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Add MS 61887
- Record Id:
- 032-001962142
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001962142
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x0000d0
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 61887
- Title:
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Calendar from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
- Scope & Content:
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Content:
Six folios from the Calendar of the Hungerford Hours.
The British Library holds two other leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 62106 (a leaf from None in the Hours of the Virgin) and Additional MS 72707 (a leaf from the Litany).
For further identified leaves from the Hungerford Hours, see Appendix 1 in Michael, 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention' (1990), pp. 94-96. More recent sales catalogues featuring leaves from the manuscript include: Sotheby’s Catalogue of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 7 December 1992, lot 8 (five leaves), and 5 December 1994, lot 5 (see Zeileis, Piu ridon le carte: Buchmalerei aus Mittelalter und Renaissance (2004), no. 144); Maggs, European Bulletin, 19 (1994), no. 48; Reiss & Sohn, Königstein im Taunus, 27 October 2009, lots 834 and 835; and Quaritch Catalogue 1396: Medieval Manuscripts (2010), no. 12 (Stanford, Stanford University Library M1769). In addition, there is a leaf held by the Lilly Library, Indiana University (see de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly (2010), no. 44).
Decoration:
24 roundels with representations of the labours of the month and the sign of the Zodiac for each month in colours with gold. 12 framed initials with foliate partial borders in colours with gold. Calendar entries in gold, blue, red or brown.
M. A. Michael associates the style of the roundels with those found in the Schloss Herdringen Psalter (Schloss Herdringen, Fürstenburgische Bibliothek MS 8), see 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention' (1990).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001962142
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001962142
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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6 parchment leaves.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_61887 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1335
- Date Range:
- c 1330
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 105 mm.
Foliation: ff. ii + 6 (ff. i and ii are the recto and verso of a piece of modern green card kept with the leaves).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Loose parchment folios mounted in boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, E. (?Lincoln or Ely).
Provenance:
The diocese of Lincoln or Ely: entries in the Calendar (Additional MS 61887) for St Guthlac on 11 April, marked 'festive in holandia' (Holland near Croyland, in the Lincoln diocese) (f. 2v) and Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln (b. 1135, d. 1200) (f. 6r).
?Sir John Pattishall (b. c. 1293, d. 1349): the Pattishall (?) coat of arms and a miniature with kneeling figures identified as the early owners on 2 leaves from the same manuscript now held in a private collection (see Michael, 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention' (1990), p. 39 plate 5, and p. 101 n. 10).
?Alice Pattishall (b. c. 1330, d. 1398), wife of Sir Thomas Wake of Blisworth (b. c. 1319, d. 1383): perhaps inherited from her father, Sir John Pattishall.
?Sir Philip Courtenay (b. c. 1400, d. 1463), great-grandson of Alice Pattishall and Sir Thomas Wake: perhaps inherited by him, and his wife Elizabeth Hungerford (b. c. 1400, d. 1476), sister of Robert Hungerford (b. c. 1400, d. 1459).
Robert Hungerford, 2nd Baron Hungerford (b. c. 1400, d. 1459) and his wife Margaret Botreaux (d. 1478): obits added to the Calendar in the 15th century (Additional MS 61887, ff. 1v, 3r).
Alan Thomas, writer and bookseller of Bournemouth (b. 1911, d. 1992): his catalogue no. 25, October 1970, item no. 18a; purchased by June O'Donnell (see Backhouse, 'An English Calendar' (1981), p. 8).
Mrs June O'Donnell of Guildford (d. 1979): her note on f. i of Additional MS 61887.
Alan Thomas, writer and bookseller of Bournemouth (b. 1911, d. 1992): bought back by him and sold to the British Library, November 1980.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Janet Backhouse, 'An English Calendar circa 1330', in Fine Books and Book Collecting: Books and Manuscripts Acquired from Alan G. Thomas and described by his customers on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, ed. by Christopher de Hamel and Richard. A. Linenthal (Leamington Spa: James Hall, 1981), pp. 8-10.
M. A. Michael, 'Destruction, Reconstruction, and Invention: The Hungerford Hours and English Manuscript Illumination in the Early Fourteenth Century', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Volume 2, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), pp. 33-108.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, New Series 1976-1980, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 1995), I, p. 305.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 986.
Christopher de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library (Bloomington, IN: Lilly Library 2010), p. 97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)