Add MS 43473/1-11

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 partial borders in gold and colours at the beginnings of the principal sections of the MS.; headings in red, initials in gold and colours, and line-endings in gold throughout. An initial at f. 7 contains a crude miniature of the Presentataion. Added in the lower margin of each page in the Calendar (ff. I-6b) are I5th-cent. notes in English on the significance of thunder in the various months. Also added in the Calendar are the following obits:-(a) 20 jan., 'Obitus Thome Grene militis domini de Norton [Green's Norton, co. Northt.] qui obiit anno domini mcccel... [end illegible]',

f. 1;-(b) 3 Feb., 'Obitus Ricardi Midilton uenerabilis annigeri', f. 1b;-

(c) 10 Sept., 'Obitus Thome Grene militis dominus de Norton qui obiit anno domini millesimo cccclxiio', f. 5. Matilda, daughter of Sir John Throgmorton and widow of (c), married (b) as her second husband; (a) presumably refers to (c)'s father, who died in 1457-1458, see G. Baker, Hist. of Northampton, i, 1822-1830, P. 32. A note at f. 97b records the birth on 24 Mar. 1561 (cf. the erased entry in the calendar for that day) at Wavendon, co. Bucks., where the Green family owned lands, of Mary, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Fitzhugh, afterw. wife of William Astrey, cf. V.C.H., Bucks., iii, P. 346; iV, Pp. 492, 495. The name of another member of the Fitzhugh family is scribbled in a 16th-cent. hand in the lower margin of f. 106. At the foot of f. 129b is a note by John Symonds Breedon (d. 1838), of Bere Court, Pangboume, co. Berks, recording his discovery of the MS. in a drawer in the china closet there, and adding that it was supposed to have been in the house since the times of Hugh Faringdon, last Abbot of Reading (executed 1539); this latter statement is probably no more than an inference from the fact that Bere Court was used as a country house by the Abbots of Reading (V.C.H., Berks, iii, P. 303). Subsequently belonged to the Rev. E. S. Dewick (d. 1917), by whom it was bequeathed, with Add. MS. 43472, to Sir G. F. Warner (ex libris inscription, dated 1918, f. 1). Binding of niger morocco, blind-tooled, by Rivière and Son.