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YORK HYMNAL
Catalogue reference: Sion L40.2/L41
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- Sion L40.2/L41
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Title (The name of the record)
- YORK HYMNAL
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Date (When the record was created)
- 15th century
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Description (What the record is about)
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A collection of hymns and sequences, mainly of York use. ff. 1r-4r. Hymns found in the Sarum breviary. ff. 1r-3v. Seventeen week-day hymns, 'Sompno refectis' - 'Aurora iam spargit'. These are nos. 19 to 35 in the list of hymns in the Sarum breviary in 'Breviarium ad usum Sarum', ed. Francis Procter and Christopher Wordsworth, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1879-86) vol 3, p. ciii. f. 4r. 'Christi miles', a hymn for the feast of St. Vincent. This in no. 82 in the Procter and Wordsworth list; the text is printed by them in vol 3, p. 107. ff. 4v-39r. Sequences of York use. The sequences are 104 in number ('Celeste organum' occurs twice). Of these, 99 are found in 'Missale ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis', ed. William George Henderson (Surtees Society, vols 59-60, 1874), vol 1 pp. 1-259, vol 2 pp. 1-227. The five here but not in the text of the York missal as printed by W.G. Henderson are 'Sonent regi' (f. 5v), 'Vox clarescat' (f. 15v), 'Mirabilis deus' (f. 36r), 'Aue gloriosa uirginum regina' (f. 36v), and 'Iubilans concrepa' (f. 38v). Of these five, 'Aue gloriosa' (U. Chevalier, 'Repertorium Hymnologicum', 6 vols. (1892-1921), no. 1828) is printed by W.G. Henderson from this manuscript in his appendix V (Henderson, vol 2, p. 321). All the others, except 'Vox clarescat' (U. Chevalier, 'Repertorium Hymnologicum', no. 22203), are printed by W. G. Henderson in his appendix IV, derived from MS. Bodley 775 (Henderson, vol 2, pp. 285, 298, 312). The sequences printed by W. G. Henderson but not in the present collection are 'Vox iubilantes', 'Hac clara die', and of Five Wounds, Visitation of B.V.M., and Corona Domini (vol 1, pp. 217, 254; vol 2, pp. 86, 214-15, 221). E. Missel and W. H. J. Weale, Analecta Liturgica, II. ii. 405-25, give the variant readings of this copy for their nos. 759-77. f. 40v. An addition on a fly leaf. 'Sospitati dedit egros ...', with musical notes. (U. Chevalier, 'Repertorium Hymnologicum', 6 vols. (1892-1921), no. 19244, for St. Nicholas. f. 39v, originally blank, and the fly-leaves, ff. 40 and 41, bear many scribbles, including the words 'Item for tawnys boght of Thomas Wylson xx s.' repeated eleven times on f. 41r and memoranda of payments 'a magistro meo' in 1506-8 on f. 39v. The names Johannes Key, Thomas Smallpage, and Jenet Hyrstwode are on ff. 38v, 39r, 15th-16th century.
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A digital copy is available via the online image management system: http://images.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/luna/servlet/s/50cb7z Microfilm: Lambeth Palace Library Box 677
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Lambeth Palace Library
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Sion College
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 41 ff.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Written for use in the diocese of York. Owned by John C. Jackson in 1869. He is probably John Cohen Jackson, Headmaster of Hackney Church of England school 1854-78. Found loose in the volume is a letter from him to 'my dear Milman' [probably William Henry Milman, Librarian of Sion College 1856-1908] dated 4 Dec. 1869, in which he says that the manuscript turned up in a London sale; he seeks a purchaser. Probably acquired by Sion College at this time, and certainly by 1874 when Henderson's edition of the York missal was published. The volume also has Jackson's ownership signature at f. 1r and contains loose pages in his hand with notes on the hymns and sequences. A letter to Milman from William George Henderson, the editor of the York Missal, is also inserted loose. Recorded c.1939 as shelved amongst printed books at Sion College with shelfmark A34.3f/Y8 (see Sion L40.2/E109, f. 85). Transferred from Sion College to Lambeth Palace Library, 1996. See also Description field.
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Leather binding 230 x 160 mm., 19th century. Paper leaves, c.220 x 150 mm. Written space c.165 x 140 mm. 23-27 long lines. No ruling. ff. 40, 41 are medieval fly-leaves. Collation: 1 three; 2(16); 3(12); 4(8). Written in current anglicana. 2-line and 1-line red initials. Secundo folio 'pulsis'.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/e6355bc0-5ac0-4710-81ca-6b6ac65ec994/
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SION COLLEGE MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION
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YORK HYMNAL