MS. Gough Liturg. 9
Summary Catalogue no.: 18335
Contents
Carthusian-Sarum calendar (fol. 2) with added obits; feast of the relics on 7 November.
Office of the Virgin (fol. 8) with the Hours of the Cross worked in
At Lauds a long series of commemorations among which those of St Wenefrid (fol. 35v), St Edmund, king and martyr (fol. 36), and St Clement (fol. 36v)
Troped Salve regina (fol. 61)
Five Joys (fol. 62v: Gaude virgo; fol. 63v: Primum fuit gaudium cum virgo vidisti)
Prose: Salve mundi domina (fol. 65v) and commemorations (fol. 66v)
Penitential (fol. 68v) and Gradual (fol. 79v) Psalms
Litany (fol. 82v) with a long series of female saints
Office of the dead (fol. 93v) and commendation (fol. 126v)
Psalter of St Jerome with preface (fol. 145)
Psalms of the passion (fol. 164v)
Seven Joys (fol. 173: Gaude flore virginali)
Illumina oculos (fol. 174v)
Prayer (fol. 177: Domine deus verus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus)
Prose: Veni creator (fol. 182v)
Fifteen O's (fol. 183v)
Prayers, among which the O intemerata (fol. 195v), prayers to the angels (fol. 199, 259v) and various saints (fol. 201v, 257, 265), devotion of the Seven Words (fol. 226)
Litany of the Virgin (fol. 273: Missus est angelus; fol. 279: Kyrie eleison), etc.
Physical Description
Layout
15 long lines.
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 887, pl. LXXXIV:
Good miniatures (fols. 127, 146v, 176v, 242).
Good borders.
Good initials.
Binding
Medieval binding: leather on boards, with traces of clasps.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Perhaps written for a lady (fols. 180v, 222, 259) but the male forms of address also occur (196v, 210v, 223).
'Thys boke ys Jone Bruyn of Kent': probably Joan (d. 1462), wife of Richard Bruyn, daughter of John Rickhill (d. 1431) and grand-daughter of Sir William Rickhill (d. 1407). Obits in the calendar of the Bruyn family include Joan Brewyn, 16 June 2 Edw. IV (1462); Richard Bruyn, 14 Aug.; Cecily Bruyn, 6 Dec.; obits of the Rickhill family include John (4 April), William, knight (20 June), John (16 Sept.), Nicholas (9 Dec.); also the obit of William Lee, Oct. 31, probably the man (d. 1442) who was a kinsman of Richard Bruyn (for William Lee, Richard Bruyn and John Rickhill see the entries in History of Parliament). Also obits of 'Margarete Knyght' (Dec. 6), 'Emmote Malerye' (Dec. 14).
Obit (Jan. 8) of 'Margarete Pympe abbatisse anno regni regis Ricardi tercij primo' (1484), perhaps abbess of Malling (the only nunnery in Kent with an abbess): cf. 'Margaret' [no surname] recorded as abbess of Malling in 1481, 1483, no longer abbess in Michaelmas 1484 (Heads of Religious Houses, Supplement (2018) p. 333). Joan Bruyn's will (TNA: PROB 11/5/30, dated 14 June 1462) includes various bequests to Malling, although no books are mentioned; the present volume was tentatively associated with Malling by the Summary Catalogue and Pächt and Alexander, but was not listed in MLGB.
'Elesabeth Greenfeild her book' (about A.D. 1700)
'Wm. Herbert, 1771': William Herbert, 1718-1795.
Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-05: Description revised to incorporate all information from printed catalogues.