Ripon, Cathedral Library, MS. Frag. 2 Deposited in Leeds University Library, Brotherton Library Fragments of a Hymnal ("Brotherton Fragments")

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440. Ripon, Cathedral Library, MS. Frag. 2

Deposited in Leeds University Library, Brotherton Library

Fragments of a Hymnal ("Brotherton Fragments")

[Ker 372, Gneuss 696]

HISTORY: Two A-S fragments from an l lc hymnal, provenance unknown. Along with other unrelated items, they were used as padding in the binding of a copy of Virgil's Eclogues (Antwerp, 1543; Ripon Library shelfmark xiii. D. 39), once owned by 'Ant[ony] Higgin; whose name appears on the title-page. Housed in the Brotherton Library, Leeds University Library. "The position of Hy 64 before Hy 62 and the abbreviation of the text of Hy 73 would agree with a hymnal of the Winchester type. The doxology of Hy 44 agrees with C [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 391 (57)], the hymnal from Worcester" (Milfull 1996: 56; cf. Gneuss 1968: 103). In 1994, when this manuscript was first examined for the project by Phillip Pulsiano, the A-S fragments were still attached to the other non-A-S binding elements as an ensemble, but the elements have since been detached; they are all still kept together, loose, in a single folder. The photos show the former arrangement.