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ff. 1-291v: [Psalter and Prayers]: ff. 1-4v: Flyleaves with owners' notes; ff. 5-16v: Calendar with major feasts in red; ff. 17-33v: [f. 17, blank], Penitential psalms, gradual psalms, and litany; ff. 34-55v: Office of the Dead; ff. 56-69v: [f. 56, blank], Commendation of souls; ff. 70-77: Psalms of the Passion; f. 77v, blank; ff. 78-94: Prayers to Jesus, a suffrage of Christopher, prayer at Communion, a suffrage of Barbara, prayers to the crucified Christ, a prayer at the consecration; ff. 94v-95v, blank; ff. 96-102v: Suffrages of John the Baptist, Thomas of Canterbury, Erasmus, John the Evangelist, the Holy Face, and other prayers; ff. 103-112: [f. 103, blank], Prayers to the Virgin, including the Obsecro te; f. 112v, blank; ff. 113-269: [f. 113, blank], Psalter (ff. 270-271v, containing Pss. 5:8 though 7:17, are misbound and should follow f. 116); ff. 269r-v, 272-284v: Ferial canticles; Te deum laudamus...; Quicumque vult...salvus esse non poterit. Anno domini 1478. ff. 285-291v, blank Psalter and prayers written in Flanders and dated 1478 on f. 284v, and perhaps meant for export to England, given the English saints in the calendar; the office of the dead may also have been intended to follow the Sarum liturgical use. Span folios: ff. 1-291v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation for ff. 5-285 (ff. 1-4 and 286-291 are contemporary flyleaves), 1-2⁶ 3⁸(+1, f. 17) 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7²(singletons) 8¹⁰(+1, f. 56) 9²(singletons) 10⁸(+8) 11¹⁰ 12⁸(through f. 95) 13⁶(+5) 14⁸(+1 and 10, ff. 103 and 112) 15⁶(+1, f. 113; original central bifolium now bound in quire 35 as ff. 270-271) 16¹⁶(+17, f. 136) 17⁶(+1, f. 137) 18¹⁰ 19⁶(+1, f. 154) 20¹⁰ 21⁴(+1, f. 171) 22¹² 23⁴(+1, f. 188) 24¹² 25⁴ 26⁶(singletons) 27⁸(+1, f. 210) 28⁸ 29³(singletons?) 30²(+1, f. 230) 31¹⁴ 32²(+3) 33⁸(+1 and 2) 34⁸ 35⁸(+3 and 4, ff. 270-271) 36⁸. Catchwords faintly inscribed in the script of the text in the inner corners of ff. 53v, 66v, 87v. Ruled space, 75 x 44 mm; 18 long lines; no ruling visible up to f. 112v; thereafter ruled in pale red ink. Written by two people, both using a Bâtarde script: i, ff. 1-112; ii, ff. 114-284v. Decoration: Ten full page illuminations on inserted singletons, blank on the rectos, in semi-grisaille in a style derived from Vrelant, somewhat worn and flaked off. Historiated initials in white-patterned grey on cusped gold grounds with full borders. Major initials, 6- and 5-line, in white-patterned grey on gold grounds with grey and white trilobe leaf infilling; secondary initials, 2- and 1-line, and line fillers up to f. 112 in burnished gold on blue grounds with pink infilling, or vice versa; after f. 112 (the Psalter), secondary initials in gold on black grounds. Rubrics, only up to f. 112, in orange-tinged red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound by Gruel in red morocco, the doublures inlaid with the covers of an eighteenth century armorial calf binding. HM 1248. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. iii + ii + i + 291 + iii : parchment ; 74 x 110 mm.
On f. 1, the signature"Pedro micault" and a prayer; on ff. 1-5, birth and death notices in Flemish of the Micault family, 1581-1600; places mentioned are Brussels, Mechelen (Malines) and Bruges. On the back flyleaves, ff. 286-288, birth and death notices in French of the Micault family, 1510-1606; places mentioned are Brussels, Utrecht, Rome, Valladolid. Added in a space in the calendar, f. 5, in an 18th c. hand,"Ad numeros libris Christiani Geller Parochi in Lebach" (in the Saarland). Arms, late 18th c., of"Joannes D[ei] G[ratia] S[acri] R[omani] I[mperii] Princeps Salm Kyrburg Comes Rheni et Sylv." (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 233), whose lands were in Westphalia, from the covers of a previous binding, now as pastedowns. Belonged to William K. Bixby of St. Louis; his bookplate on f. i verso; acquired by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918.
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