Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) was a Roman advocate and senator, who acted as tutor and, following his accession, political advisor to the Roman emperor Nero. He was implicated in a conspiracy and forced to commit suicide. His writings included a series of
St Jerome (c340-420) wrote a large number of theological works. Amongst his earliest were his revisions of the Latin version of the New Testament, including the Epistles of St Paul in 385.
The
The Missal is a liturgical book which contains the prayers said by the priest at the altar as well as all that is officially read or sung in connection with the offering of the holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the ecclesiastical year.
Medieval manuscript fragments formerly used as pastedowns, as follows:
1. Fragment of a leaf containing part of an abridgement of Seneca's
2. Fragment of a leaf containing part of St Jerome's
3. Fragment of a leaf containing Book III, 6 and 7, of the
4. Fragment of a leaf containing part of the sanctorale from a Missal of Roman use, from the epistle of the Assumption of the Virgin (15 Aug) to the introit for the feast of St Agapitus (18 Aug), only the mass for St Laurence (17 Aug) being complete. The manuscript was probably written in Italy during the 14th century.
Fragment 1 was previously MS.29/1 in the collection of A.G. and M. Hammond.
Fragment 1: 27 lines; lines ruled in ink; writing above the top line.
Fragment 2: 47 lines written in 2 columns; 5-line initial D in red and blue with red ornament; running heading in red; paragraphs numbered in blue and red; red paraphs; rubricated.
Fragment 3: 2 columns; 38 lines on the recto and 20 on the verso; 2-line initials in red and blue with simple violet and red ornament; 2-line initials in red for gloss; red capitals; red and blue paraphs; rubricated.
Fragment 4: 24 lines in 2 columns; 3-line initial P decorated in red, blue, pink and gold; 2-line initials in red and blue with blue and red ornament; red and blue capitals; rubricated.
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Given by Miss D. Bains in 1973.
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See R Watson 'Descriptive list of fragments of medieval manuscripts in the University of London Library' (1976).