Accession number
MS M.627
Object title
Drummond missal (MS M.627).
Display Date
late 11th or early 12th cent.
Created
Ireland, late 11th or early 12th cent.
Binding
Brown Russian over boards with one clasp; in brown morocco box, probably English, ca. 1870.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1916.
Description
108 leaves (1 column, average 23 (calendar) and 16 (missal) lines) : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 110 mm
Provenance
Probably in the possession of the Drummond family in the 14th century; owned by James, Duke of Perth, at Drummond Castle in 1728; lost, and rediscovered in the library at Drummond Castle in 1861; Sir James Drummond collection; Lady Willoughby de Eresby, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Ancaster, wife of Sir James Drummond (1882); Willoughby Merrick Campbell Burrell, 5th Baron Gwyder (1900); purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Quaritch in 1916.
Notes
Ms. missal for the use of Rome or the Church of Ireland; preceeded by a calendar (fol. 1-17v); written and decorated in Ireland in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Musical notation: inflection marks and neumes on fol. 37, 69, 70v, 72v, 76, and 77v.
Decoration: large and small penwork initials often filled-in with purplish red and yellow.
Musical notation: inflection marks and neumes on fol. 37, 69, 70v, 72v, 76, and 77v.
Decoration: large and small penwork initials often filled-in with purplish red and yellow.
Script
insular minuscule
Language
Latin and Irish
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