mass of St. Alban; 6) fols. 53-68: Ethelhard, Material relating to St. Dunstan: on fol. 53, Hymn of St. Dunstan; fols. 53v-68 - Life of St. Dunstan; 7) fol. 69: St. Anselm, part of a letter from St. Anselm to Lanfranc, dedicating a work to him; 8) fols 70-73: Life of the hermit St. Alexis (St. Alexius); 9) fols. 74-76: a series of versicles, antiphons and responds for the feast of St. Birinus; 10) fols. 76v-77v: Odo of Cluny, sermon for the feast of St. Benedict.
Decoration: 1 zoomorphic initial (fol. 42v) of 2 biting dragons.
Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes with some diastemy.
Texts: 1) fols. 1-41: Life of St. John the Almoner (in the translation by Anastasius of the Greek life of Leontius); 2) fol. 42v: Hymn to St. Alban; 3) fols. 43, 43v: 2 hymns to St. Alban; 4) fols. 44-51v: Office of St. Alban with musical parts furnished with neumes; 5) fols 52, 52v: Mass of St. Alban; 6) fols. 53-68: Ethelhard, Material relating to St. Dunstan: on fol. 53, Hymn of St. Dunstan; fols. 53v-68 - Life of St. Dunstan; 7) fol. 69: St. Anselm, part of a letter from St. Anselm to Lanfranc, dedicating a work to him; 8) fols 70-73: Life of the hermit St. Alexis (St. Alexius); 9) fols. 74-76: a series of versicles, antiphons and responds for the feast of St. Birinus; 10) fols. 76v-77v: Odo of Cluny, sermon for the feast of St. Benedict.
Decoration: 1 zoomorphic initial (fol. 42v) of 2 biting dragons.
Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes with some diastemy.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
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