The LITMSS.DBF file is a database of manuscripts owned or written
in Anglo-Saxon England prior to 1100, which contain material from
the liturgy, either monastic, eucharistic or penitential. It has
been designed on a FoxBASE platform with dBASE-compatible files.
Therefore you may import the LITMSS.DBF into any program which
produces dBASE-compatible files. LITMSS.DBF is maintained and owned
by Sarah Larratt Keefer. Any comments, suggestions or queries
should be addressed to skeefer@trentu.ca.

*LITMSS.DBF is not yet in its final form, and is not yet wholly
complete.

In its present form it contains 321 records in 17 fields. These are
as follows:

MS_NAME = the manuscript name as it stands in its relevant
catalogue, eg Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41;

CONTEXT_1 = the primary type of collection represented by the
manuscript, eg homiliary;

DATE = as complete information as possible about the date of the
manuscript;

PROVENANCE = as complete information as possible about the
provenance, and, where possible, the origin of the manuscript;

NEUMS = the presence (YES) or absence (NO) of neums in the
manuscript;

PIECE_LANG = the language (OLD ENGLISH, LATIN, LATIN AND OLD
ENGLISH) in which the liturgical elements of the manuscript are
preserved;

REVEL_1 = the primarily relevance to the D.I.L.S. project of the
liturgical material in this manuscript, i.e. cantica, prayers;

GNEUSS_NO = the classification number assigned by Gneuss in his
"Preliminary Handlist";

CAMERON_NO = the classification letter and number assigned by
Cameron and used by the D.O.E. project of Toronto;

KER_NO = the classification number assigned by Ker to manuscripts
containing Anglo-Saxon material;

GNEUSS_LIT = the classification letter and number assigned by
Gneuss in his list of liturgical books in the Clemoes Festschrift
(1985);

OTHER_CLS = any other important classification information;

MEMO = information concerning editions, work in progress, etc;

CONTEXT_2 = the secondary context of manuscript, used primarily for
miscellanies (will often read SEE CONTEXT_1);

CONTEXT_3 = the tertiary context of manuscript, used primarily for
miscellanies (will often read SEE CONTEXT_1);

CONDITION = the condition of manuscript, eg complete, fragmentary,
separated;

RELEV_2 = the secondary relevance to the D.I.L.S. project of the
liturgical material in this manuscript, used primarily for
miscellanies (will often read SEE RELEV_1).