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MS. Gough Liturg. 6

Summary Catalogue no.: 18342

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

(fol. 1)

Calendar

(fol. 7)

Office of the Virgin with the Hours of the Cross worked in

(fol. 34)

Penitential and Gradual (fol. 41v) Psalms with the litany (fol. 47v)

(fol. 54)

Added prayer

(fol. 58)

Office of the dead and commendation (fol. 85)

(fol. 97)

Psalter of St Jerome

Additions: O intemerata (fol. 113) and a prayer: Concedo michi quero omnip. et mis. deus ea que tibi placita sunt (fol. 114).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

115 + 1 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 150 mm.

Dimensions (written): 127 × 76 mm.

Condition

Leaves missing after fols. 6, 28, 34, 57, 84 (at least)

Layout

20 long lines

Hand(s)

Textualis.

Decoration

By Hermann Scheerre or a close follower. Pächt and Alexander iii. 812, pl. LXXVIII:

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials. Historiated initials and borders at the beginning of the Hours of the Lady office and on fol. 85; the others are missing.

Fine other initials.

Binding

Medieval (?) boards and sewing, with later covering.

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Gough, 1735-1809

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Record Sources

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

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 812

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 191

Summary Catalogue (1897)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 293

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (16 images from 35mm slides)

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