Breviary and Missal

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS LAT 6
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Breviary and Missal
Date(s)	: 13th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume containing 27 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Both manuscripts were probably written in England.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Thirteenth-century manuscript volume. The back bears the inscription: Fragment of 13th century lectionary. The volume comprises fragments of two different manuscripts: Breviarium (breviary, ff 1-18), written for Franciscan use and including hagiographical texts; Missale (missal, ff 19-27v). Very fine miniature depicting the Crucifixion on folio 19r, missing the left hand figure.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin. Gothic minuscule hands.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969), which summarises the contents of the manuscript; handlist at University College London Special Collections.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Sherry L Reames, 'A Recent Discovery concerning the Sources of Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale" ', Modern Philology, lxxxvii(4) (May 1990), which identifies the text on Saint Cecilia which appears in MS LAT 6 as a source for Chaucer.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled 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:
Jul 2001