MS. Gough Liturg. 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 18331

1. (fol. 3)

Calendar

2. (fol. 16)

Prayer for the living and the dead; prayers, among which devotions to the passion (fol. 19: O domine J.C. adoro te), the Five Wounds (fol. 22), the Seven Joys (fol. fol. 24v)

3. (fol. 26)

Commemorations and devotions to various saints (fol. 29) among whom Erasmus, Henry VI, John Shorne and St Wilgefortis or Uncommer; with other prayers.

4. (fol. 42)

Penitential and Gradual (fol. 50) Psalms with the litany (fol. 53)

5. (fol. 62)

Psalms of the passion

6. (fol. 69)

Pericopes from the gospel of St John

7. (fols. 70v-114r)

Office of the dead and commendation (fol. 99). Fols. 114v-115v blank.

Language(s): Latin, with English items and rubrics on fols. 16r, 19r, 21v (including a version of DIMEV 2840), 23v-24r, 26r, 29r-v, 114r

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

i + i (inserted miniature) + 113 + i leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 99 × 62 mm.

Dimensions (written): 56 × 40 mm.

Foliation: 1 (modern endleaf), 2 (inserted miniature), 3-115, 116 (modern endleaf)

Layout

16 long lines

Hand(s)

Textualis.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1100:

Miniatures: four coats of arms (fol. 15v), Trinity (Gnadenstuhl) (fol. 17r), the Five Wounds (fol. 22r); Virgin and Child (fol. 23v); St Erasmus (fol. 26r)

Borders.

3-line decorated initials.

2-line blue initials flourished in red.

Miniature of St. John the Baptist from a different MS. pasted in, fol. 2, 15th century, second half.

Binding

19th-century binding.

History

Origin: 15th century, late (after 1485 and before 1501) ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Written for the use of Sir John Iwardby and his wife: on fol. 16 is 'Pray for John' Jwardby and Sainche his wif, eldest doughter of Nicholas Carru [Carew] of Bedi[n]gton in Surre & oon of his heirris & for theire children frende & welwillers. & for the soule of Katerine late wif of the said John' doughter of Edwarde Neuil lord Burgeyne [Abergavenny] & for the soulis of Joh'n & Edwarde sones of the said Joh'n & Katerine & for the soulis of the faders moders aliaunces & frende of all them aboue rehersid and for all Cristen' (cf. fol. 70v-71r for a Latin version): with four elaborate coats of arms opposite. John Iwardby (Iwardeby) (born approximately 1440, died 1525), who had landed interests in Hampshire (Farley Chamberlayne) and especially Surrey, married (1) Katherine Neville (2) Sanchia Carew (3) Jane Agmonesham; the present manuscript evidently predates his third marriage and presumably also predates his knighthood in 1501 (Fitznells Cartulary, ed. C. A. F. Meekings and Philip Shearman, Surrey Record Society 26 (1968), p. cxi, 'John II'). Sanchia did not become an heir of Nicholas Carew (d. 1466) until the death of his son Nicholas in 1485 (History of Parliament 1422-1461, III.747).

Richard Gough, 1735-1809

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) by Matthew Holford from the following sources, with limited additional description and revised dating:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 1100

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 173

Summary Catalogue (1897)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 289

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 290

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (23 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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