Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, A peculiar Hour-service de Sancto Spiritu, A Calendar, originally pure Sarum, but modified by late 15th century Bridgettine and other entries, The Hours, varying according to the season (see fols. 53, 58v, etc.), with the Hours of the Cross and of the Compassion of the Virgin worked in at fols. 32v, 33, etc., and with leaves wanting before fols. 14, 63, Penitential Psalms with litany, Office for the Dead, Commendatio Animarum — 14th century, end; England

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, A peculiar Hour-service de Sancto Spiritu, A Calendar, originally pure Sarum, but modified by late 15th century Bridgettine and other entries, The Hours, varying according to the season (see fols. 53, 58v, etc.), with the Hours of the Cross and of the Compassion of the Virgin worked in at fols. 32v, 33, etc., and with leaves wanting before fols. 14, 63, Penitential Psalms with litany, Office for the Dead, Commendatio Animarum — 14th century, end; England

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 62

Place of origin

England

Date

14th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 153 (2 + 153 + i ) leaves

Decoration

Fine borders

Initials

Binding

Stamped red sheepskin on boards, '+IHESVS MARIA' on a large stamp used twice on each side, with clasp fittings (clasp lost), about 1500 CE, London work, worm-eaten and worn.

Acquisition

He apparently presented the manuscript (if it can represent the 'Rituale' of the Benefactors' Register) to the Bodleian in 1602.

Provenance

At fol. i, is 'Obitus Johannis Boteler patris Henrici Boteler penultimo die Februari, anno regni regis Edwardi iiij octavo [1468/9 CE] etatis vt dixit iiijxx ix & parte x anni'.

Syon Abbey: liturgical evidence (see above).

Exeter, Franciscan convent: an obit in the calendar of about 1500 CE ('In festo sancte Margaretæ. Obitus domini Johannis Bridgeman et dominæ Aliciæ consortis, benefactorum nostri ordinis precipuorum ...' fol. 11) is noted by John Barcham to refer to the Friars Minor of Exeter. To them the volume must have come from the Bridgettines (presumably of Isleworth in Middlesex).

Finally John Barcham, of Exeter, Fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, who owned the book in 1597, annotated the calendar so as to show the pre-Reformation feasts, obits, etc. of his college