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ff. 1-183v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar; f. 13, blank; ff. 13v-17: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 17v-18, blank; ff. 18v-33v: Passion according to John and prayers to be said at various occasions with rubrics in English; f. 34, blank; ff. 34v-72v: Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum usum sarum with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, John the Evangelist, Lawrence, Stephen, Thomas of Canterbury (cancelled), Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Many Apostles, All Saints, for peace, and with the hours of the Cross worked in; ff. 72v-111v: Prayers, suffrages of James the Greater, James the Less, Sebastian, Christopher, George, Martin, Anthony abbot, Francis, Anne, Barbara, the 11,000 Virgins, Apollonia, All Saints, and prayers in English and in Latin (one dated in the rubric, 1485); f. 112, blank; ff. 112v-128v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany, with prayers; f. 129, blank; ff. 129v-149: Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 149-159: Commendation of souls; f. 159v, blank; ff. 160-167v: Psalms of the Passion; ff. 167v-177v: Psalter of St. Jerome; ff. 177v-183: Prayers including the ""rosarium beate marie virginis."". f. 183v, blank. Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in the early sixteenth century in Flanders for export to England; a number of feminine forms (ff. 31, 75v, 78v, 82, 84v, 92v, 93, 95v, 106v, 108v) indicate that it was intended for a woman. Span folios: ff. 1-183v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-2⁶ 3⁸(+1, f. 13 and 6, f. 18) 4⁸ 5⁴(-4) 6⁸(+1, f. 34 and 7, f. 40) 7⁸ 8⁶(+1, f. 52, and 5, f. 56 and 8, f. 59) 9⁶(+2, f. 62 and 5, f. 65 and 8, f. 68) 10-14⁸ 15⁸(+3, f. 112) 16⁸ 17⁸(+3, f. 129) 18-23⁸. Ruled space, 126 x 90 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand. Decoration: Twelve full page illuminations of mediocre quality on the verso of inserted singletons, blank on the recto, except for 6 lines of text on f. 40. Full borders on the miniature page and the facing text page usually of naturalistic flowers, birds and insects against a thin yellow-gold wash. Major initials, 5-line, as brown or dark green branches against variously colored grounds that on f. 35 in white-patterned blue with red and gold infilling against a brown and gold ground. Secondary initials, 2- and 1-line, in shaded white leaf patterns against a gold-decorated terra cotta ground; ribbon line fillers in the same colors. Rubrics in pale 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 the 19th century, by Riviere in black morocco, decorated with various tools, gold dots and circular inlays of light brown morocco; gilt edges. HM 1344. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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