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Two Lists of Fifteenth-Century Feasts in the Diocese of Hereford

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

David Thomson
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Manuscript Douce 103 in the Bodleian Library is one. of three manuscripts compiled in the late fifteenth century by a priest of Hereford diocese, the others being MSS Douce 60 and Douce 108. The manuscripts contain elementary grammatical texts such as an English version of Donatus's Ars minor, with rearrangements and expositions of hymns, psalms, canticles and sequences (often using material peculiar to the Hereford Use in this country, and showing a particular interest in St Anne and the Virgin), and copies of John Mirk's Festial and Instructions for Parish Priests. A note in the hand of this compiler on fo. 228v of MS 60 may give some clue as to his identity;

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 584 - 590
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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References

1 MS Douce 103 is described, and the relationship between the three manuscripts discussed, in my Descriptive Catalogue of Middle English Grammatical texts, New York and London 1979, 277–82Google Scholar.

2 I am grateful to Miss Penelope Morgan and her staff for helping me in consulting these records.

3 Frere, W. H. and Brown, L. E. G. (eds.), The Hereford Breviary, 3 vols, Henry Bradshaw Society xxvi (1903Google Scholar), xl (1910), xlvi (1913).

4 Frere and Brown, i. 425ff.

5 Note that W lacks November and December.

6 Frere and Brown, i. 427.

7 See Pfaff, R. W., New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England, Oxford, 1970, 3Google Scholar for these feasts. On p. 56 Pfaff notes that there is evidence to suppose that the feast of the Visitation was accepted into Hereford Use in the first half of the fifteenth century.

8 MS visitacitacionis.

9 MS translacione

10 MS concepciam.

11 Ms jhois (and so elsewhere).

12 MS p'halsum.

13 MS pa.

14 MS Xpi.

15 MS contingentur.

16 MS contingit.

17 MS episcopata.

18 MS Mathe.

19 MS Iacobe.

20 MS Anna.

21 MS phalmos.

22 MS euuag'.

23 MS episcopus.

24 MS pascha.

25 MS hac des.

26 MS triebus.

27 MS Anna.

28 MS Commcmocio.

29 MS sabbato.

30 MS adds festum.