[The festial of English sermons]
Description
Several leaves missing and damaged, getting more fragmentary towards the end. 2-line initials and highlighting in red, with occational pointing hands in the margins, throughout the Festial. A type B copy (cf. Wakelin), with the sermons arranged in temporale and sanctorale sequences. Festial written in secretary with anglicana e, g and r. Sequentiale written in late 15th-century mixture of anglicana and secretary. Principal contents: ff. 1r-116v The Festial of John Mirk; ff. 117r-138v Sequentiale, with partial interlinear gloss in English. Purchased for the Brotherton Collection from M. Breslauer, 4 June 1958. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 70-71. See also: M. F. Wakelin, 'The Manuscripts of John Mirk's Festial', in: Leeds Studies in English, N.S. i (1967), pp. 93-119, and O. S. Pickering and S. Powell, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist VI (1989) pp. 12-26. The sermons are edited in M. F. Wakelin, 'An Edition of John Mirk's Festial as it is contained in the Brotherton Collection MS', unpublished University of Leeds M.A. thesis, 1960.
Metadata
| Identifier | tf6j9952 |
| IRN | 118290 |
| Class Mark | BC MS 502 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tf6j9952 |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection) |
| Creator(s) | Mirk, John |
| Date | [ca. 1450-1500] |
| Size and Medium | 1 v. (ii, 138, ii leaves) (1 column, ff. 1-116: 28-36 lines, ff. 117-138: 17-23 lines; frame-ruled with a hard point) |