HOURS, &c., in Latin. Contents:-(1) Calendar, in French: SS. Lupus, Giles, Denis, and Martin in gold. f 1 ;-(2) The four Gospel-lessons. f. 13 (two pairs of leaves, ff. 15-18 and 16-17, misbound ; proper order, ff. 16, 15, 18, 17);- (3) ' Obsecro te 'and ' 0 intemerata'. ff. 17 b, 19, 22;-(4...
HOURS, &c., in Latin. Contents :(i) Calendar, with many French saints, including Eutropius, Bishop [of Saintes] (Apr. 30), and Ausonius, Bishop [of Angoulême] (May 22), both in blue, besides several others connected with S.W. France; also with 'Dedicatio eclesie Engolism' [Angoulême] in blue...
HOURS, &C., in Latin, apparently of French Benedictine use of the congregation of Tiron (see below, artt. 2, 3, 6, 7). Contents:-(i) Hours of the Virgin. f. 1;(2) 'Suffragia per totum annum dicenda post laudes et vesperas': commemorations of the Trinity, Cross, S. Benedict, All Saints, and '...
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
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Contents: ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany. Decoration: The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris...
'PRECATIONES, seu meditationes . . . ex quibusdam piis scriptoribus per ... D. Catharinam Anglie, Francie, Hibernieque Reginam collecte; et per D. Elizabetam ex anglico conuerse' : the 'Prayers and Meditations' of Queen Katharine Parr (see Royal MS. 7 D. ix), translated into Latin, French, and I...
PROPER LESSONS from the Old Testament for Sundays and Holydays throughout the year, followed (f. 79) by the New Testament; written in shorthand, according to the system of James Weston, 1727. Paper; ff. i+199. 7 in. x 41/4 in . XVIII cent. Book-plate of P[hilip A[ugusts] Hanrott. Belonged (see f...
'THE TRIAL OF FAITH; or Afflictions sanctified: with the Privileges of Believers and the Glory of the Church; taken from the sure testimony of the Holy Scriptures. By James Illingworth, D. D., Lecturer of St. Alphage, London Wall.' Holograph. The title-page is dated 20 Apr. 1789, but the author ...
LETTER to Samuel Johnson, LL.D., on the subject of a future state; by John Taylor, LL.D., of Ashbourne, Prebendary of Westminster (d. 1788). Preceded (f. 1) by twelve lines of verse 'to the Reverend Dr. Taylor On his Letter to Dr. Johnson', by Brooke Boothby [6th Bart., 1789]; and followed (ff 3...