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Summary Catalogue no.: 3589

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
(fol. 1)

Calendar

(fol. 7)
Rubric: Quindecim orationes

The 15 Oes

(fol. 13)
Rubric: Hore beate Marie Virginis ‘secundum usum Anglie’ with the Hours of the Cross worked in

On fol. 13 is an added prayer for 'michi famule tue Elizabeth'

(fol. 41)

Troped Salve regina

(fol. 43)

Penitential and Gradual (fol. 49) Psalms with the litany (fol. 51)

(fol. 55)
Rubric: Vigilie Mortuorum
(fol. 74)
Rubric: Commendaciones animarum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
3 + 84 + 5 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 172 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 67 mm.

Layout

20 long lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 319. Possibly executed in England.

Good borders

Good initials

Binding

Stamped leather on boards, with figures of St John Baptist and St Barbara with mottoes, clasps lost, early 16th century / c. 1500

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Netherlands

Provenance and Acquisition

'John Hankinson Mercer at the Queenes Armes Pater noster' [Row] London (fol. 86), 16th century

Sir John Thomson (fol. 86), 16th century

Fol. 85: John William Thomas G⟨e⟩orge Timothe (?)

'Ann Collins 1625 (?)' (fol. iii)

A note dated 1623 with motto (?) Vincit qui patitur (fol. 87v).

Sir Thomas Herbert

Given by him in 1666.

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 319
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 195
Summary Catalogue (1937)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 693
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 694

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-03-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)