CONSUETUDINARY OF ST MARY'S, YORK
Vellum, 8.75 x 6, ff. 262 + 1, 30 and 28 lines to a page. 14th-15th cent., clearly written.
Given by Th. Hutton, Nov. 14, 1638.
From St Mary's Abbey, York.
Collation: 18 28 (wants 4, 5) | a quire gone | 38 - 102 (wants 2) 118 - 138 (wants 8) 148 - 198 (wants 1; 5 canc.) 208 - 338 34 (three), 1 flyleaf.
Contents:
Inc. prologus in Consuetudinarium Monasterii b. Marie Ebor. . f. 1
Generis humani misera condicio nesciens se abstinere a uetitis …
Thomas igitur permissione diuina Ebor. archiep. etc. per commis-
ciuilis doctorem et Th. de Walworht Bacallarium utriusque iuris
ac Canon. eccl. Cathedral. S. Petri Ebor. xxxmo die mensis Maii
a.d. mo.cccmo nonogesimo de scientia et consensu Abbatis et
tocius conuentus in domo capitulari hora consueta patres
Johannem de Esyngwald priorem Mon. ac sacre pagine pro-
fessorem Ric. Thornton Thomam Mauleuerer Thomam de
Helmyslay seniores et Johannem de Strensall precentorem cum
consilio et auxilio predicti domini Abbatis et confratrum quos
dicti deputati de conuentu uoluerint euocare ad dictas ambi-
guitates elucidand. etc. etc. prout in uisitacione ordinaria eiusdem
reuerendi patris xvi die eiusdem mensis anno quo supra … fuerat
compertum deputauit, etc. etc.
De disciplina psallendi. Ubique credimus diuinam esse pre-
senciam . . . . . . . . . . 1b
De officio diuino, 2b. De thurificacione et antiphonis terminandis
cum neuma . . . . . . . . . 7b
De numero oracionum in missa et conclusione earum, 8b. Music
begins on f. 9.
After f. 16 (Dom. 1, aduentus) a quire is gone. The next leaf (25)
relates to Maundy Thursday.
De dormitorio, f. 31. De silencio, 32b.
De matutinis, 33b. De hora prima, 44b. De prima de domina, 48b.
(English form of confession, 49.) De missa familiari, 50. De
tabula, 52. Missa in galli cantu. m. de luce, 56b. De m. matu-
tinali, 58. De perliamento, 68b. De hora ante magnam missam
et processione, 69b. De magna missa, 76. De officio sacerdotis
in missa, 78b. (De off. diaconi), 90. De subdiacono, 95. De
thurifero, 99. De ceroferariis, 100b. De obseruancia chori in
missa, 102. De hora sexta, 105. De cotidiano pauperum man-
dato, 105. De ebdomadario magne misse, 106. De quibusdam
dubiis, etc. in missa, 106. De prandio, 109. De hora nona, 118.
De vesperis, 118b. De cena, 119. De secunda feria, 120b. De
placebo et dirigie . . . . . . . . 124
De II dominica aduentus, 125b and so on through the feasts.
Dedicatio ecclesie is in octave of Epiphany, 157b. Corpus
Christi, 243b. De historiis . . . . . . . 246b
After Dominica xxv: De officio sine exequiis mortuorum . . 258
De tricenalibus ibid. De anniuersariis precipuis . . . . 258b
Lists of the principal obits . . . . . . . 259b
Lists of services owed to other monasteries . . . . 261b
De fratre languente in extremis . . . . . . 264b
Visitacio mortui recentis ad sepulcrum per xxx dies . . . 271
De modo dicendi exequias defunctorum . . . . . 272
De breuiatoribus, 274b, ending f. 275a: sed cantor faciet ea scribi.
Scribbles of the names Robert, John and Thomas Barnard on verso.
On last leaf: Ordinale Monasterii D. Marie perten. ad Capellam
domini Abbatis.
The book has been examined by various scholars, but not printed.
Negative microfilm in St John's College Library.
Gilbert Reaney (ed.), Manuscripts of polyphonic music 11th-early 14th century, RISM B; 4, 1 (Munich, 1966), p. 482.
The text has been edited by the Abbess of Stanbrook and J. B. L. Tolhurst for the Henry Bradshaw Society, vols 73, 75 and 84, and portions have been published in the Trustees Society 148 (1933).
Mother Thomas More, 'The practice of alternatim: organ-playing and polyphony in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with special reference to the choir of Notre-Dame de Paris', Journal of ecclesiastical history 18:1 (1967), 15-32.
Iain Fenlon (ed.), Cambridge music manuscripts 900-1700 (Cambridge, 1982).
P.R. Robinson, Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.737-1600 in Cambridge libraries (Cambridge, 1988) vol. I, pp. 86-7, no. 299; vol. II pl. 186 (fol. 15).