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ff. 1-187v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar; ff. 7-84v: Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use, missing the illuminated opening leaves before ff. 7, 22, 55, 65, 69 and 77, with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Edmund king and martyr, Lawrence, Stephen, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, and for peace; ff. 85-118v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany; ff. 119-184v: Office of the Dead, Sarum use (one leaf missing before f. 131 with loss of text); ff. 185-186: [added, 14th/15th c.] St. Gregory's Trental; f. 186v: [added, 14th/15th c., in a different hand from above]: Advowsons of 35 churches mainly in Somersetshire and in Devonshire; f. 187: [added, early 14th c.] Prophecy of the Lily, the Lion and the Son of Man; f. 187v: [added, early 14th c., in the same hand as the prophecy]: Reasons for the deposition of anti-Pope John XXIII. Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in England in the first half of the fourteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-187v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2¹²(-1) 3¹²(-5) 4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6¹²(-9, before f. 55) 7¹²(-8, before f. 65) 8¹²(-1, before f. 69 and -10, before f. 77) 9⁶(through f. 84) 10-11¹² 12¹⁰(through f. 118) 13¹² 14¹²(-1, before f. 131) 15-17¹² 18⁸(through f. 185; ff. 186-187, contemporary flyleaves). Catchwords in the script of the text (ff. 38v, 165v) or in a small noting hand (17v, 28v, 141v) and usually covered by the decoration. Leaf signatures, when present, in varying systems, ff. 32-33, slashes (roman numerals?) in the far right corner; ff. 58-63, letter of the alphabet and roman numerals; ff. 97-102, roman numerals within a space formed by the ruling; ff. 131-135, roman numerals in the center lower margin. Ruled space, 113 x 72 mm; 12 long lines, with complex ruling which includes horizontal rules for the text, bounding lines around the text space, a narrow ruled strip in the 3 outer margins and additional rules at the outer edge of all 3 outer margins; all ruling, both horizontal and vertical, is formed of 2 parallel lines, pink and green. Pricking in the intersections of the marginal strips, but no longer present in the outer margins. Written in a gothic book hand, set between the rules. Decoration: Five historiated initials survive (presumably of an original 11), to some extent mutilated by effacing and by slashing with a knife. In the calendar, the monthly occupations and the signs of the zodiac. 2-line initials in white-decorated blue or pink on grounds of the other color, filled with colored trilobe leaves on a gold ground. 1-line initials in gold against blue or pink grounds and infilling of the other color. Ribbon line fillers in blue, pink, gold and orange-tinged red decorated with geometric designs, trilobe leaves or grotesques. The borders in the calendar consist of wide bands broken by medallions of faces in the outer border, and of the monthly occupation and signs of the zodiac in the lower margin; birds perch along the cusping of the outer border, which terminates in a grotesque in the upper right corner; one coat of arms in each lower border of the calendar. Rubrics in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009. 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 in old black leather over bevelled wooden boards. HM 1346. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours England 14th century. (aat) Historiated initials England 14th century. (aat) Grotesques England 14th century. (aat) Coats of arms England 14th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
It has been suggested that the "count de D." on f. 186v is to be identified with Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire (d. 1419) (See J. Backhouse, The Madresfield Hours (The Roxburghe Club, 1975), especially Appendix, pp. 30-33). On the front pastedown, a square label bearing, within a blue circle, the pressmark "A. III. 72." Quaritch Gen. Cat. (1880) n. 8557; Howell Wills sale, London, 1894, n. 375 to Quaritch. Quaritch catalogues, 144 (1894) n. 33; 149 (1895) n. 11; 154 (1895) n. 167; 193 (1899) n. 173; 211 (1902) n. 62. Belonged to George Clifford Thomas (1839-1909); his Catalogue (Philadelphia 1907) p. 33.
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