Book of Hours, Use of Sarum — c. 1400; English
MS. Lat. liturg. f. 27
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum — c. 1400; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. liturg. f. 27
Place of origin
English
Date
c. 1400
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment, rather worn and dirty
Physical extent
i (modern paper) + 8 + i (modern paper) leaves.Cropped by the binder.
Decoration
Good borders, initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 776)
Each hour with a four-line (three-line in None) foliate initial in colours on a gold ground; that to Prime (fol. 1r) with foliate extensions framing the text on all four sides; the others with similar three-sided borders (fols. 4v, 6v, 8v).
Psalms etc. with a two-line initial in gold with purple penwork.
Verses with one-line initials in blue with red penwork.
Rubrics in deep red, capitals touched with yellow wash.
Binding
Bound in 20th-cent. pasteboards covered with marbled paper.
Acquisition
Given in 1940. Formerly MS. Lat. th. f. 12.
Provenance
Inscribed in a poor 16th(?) cent. English hand: 'This is mi lord & god' (fol. 3v, bottom margin, upside-down).
J. W. H. Hammond
Given to A. G. Little
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