Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- TABLES
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON USAGE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- MANUSCRIPT SIGLA
- Part I The Historical Development of the Divine Office in England to c.1000
- Part II Manuscript Evidence for English Office Chant in the Tenth Century
- 6 A METHODOLOGY FOR THE STUDY OF ANGLO-SAXON CHANT BOOKS FOR THE OFFICE
- 7 TWO WITNESSES TO THE CHANT OF THE SECULAR OFFICE IN ENGLAND IN THE TENTH CENTURY
- 8 A FRAGMENT OF A TENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BENEDICTINE ‘BREVIARY’
- 9 A FRAGMENT OF A TENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BENEDICTINE CHANT BOOK
- 10 CONCLUSION: WAYS OF MAKING A BENEDICTINE OFFICE
- Appendices
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS
- INDEX OF LITURGICAL FORMS
- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES AND LITURGICAL READINGS
- GENERAL INDEX
9 - A FRAGMENT OF A TENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BENEDICTINE CHANT BOOK
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. D. 894, fols. 62–3
from Part II - Manuscript Evidence for English Office Chant in the Tenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- TABLES
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON USAGE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- MANUSCRIPT SIGLA
- Part I The Historical Development of the Divine Office in England to c.1000
- Part II Manuscript Evidence for English Office Chant in the Tenth Century
- 6 A METHODOLOGY FOR THE STUDY OF ANGLO-SAXON CHANT BOOKS FOR THE OFFICE
- 7 TWO WITNESSES TO THE CHANT OF THE SECULAR OFFICE IN ENGLAND IN THE TENTH CENTURY
- 8 A FRAGMENT OF A TENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BENEDICTINE ‘BREVIARY’
- 9 A FRAGMENT OF A TENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH BENEDICTINE CHANT BOOK
- 10 CONCLUSION: WAYS OF MAKING A BENEDICTINE OFFICE
- Appendices
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS
- INDEX OF LITURGICAL FORMS
- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES AND LITURGICAL READINGS
- GENERAL INDEX
Summary
Rawlinson D. 894 in the Bodleian Library (Summary Catalogue 13660) is a guardbook containing, in the main, fragments from liturgical and musical manuscripts of varying date. Folios 62 and 63 are the two leaves of a small bifolium. The first extended notice of this fragment was given in S. J. P. Van Dijk's handlist of liturgical manuscripts in the Bodleian:
FRANCE 10th (?) century
From the sanctorale: portions of the Commemoration of St Paul (30 June), the night office of St Lawrence (10 Aug.) and a part of the office of the Assumption (15 Aug.). Several texts in full, some music.
Parchm., 2 consecutive fol., 155×108 mm., lower margins and 1 or 2 lines of text cut; 23 or 24 lines and 2 col. orig. about 140×80 mm. Some fine adiastematic, non-rhythmical neums for the resp. Meruit esse hostia levita Laurentius and Beatus fuit [sic] Laurentius qui post. Perhaps from a kind of primitive breviary.
The fragment was included in Helmut Gneuss's ‘Preliminary list of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1100’ on the advice of Neil Ker, who said of these leaves, ‘Bodleian, Rawlinson D. 894, no. 43 I thought at some time probably English, s. x/xi.’ It was retained as number 663 in Gneuss's 2000 Handlist, where it is described as ‘Responsoriale (f[ragment]): s. x/xi’. K. D. Hartzell calls the fragment a ‘directory of an antiphoner – a list by incipit of antiphons, their psalms, and responsories’, noting that it is arranged for the monastic cursus.
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- The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000 , pp. 301 - 347Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014