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Details for manuscript 297

Manuscript №
297
Location
Escorial
Collection
Real Bibl. de San Lorenzo
Reference
Q.II.6
Headnote
Psalter
Estimated date of production
s.xiv (in)
Folia
178
Place of production
Produced for
Notes
on fol. 13 in a different hand: "list of privleges of West Dereham Priory"; copy of 1522 letter "from Abbot of Welbeck, Notts. to Prior of West Durham" (78)
Sources for this record
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. "An Early Fourteenth-Century English Psalter in the Escorial."  Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes  42 (1979): 65-80.

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text Title Language Start folio (ordinal) End folio (ordinal) Total pages
1 Table of Gospel readings Latin 1r (1) 2v (4) 4.0
2 "A poem interpreting the five letters of the Virgin's name" (Dean no. 745) French 3r (5) 6v (12) 7.5
3 "Prayer of St. Blaise" Latin 6v (12) 6v (12) 0.5
4 Calendar for use of Austin Friars Latin 7r (13) 12v (24) 12.0
5 Short office of the Cross Latin 13v (26) 14v (28) 3.0
6 Psalms i-cl Latin 15r (29) 155v (310) 282.0
7 Canticles Latin 156r (311) 168r (335) 25.0
8 Litany Latin 168v (336) 172v (344) 9.0
9 Office of the Dead Latin 173r (345) 178v (356) 12.0

Owners of this manuscript

Owners
Owner number Owner Period Gender Type Source
1 West Dereham, Norfolk. Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary the Virgin s.xv man clerical http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1885/