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MS. e Mus. 188

Summary Catalogue no.: 3601

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

(fol. 1)

Calendar, from Norwich

Sept. 24 'Dedicacio ecclesie Norwicensis .ix.lect. celebratur' in red

Several times it has 'Non Sarum, set synodus Norwicensis'

St Thomas (Dec. 29) and his octave are not erased

(fol. 7)

Horae beatae Mariae Virginis secundum usum Sarum, adapted for Norwich

(fol. 20v)

Troped Salve regina

(fol. 21)

Commemoration of the dead

(fol. 21v)

Penitential psalms and Gradual (fol. 25) Psalms with the litany (fol. 26), followed (fol. 28) by invocation 'Ut archipresulem nostrum'

(fol. 30)

Office for the Dead

(fol. 44v)

Commendatio animarum

(fol. 50)

Veni creator

(fol. 50v)

Added pericopes of the gospels of St Mark and St John.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

1 + 51 + 1 + 1 fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.

Dimensions (written): 154 × 100 mm.

Catchword: f. 46v, ?profile head

Layout

27 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 786

Good borders. f. 16v, daisy buds

Good initials. Capital: f. 7, profile head

Flourished initials: fols 8v, 10v, 11v, 12, etc.

Binding

Red sheepskin (?) on bevelled boards, clasp lost, contemporary

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; England diocese of Norwich (Pächt and Alexander iii. 786)

Provenance and Acquisition

'En bon tans T.H.', i.e. sir T. Herbert, who gave the manuscript to the Library in 1666

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the following sources:

An Index of Images in English Manuscripts... Bodleian Library, Oxford. III. No. 779

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 786

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 151

Summary Catalogue (1937)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 696

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 697

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-03-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in printed catalogues.

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges