Description | The ornamental initial letters are in blue with lace work and flourishes in red ink, extending down the columns. The two leaves were evidently used as a cover for documents, for there is a note at the foot of one page, "Wills proved in the Archdeaconry of Stowe A.D. 1572, 1573 and 1574". On the other page, a bond from Thomas Tompsonne of Lincoln, tailor to Thomas Taillor of the same is written at the foot.
Note by Professor Neil Ker (1908-1982), scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature, author of 'Medieval manuscripts in British Libraries': this is possibly a missal rather than a breviary. If so the text may be found in Wickham Lege's 'The Sarum Missal', 1861-1863.
Professor Ker also noted 'It looks rather as if all this bundle of binding fragments [JC/14/28-35], which came from the wrappers of the late 16th century, are archidiconal records of Lincoln Cathedral. At least that is certainly the origin of JC/14/28 (Wills proved in the Archdeaconry of Stowe) and JC/14/31 was also the wrapper of a volume of wills proved. JC/14/29 bears a date 1596. |