Calendar, Litany, Office of the Dead, and private devotions; English, 15th century, second quarter
MS. Lat. liturg. g. 8
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Description
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Title
Calendar, Litany, Office of the Dead, and private devotions; English, 15th century, second quarter
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. liturg. g. 8
Place of origin
English
Date
15th century, second quarter
Language
Middle English (1100-1500)
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
xvii + 63 leaves
Decoration
Illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink.
Larger initials with partial border fol. 25v, 36v, 41v
Binding
remains of 19th cent. calf binding
Acquisition
Bought 1963.
Provenance
The calendar, litany and prayer of All Saints (fol. 57) all show saints of Tynemouth Priory, a cell of St. Albans. The calendar and litany closely resemble MS. Gough liturg. 18 (S.C. 18332), which is also from Tynemouth.
'Dominus Robertus Blakeney huius libri est possessor', he was the last prior of Tynemouth
'Dom Wylliam ... habet'
Sir John Lawson of Brough (see Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. App. p. 255)
C. W. Dyson Perrins, his sale, Sotheby's, 11 April 1961, lot 123
Dismembered after the sale: when the MS. was sold it contained a French 14th cent. Psalter between the calendar and the litany. Photographs of the pages with historiated initials are kept with the manuscript. In MS. Gough liturg. 18 the calendar and litany were added in the 15th cent. to a 14th cent. Psalter.
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