(1) Calendar of Sarum use. Among the saints omitted is St John of Beverley (see below); for later additions, including three obits, see further below. ff. 1-6b.
43473. HOURS, etc., in Latin, except where otherwise stated. Vellum; ff. ii + 130. 228 mm. x 150 mm. Circ. 1413-1416 (in the calendar the obit of Henry IV, 20 Mar. 1413, is entered at f. 2 in the original hand, but St John of Beverley, canonised in 1416, is omitted). Written in England. Gatherings mostly of 8 leaves (i6, v6 [I cancelled], Vii4, ix6, xiv4, xv8 [wants I; 5 cancelled], xvi4 [3 cancelled], xix8 [wants 8]), sometimes with catchwords. Large decorative initials and complete or part...
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Liturgies LATIN: Hours of Sarum use: early 15th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings: Horae: historiated initial, bar borders and initials: early 15th cent. Rivière and Son; bookbinders: Bound: 20th cent. Bindings: Niger morocco, blind-tooled, by Rivière and Son: 20th cent. includes: f. 1 ...
(2) Hours of the Virgin, of Sarum use, followed severally by the little hours of the Cross. Added at f. 35 b, in a 15th-16th cent. hand, after the Five Joys of the Virgin, is the prose 'Gaude virgo mater Christi', cf. Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum, i, no. 7O17; A. Wilmart, Auteurs Spiritue...
(3) Devotion against thunderstorms revealed, according to the rubric, to St Edward the Confessor by the Holy Ghost. For another copy in Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS. lat. 1328, see V. Leroquais, Les Livres d'Heures, i, p. 149. ff. 47-47 b.
(4) Seven penitential and fifteen gradual psalms, followed by a litany and prayers as for Monday in Lent in the Sarum breviary (ed. F. Procter and C. Wordsworth, ii, coll. 250-255). Of the first twelve gradual psalms only the opening words are given. ff. 48-61 b.
(7) Three of the usual Gospel lessons, in the unusual order Matthew, Mark, John. A leaf with the first words of the lesson from Matthew, and presumably the whole of that from Luke, is wanting at the beginning. ff. 98-100.
(9) Prayers, viz.:-(a) 'Oratio sancti Gregorii, quam si quis in die cantauerit diabolus nec malus homo corpus eius nec animam nocebit', beg. 'Domine exaudi orationem meam quia iam cognosce'. Printed, from an earlier version in MS. Vat. Regin. 12, by A. Wilmart, 'The Prayers of the Bury Psalter',...