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1. Add MS 49999

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Title:
Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1240
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Add MS 50000

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Title:
Psalter (the 'Oscott Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Psalter in Latin, with a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms in Anglo-Norman French. A leaf excised from this Psalter is now Add. MS 54215 (see Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including the following saints: Milburga (23 February), Oswald (2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1265-1270
Extent:

Parchment codex.

3. Add MS 50001

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 50005

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Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Dutch. The text in the manuscript was completed by three hands: - Hand 1, of the early fifteenth century, who completed the bulk of the manuscript (ff. 8-82v, 95-96v, 103r-104v, 110r-111v, 115r-116v, 121r-122v, 125r-126v, 132r-132v, 134r, 145r-159v). - Hand 2, a slightly later...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1420
Extent:
1 item