Book of Hours, Use of Sarum — 15th century, third quarter; English and Flemish
MS. Wood C. 12
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum — 15th century, third quarter; English and Flemish
Shelfmark
MS. Wood C. 12
Place of origin
English and Flemish
Date
15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
6 + 149 + 1 fol.
Decoration
Good Flemish border.
Good Flemish initials. Written in England. (Pächt and Alexander i. 347)
Binding
Contemporary white leather on boards rebacked.
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Title
The Hours of the Virgin Mary
Shelfmark
MS. Wood C. 12
Summary
The Hours of the Virgin Mary (wanting Matins), in Latin, preceded by (p. i) a calendar according to the Sarum use with additions, of which the double occurrence of st. Helen and the Translation of st. Hugh are noticeable, and (p. 1) memoriae and (p. 21) private devotions. The Hours of the Holy Spirit, Trinity, and Cross are worked in after Lauds, and followed by prayers to:
The Virgin (p. 104)
The Septem gaudia (p. 124)
Prayers 'ad imaginem Christi Crucifixi' (p. 132)
'Oracio venerabilis Bede', etc. (p. 140)
The seven penitential psalms (p. 150)
The fifteen gradual psalms (p. 166)
The litany with stt. Swithin and Birinus among the confessors (p. 170)
'Vigilie mortuorum' (p. 184)
'Commendationes animarum' (p. 232)
'Psalmi de passione' (p. 260)
Psalter of st. Jerome (p. 272)
Wood has added to the calendar births, deaths, and marriages of four generations of his family.
Labelled '109'
Date
Written in the 15th century in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, binding, contemporary white leather on boards rebacked, with illuminations
Physical extent
301 pages
Custodial history
'Liber Antonii Woode Coll: Mert quem a Josepho Godwin in vico Murilegorum [i.e. Catte street] Oxon' bibliopola (et ille ab executoribus Caroli Tucker LL Dris Abendonensis nuper defuncti) emit Maii iv A.D. MDClxi.'
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Collection contents
MSS. Wood: Wood's antiquarian manuscripts
The Hours of the Virgin Mary
