IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 1
Held at: University College London
Title: Lectionary for Holy Days and Feasts
Date(s): 12th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 40 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Lectionarium Pro Sanctis Diebus Et Festis (lectionary for holy days and feasts). Apparently incomplete. On the modern binding is: Sermones de sanctis. saec. XII (12th century sermons on saints).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin. Gothic minuscule script.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Parchment manuscript in modern red calf binding. With the exception of the first folio, written by the same hand throughout, a rather large script, containing numerous abbreviations. Initials and headings are in red, and initial letters of words are sometimes ornamented with vertical red strokes. Script on folio 39r in parts illegible. 19.5cm.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Originally bound with University College London MS LAT 2 & 3 and MS GERM 16 as Phillipps MS 18090.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to University College London in 1911 by Lord Cromer.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Jul 2001