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Praeparatio Episcopi (Pontifical ie Bishop's service book)
- Date
- Fifteenth or sixteenth century
- Reference
- MSR-10
- Description
The manuscript opens on f.1: 'Officium quando episcopus preparat se ad missam celebrandam . . . dicendo hanc orationem. Largire clementissime pater . . .', with prayers for use during preparation of the Mass and while putting on various vestments (ff.1-18r); prayers to say after Mass (ff.18-23v); order for confirmation of one person (ff.23v-28); order for the ordination of one cleric (ff.28-35); order for the confirmation of more than one person (ff.35-39v); order for the ordination of more than one cleric (ff.39v-43v); orders for the blessing of various ecclesiastical objects (ff.43v-86); and table of contents (ff.87-90); later benedictions have been added on ff.90 and 92v.
Source of title - Supplied title
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Vellum, 92 leaves, bound; 180 x 110mm. Single column, 13 lines, ruled in pale-red ink, written space 125 x 65 mm, written in black ink in a fine gothic liturgical hand, rubrics and running titles in red, capitals touched in yellow; line-fillers in red and blue; 1-line captials in red or blue.
Finding Aids: Manion, M.M. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in New Zealand collections, no. 149..
Provenance: Executed in France in the 15th or 16th centuries.
The arms of the bishop for whom this book was made appear in the initial on f.1 but have been overpainted at an early date with the royal arms of France and only a shadowy impression of the original charge is visible, a bend, in chief a lion rampant; the appearance of the book in Chartres later in its history might hint at a first owner among the Renaissance bishops of Chartres, and the arms of Erard de la Mark, Bishop of Chartres (1507-1523), were: or, a fess checky gules and argent, in chief a lion rampant gules. A smudged inscription on the verso of the second contemporary endleaf is dated 1544. Inside the lower cover is the ownership inscription 'hic liber est claudii gombault, illi qui invenient rogo illos reddere ilum claudium gombault, Carnuto, 1701'. Markings dated 1777 are inside the upper cover. The manuscript has the bookplates of Sir Thomas Gage (1810-1866), Sheriff of Suffolk and of Hubert Greville Palmer.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Illuminated manuscripts, Vellum, 92 leaves, bound; 180 x 110mm., Single column, 13 lines, ruled in pale-red ink, written space 125 x 65 mm, written in black ink in a fine gothic liturgical hand, rubrics and running titles in red, capitals touched in yellow; line-fillers in red and blue; 1-line captials in red or blue., Binding: old (probably 17th-century) limp vellum, lacking ties; in a red gilt case., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork in black or red; on f.1 is a slightly later (16th-century) 3-line initial 'L' on a liquid gold ground with a floral and leaf infill in green, pink and white; and a partial border of French floral acanthus design.
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