Manuscript: Bodleian Bodley 579 (2675)
Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)
Sacramentary with catchwords for Mass chants, Pontifical, Benedictional : s. ix/x (c. 900), Saint-Vaast, Arras (or Cambrai diocese?) ; Calendar (with added obits) and computus material ('Leofric-Tiberius Computus') : prob. 979x987, Canterbury or Glastonbury? ; Pericope (and some chant) incipits: s. xi med., Exeter; other additions made in England s. x1 (920s) -- xii, including Records* and Donation inscription+* s. xi in. -- s. xi ex., prov. England s. x1/4, prov. Exeter s. xi. FC: The Leofric Missal, ed. F. E. Warren (Oxford, 1883).
Current location
- Repository
- Bodleian Library
- Town or City
- Oxford
- Shelfmark
- Bodley 579 (2675)
Other information
- Name
- Leofric Missal
- Catalogue Numbers
- G. 585
- K. 315
- Format
- Unspecified
- Date
- s. ix/x (c. 900)
- Origin
- St-Vaast, Arras (dubitable)
Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 585)
Sacramentary with catchwords for Mass chants, Pontifical, Benedictional : s. ix/x (c. 900), Saint-Vaast, Arras (or Cambrai diocese?) ; Calendar (with added obits) and computus material ('Leofric-Tiberius Computus') : prob. 979x987, Canterbury or Glastonbury? ; Pericope (and some chant) incipits: s. xi med., Exeter; other additions made in England s. x1 (920s) -- xii, including Records* and Donation inscription+* s. xi in. -- s. xi ex., prov. England s. x1/4, prov. Exeter s. xi. FC: The Leofric Missal, ed. F. E. Warren (Oxford, 1883).
DigiPal Project
Ker: Records consist of manumissions and a list of sureties. 'art e is on a leaf [i.e. fol. 8] which may not have any original connexion with the missal.'
Rushforth No. 7.
Also has neumed passage in Square minuscule (phase?) on 267v, with extended proportions.
- Manumissions, Hand 4 (8v1–9)
- Manumissions, Hand 5 (8v10–14)
- Manumissions, Hand 6 (8v14–16)
- Manumissions, Hand 7 (8v16–18)
- Manumissions, Hand 8 (8v18–20)
- Manumissions, Hand 9 (8v21–23)
- Manumissions, Hand 10 (8v24–27)
- Donation Inscription (1r) (Drage, Scribe 2. saec. xi2 ('earlier' in Leofric's episcopate)))
- Latin Additions (4r, 5r and 7v) (Bishop, Scribe 4. saec. xi3/4))
- Manumissions, Hand 3 (377v)
- List of Sureties, Hand 1 (11v)
- Manumissions, Hand 2 (no. 1 on 1r)
- List of Sureties, Hand 2 (11v)
- Manumission Hand 1 (nos. 2–5 on 1rv)
- Latin Hand (e.g. 24r)