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Metadata

DS ID:

DS507

Shelfmark:

Poole 41

Title:

Massbook

Massbook

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

s. X(ex); 985-999

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, One leaf: Rubrics in red; several enlarged initials; a little pencil cross in the left-hand margin of the verso, and bracket around lines 11-13, extending to line 14, is in Libri's hand (1802-1869). It indicated to the engraver that these four lines were to be copied, and they were reproduced as plate XXIX in the sale catalogue of 1859.
Number of scribes, One leaf: One primary.
Script, One leaf: Insular minuscule, square; court hand scribbles.
Layout, One leaf: Apparently blind ruled, 24 lines, written space 234 mm by 115 mm, traces of prickings in outer margins.

Former Owner(s):

Guglielmo Libri (1802-1869); his sale, Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, part of lot 1111 ("Fragmenta Vetusta" with Poole MS 40); Sir Thomas Phillips (1972-1872); from the collection of specimen leaves formed by Messrs. W. H. Robinson, who bought the residue of the Phillipps library in 1945-46, sold by them to George A. Poole in 1947, acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja WIKIDATA

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

George Amos Poole WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: In the sixteenth century the ms. remains were cut up for salvage as a wrapper in the outside of a book binding. Scribbles in court hand on what was the innder side of the wrapper including "An yf he that bought thys booke knew what A" and the name "Rycharde Brooke" several times.
Bibliography: Faye and Bond 1962, p. 181; Stoneman 1997, pp. 103 and 118-9; Gneuss 2001, p. 119.
One leaf: High-grade insular square minusule is very similar to the Bosworth Psalter (London, BL., Add. MS 37517) written almost certainly at Christ church, Canterbury. De Hamel suggests that the Poole fragment may also have been made in Christ Church, perhaps even in the household of Saint Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury 961-88.
One leaf: Latin.
One leav r-v: This leaf is from the liturgy of Good Friday. It opens in the prayer for heretics and schismatics, with prayers for those deceived by the Devil, for Jews ("pro perfidis iudeis") and for pagans, corresponding exactly to the edition of the Leofric Missal, Orchard 2002, II, p. 169, nos. 797-802, followed by a longer and more complex rubric than in the Leofric text (Oxford, Bodleian...
Explicit, One leav r-v: ut deus ac dominus noster.

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington