MS. Holkham misc. 41
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
1. (p. 1)
Prayers and meditations on the life and death of Christ Incipit: Religious sustir for as mechil as ye have desirid and preyed me divers tymes
Explicit: God yeve us love grace in althing to do as it is most to his worschep and pleasing
There follow in red four lines beginning:
Incipit: Syke and sorwe deeply
Language(s): Middle English
2. (p. 99)
, De remediis contra temptaciones (expanded English translation of the third recension; cf. M. B. Hackett in Medieval studies presented to Aubrey Gwynne (Dublin, 1961), 341 and 346) Rubric: Consolatio anime
Incipit: Oure merciful lord god chastisith his children
Pr. by Horstmann, Richard Rolle of Hampole and his followers (London, 1896) II, 106–23.
Language(s): Middle English
Physical Description
Secundo Folio: whanne ye
Form: codex
Support: Parchment, badly eaten by mould.
Extent: ii (paper) + 97 (i.e. 194 pp.) + ii (paper)
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 105 mm.
(severely cropped) Dimensions (ruled): 125–30 × 75–80 mm.
Foliation: Paginated in late 18th- or early 19th-century pencil, prior to binding, some pages numbered in modern pencil: i-iv, 1–198, usually only on rectos.
Collation
Too tightly bound for collation.
Layout
16 lines
Hand(s)
Written in a fine gothic formal liturgical bookhand, with 16 lines of text per page. Ruled in red.
Decoration
Large initials in red, pink, green and blue on gold grounds, each with a partial border of leaf design, on pages 1, 6, 99, the rest blue with red flourishes. (Pächt and Alexander iii, 1044)
Binding
Black polished leather; the spine lettered in gilt 'PASSION | OF | CHRIST'.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Bookplate of THOMAS WILLIAM COKE; formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 67.
Record Sources
Draft description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.