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Description
ff. 1-103v. Book of Hours, use of Sarum. Latin; English. On ff. 1-6v, calendar; ff. 7-35v, Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use with suffrages after lauds; f. 36r-v, added tale in English on the efficacy of saying Ps. 129; ff. 37-43, Penitential psalms; ff. 43-45, Gradual psalms mainly by cue; ff. 45-49v, Litany; ff. 50-68, Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 68-78v, Commendation of Souls; ff. 87v-93v, Fifteen Oes; ff. 93v-103v, prayers; f. 103v and f. v, added maxims in English, attributed to Solomon. Title supplied from printed catalog Support: Parchment. Script: Formal gothic script. Layout: 19 long lines, ruled in brown ink, the top two and bottom two horizontals extending the full width of the page, the single vertical lines extending the full height of the page. Music: On ff. v verso - vi recto, music on 4-line staves. Span folios: ff. 1-103v. Other Decoration: Seven-line initials, enclosing semi-naturalistic or stylized foliage and flowers, on a gold ground, with a four-sided border, at the start of three major texts (ff. 7, 37, 68); similar seven-line initials but with a three-sided border to vespers, the Psalms of the Passion, and the 15 Oes (ff. 29v, 79, 87v); similar six-line initials, with a two-sided border, at the start of the remaining hours of the Virgin. Assigned Date: s. XV2/4. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009. Bound in s. XVI(?) dark green velvet over beech(?) boards; sewn on three (original?) slit and twisted alum-tawed thongs; the first and last flyleaves (former pastedowns) with marks of former lacings in "V I" formation; each cover with numerous nails, and impressed traces of corner-pieces, a central boss, and a clasp. HM 64538. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours England 15th century. (aat) Velvet bindings (Binding) 16th century. (rbgenr) Decorated initials England 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Written in England; the saints in the calendar suggest a Worcester connection. English texts added soon afterwards; inscribed, s. XV, with the names "hubert / han[...] [or har...?]" (f. i), "Jefris"(? or Joh(an)nis) (inner face of back board), "Heywod" in calligraphic script (f. vi verso); traces of rectangular and circular/polygonal sewn-in devotional images (?) (ff. iv verso, vii verso); flyleaves with various pen-trials; references to popes and Thomas Becket erased probably in s. XVImed. Inscribed, s. XVIII, "Sam: Denton" (f. i); the only man of this name listed by Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, died in 1626, but Emden, Alumni Oxonienses, lists a watchmaker who was made privilegiatus in 1774. Thomas Kerrich (1748-1828), artist, antiquary, president of Magdalen College, Cambridge (1789-1796), and Cambridge University Librarian (on whom see ODNB); inscribed "T. Kerrich / M.[agdalene] C.[ollege] C.[ambridge] / 1792" (f. ii, and similarly on f. iii). Inscribed in pencil, s. XX, "Early XV sæc. / c. 1430" (f. i) and "Book of Hours / 1430" (inner face of front board). Sold at Sotheby's, July 6, 2000, lot 74, bought by Fogg. Sam Fogg Rare Books Ltd, London, with his stock number "8328" (inner face of the front board).
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