The Sanctorale, as originally written, contained only one English saint, Milburga (23 Feb). The Translation of Augustine of Hippo is at 11 Oct and the Feast of Relics at 8 Aug as in the late twelfth century calendar of MS. Harley 2905. Additions to the Sanctorale, mainly of the fourteenth century, include offices for the West of England saints Ethelbert, Wulfhad, and Thomas of Hereford (20 May, 24 Jul, 2 Oct) and for the Translation of St Winefred (18 Sep: cf. the martyrology in Bodleian MS. Rawlinson D.1225, from St. Chad’s Shrewsbury); also for St. Edward King and Martyr, St Alban, the Translation of St. Thomas of Canterbury, St. Oswald, King and Martyr, the Translation of St. Cuthbert, and St Frideswide (18 Mar, 22 Jun, 7 Jul, 5 Aug, 4 Sep, 19 Oct). Much earlier s.xii ex., St Thomas of Canterbury was added to the Temporale (f.11v, 29 Dec), which also contains, as a fourteenth century addition, a ‘missa matutinalis de S. Thoma’ opposite the office for Epiphany (f.13). Rubrics in the original text and among the additions envisage an abbot as head of the community, e.g. f.57v, ‘Si abbas dicat missam…’.

A 12th century gradual of Augustinian use, consisting of Temporale (ff.1-101), Sanctorale (ff.101-120), Commune Sanctorum (ff.120-139), and ‘Officium pro defunctis’ (ff.139v-142), all with music on a four-line stave in red.

Late twelfth century additions, with music, fill the originally blank pages 142v-144v at the end of quire 18:

The rest of the manuscript was added in s.xiv:

These last five sequences are not in Rep. Hymn.

An endleaf, f.176, formerly a pastedown, is from an early fifteenth century Processional, containing part of the Advent service, as in Processional Sarum, ed. 1882, pp.5-6.

Ff.iii + 175 +iv. For f.176 see above. 10.3 x 7 inches. Written space c.7.6 x 5 inches. Twelve long lines spaced for music on a four-line stave (ff.1-141). Collation: 1-68 710 wants 6 after f.53 8-168 174 + three leaves (ff.128-130) before 1 1812 wants 11, 12, probably blank, after f.144 198 20 three (ff.153-5) 218 2212. Ff.1-142 are in a good large hand with a slight backward slope. Initials alternatively red and green, often with ornament of other colour. The large A of Ad to leuaui (f.1) contains also blue and the large P of Puer natus est (f.9v) also blue and brown. The large R of Resurrexi (f.63) has been cut out, together with smaller initials on ff.75 and 106. Wavy line fillers alternatively red and green.

The date of the material is Twelfth century, probably third quarter (ff.1-142), and fourteenth century (ff.145-175).