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ff. 1-168v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 7-9v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit [f. 10r-v, blank]; ff. 11-12v: prayer to the Trinity; ff. 13-23v: Suffrages of John the Baptist, Thomas of Canterbury, George, Christopher, Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Barbara; ff. 24-30: Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; f. 30v, coat of arms; ff. 31-68v: Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use; suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Stephen, Lawrence, Thomas of Canterbury, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, for peace; short hours of the Cross worked in from lauds to compline; ff. 68v-80v: farcing of the Salve Regina, O Intemerata, Obsecro te, and other prayers; ff. 81-88v: prayers; ff. 89-105v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms (the first 12 by cue only), and a long litany, including ""Eswarde,"" Oswald, Alan, Quentin, Lambert, ""Wallepaxde"" among the martyrs; Remigius, Vedast, Bavo, Audoenus, Dunstan, Philibert, Leonard, Botulph, Amand among the confessors; Bridget, Christina, Genevieve, Sexburga, Milburga, Osyth, Radegundis, Anastasia among the virgins; ff. 106-127v: Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 128-140v: Commendation of souls; ff. 141-145v: Psalms of the Passion; ff. 145v-158v: psalter of St. Jerome [ff. 159-160v, blank]; ff. 161-168: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, and pericopes of the Gospels [f. 168v, ruled, but blank]. Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders or northern France for export to England. Span folios: ff. 1-168v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2⁴ 3-4⁸ 5⁴(through f. 30) 6-12⁸ 13²(through f. 88) 14-22⁸(through f. 160) 23⁸. One catchword survives in a cursive script in the lower margin of f. 96v; quires and leaves signed in letters and roman numerals with a cross marking the first folio in the second half of the quire. Ruled space, 110 x 74 mm; 19 long lines ruled in pale red ink; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins. Written in a gothic book hand. Decoration: Twenty-seven large miniatures, in the style of the Master of the Gold Scrolls. Major initials, 4-line, in white-patterned blue or pink with trilobe leaf infilling against a cusped gold ground, or ground of the other color with the infilling only in gold; 2-line initials in gold against parted pink and blue grounds with sprays of a few gold leaves and a flower at either end; 1-line initials in blue with red flourishing or in gold with black; initials within the text washed in yellow. Jigsaw line fillers in red and blue with some gold decoration. Rubrics in red. On f. ii verso, a rectangle of cleaner parchment with holes around it, as though something (a pilgrim's badge?) had once been attached, 72 x 55 mm. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/11/2009. 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 Chambolle-Duru, in brown morocco with gilt tooling in a Grolieresque design; morocco doublures; gilt edges; brown morocco slipcase. HM 1125. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. i + iii + 168 + iii + i : parchment ; 145 x 212 mm.
A coat of arms (16th century?) has been added on f. 30v; per pale 1 azure a chevron or between three dogs' heads sable langued and collared gules; 2 quarterly, 1 and 4 azure three fish in a bend proper, 2 and 3 argent three escallops gules; above the arms, a stoat proper; below them, a fish or; the whole encircled by a chapelet of carnations. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Cat. (1909) pp. 34-36; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2352 with plate of f. 69 to G. D. Smith. Precise date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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