Book of Hours, Prayers and hymns, Use of Sarum — 14th century, end; English, East Anglia (?)

Title

Book of Hours, Prayers and hymns, Use of Sarum — 14th century, end; English, East Anglia (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. liturg. g. 2

Place of origin

English, East Anglia (?)

Date

14th century, end

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 2 + 274 + 3 + ifol.

Decoration

Fine borders.

Fine initials. fol. 113r Type initial Subject Pink and blue initial on gold background, decorated with sprays of vine leaves and gold disks; head of Christ with cruciform halo (rubbed). Type border (upper, left and lower margins) Subject Border made of gold, pink and blue bars, decorated with foliage and gold disks (Penitential Psalms). Pink and blue initials on gold background and borders made of gold, pink and blue bars, decorated with sprays of vine leaves and gold disks on fols. 93v, 98r, 101r, 104r, 108v, 146v and 188r. Gold initials on pink and blue background with white arabesque and geometric designs; sprays of gold vine leaves extending into margins.

Blue and gold initials decorated with red and purple penwork.

Gold and blue line-endings.

Binding

Stamped leather on boards, injured. Original cover decorated with stamps associated with the Rood and Hunt Binder. Fragments of original binding applied to new cover. See Isabelle Pingree, ‘A Catalogue of the Bindings of the Fifteenth-Century Bookbinder Called the Rood and Hunt Binder’, The Library, 4.4 (2003), p. 387.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755