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MS LAT - Latin Manuscripts

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MS LAT/19
Title	Missal for the use of Friars Minor
Date	15th century
Description	Noted missal for the use of Friars Minor, with music in a square notation. Parchment manuscript, ff. i + 309 + i. Written space 122x85mm in 2 columns of 28 lines. One hand throughout in red and black with red or blue initials. Some decorated initials worked in red and blue with red or violet ornaments. Bound in calfskin over wooden boards, much repaired although the blind-tooled leather on the front and rear boards is possibly from an original binding. Two strap-and-pin closures now missing.
Extent	1 volume containing 308 leaves
AdminHistory	This manuscript was written in Italy for Franciscan use. Appeared in the PM Barnard catalogue 58, (1912), no.49. Walter Seton Sale, Sotheby's, 28 July 1927, Lot 46. The Franciscan order, the largest religious order in the Roman Catholic church, was founded in the early 13th century by St Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226), and comprises three orders: the First Order (priests and lay brothers who have sworn to lead a life of prayer, preaching, and penance), divided into three independent branches, the Friars Minor, the Friars Minor Conventual, and the Friars Minor Capuchin; the Second Order (cloistered nuns who belong to the Order of St Clare, known as Poor Clares); and the Third Order (religious and lay men and women who try to emulate Saint Francis' spirit in performing works of teaching, charity, and social service).
CustodialHistory	With the bookplate of Walter Seton, former College Secretary. Following Seton's death, a fund was raised to buy books of Franciscan interest from his collection at auction.
Acquisition	Purchased at the Seton sale at Sotheby's in 1927 and presented to University College London by the British Society of Franciscan Studies and others.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAids	N R Ker, 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', (London and Oxford, 1969); list at University College London Special Collections.

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