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| Part 1 |
ff. 22-23v |
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| Title |
Two half-leaves of a Sarum Antiphonary with text for Pentecost Sunday |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
c. 1380 - c. 1410 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic; notes on four-line red staves |
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| Decoration |
A bar border of blue, brown, and gold, with an interlace knot and sprouting three-leaf foliage (f. 22), a blue initial with red penwork decoration, small red, blue, and brown initials .Musical notation: square notation on four-line red staves. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
185 x 210 in two columns (fragments) |
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| Part 2 |
f. 48r-v |
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| Title |
Part leaf of a noted Missal with part of the text for Holy Saturday including the Canticle of Moses |
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| Origin |
Germany |
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| Date |
c. 1000 - c. 1060 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Caroline minuscule; Saint Gall neumes (f. 48) |
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| Decoration |
Large red simple initial; script in alternating colours of red and blue-green. Musical notation: neumes, Germany, end of the 11th century. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
280 x 160 |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 49-50v |
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| Title |
Two leaves of a text apparently by Godfrey, a papal deacon |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
14th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
A red and blue puzzle initial with pen-flourishing, and small blue initials with pen-flourishing; seventeenth century? inscription referring to the lord of Suffolk and to Norwich. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
270 x 190 (235 x 150) |
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| Part 4 |
f. 58r-v |
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| Title |
Leaf of a noted Breviary with antiphons and readings for the first Sunday in August |
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| Origin |
France or England |
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| Date |
1st half of the 13th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic; neumes |
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| Decoration |
Large red or blue initials with penwork decoration in the other colour; small brown initials decorated with foliate forms. Musical notation: neumes, Southern France (Aquitania), end of the 12th century. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
400 x 250 (in two columns) |
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| Part 5 |
ff. 59-60v |
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| Title |
Two leaves of Graduals with part of the text for John the Evangelist |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 14th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic; notes on 4-line staves |
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| Decoration |
Large blue initials with red pen-flourishing; large brown initials with penwork decoration. Musical notation: square notation on four-line red staves (B, C, F and G clefs). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
300 x 210 (220 x 145) |
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| Part 6 |
f. 64r-v |
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| Title |
Leaf of a noted Breviary with texts for St Martin |
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| Origin |
France or England |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic; notes on red four-line staves |
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| Decoration |
Large green initials with red penwork decoration; one large red simple initial. Musical notation: square notation on four-line red staves. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
280 x 210 (225 x 70) (in two columns) |
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| Part 7 |
f. 66r-v |
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| Title |
Outer half of a leaf of a Breviary with readings from Matthew, the commentary of Jerome on Matthew, and noted responsories and verses |
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| Origin |
France or England |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 13th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic; notes on four-line staves |
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| Decoration |
Large red or blue initials with pen-flourishing in the other colour, and a small red initial. Musical notation: neumes (‘Hufnagel’) on four-line black staves (C clef), north-Western Germany or the Netherlands, 13th century. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
395 x 190 (320 x 100) |
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| Part 8 |
ff. 69-72v |
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| Title |
Fragments of an Antiphoner including parts of offices for Lawrence, Hippolitus, and Peter and Paul |
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| Origin |
England, S. E. (Canterbury ) |
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| Date |
1st quarter of the 11th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Caroline minuscule; |
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| Decoration |
Large simple initials in green or red; small initial and rubrication in blue or red; the original order of leaves: ff. 71, 72, 70, 69. Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes, England (Canterbury), 11th century with later additions in Anglo-Norman neumes (early 12th century, f. 70v-71) and square notation on four-lines black staves (early 13th century, f. 71-71v, 72v). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
variable |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 73; all fragments |
| Form |
some parchment, some paper |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather. |
| Provenance |
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Purchased for the British Museum from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. |
| Notes |
ff. 69-72 are fragments from the same manuscript as Stowe 1061 f. 125. Musical notation in many fragments.
Mostly removed from bindings.
ff. 1-21v; 24-47v; 51-57v; 61-63v; 65; 67-68v; 73 are various fragments, including of the Laws of Alfred and Ine (f. 42). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pp. 71-72.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 136.
Gero Dolezalek, Verzeichnis der Handschriften zum römischen Recht bis 1600: Materialsammlung, System und Programm für elektronische Datenverarbeitung, 4 vols (Frankfurt: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 1972), I (unpaginated: referenced by manuscript number).
Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, 9 vols (Vienna: Böhlau, 1969-2001), II/2: Grossbritannien und Irland: Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte, 276 (1972), 166. (f. 1) [Part 1].
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: University Press, 1999), no. 362 (f. 42) [ Part 1].
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), nos 307 (f. 42) [Part 1]; 307.2 (ff. 69-72) [Part 9].
K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), p. 338, no. 127. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
