Add MS 38528

HOURS, etc., in Latin. Contents: (1) The four Gospellessons. f. 1; (2) "Obsecrote" and "O intemerata." ff. 6 b, 10 ; (3) "Oroison deuote de nostre dame": the "Stabat mater." f. 14 b; (4) "Passio domini nostri Ihesu Christi secundum Iohannem." f. 17; (5) "Oroison tresdeuote de nostre seigneur," beg. "O dulcissime domine," and containing such phrases as "me famulam tuam liberare digneris," "defende me domine famulam tuam," "hec Presta michi indigne famule tue," etc. f. 28; (6) Hours of the Virgin, apparently of Paris use, cf. Add. MS. 11866 and the printed Heures a lusaige de Paris, Paris, 1498. Imperfect, wanting a leaf at the beginning and two leaves after f. 84 (end of Sext and beg. of Nones). f. 35; (7) Penitential Psalms and Litany, the latter including SS. Denis, Louis, and Geneviève. ff. 102, 115 b ; (8) "Hore sancte crucis." f. 120 b; (9) "Hore sancti spiritus." f. 128 b; (10) "Ad vesperas defunctorum," wanting the first leaf of text. f. 134 b; (l1) "Les heures de la passion." f. 182 ; (l2) "Sequentem orationem scripsit vencrabilis Beda presbiter de septem vltimis verbis Christi in cruce pendentis, quam quicunque omni dic dixerit flexis genibus nec dyabolus nec malus homo ei nocere poterit," etc. f. 227; (13) "Octo versus saucti Bernardi," with versicles and prayers. f. 229 b; (14) Memorials of Saints, including "Memoire des sainctes reliques" (viz. the Crown of Thorns and Lance, both of which were preserved in the Ste. Chapelle at Paris), Denis, Claude, Hubert, Geneviève, Opportuna, Avoye, and Radegonde. f. 232; (15) "Oroison de nostre dame," beg. "Domina mea sancta Maria." f. 264 ; (16) Prayer against fire, water, poison, and sudden death. f. 270; (17) "Tresbelles oroisons sur les sept pseaulmes." f. 270 b. Vellum; ff. iv + 276. 5³/₄ in. x 3³/₄ in. Middle of XV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (v^1O, xiii⁶, xxix⁶, last³), with catchwords. Sec. fol. "Qui non." Ten (originally, no doubt, twelve) wellexecuted miniatures by French artists, with full borders of foliagescrolls, flowers, fruit, birds, on plain vellum backgrounds; illuminated initials and partial borders throughout. The miniatures are on ff. 59 b (Visitation), 71 b (Nativity), 77 b (Angel and Shepherdsone shepherdess), 82 (Adoration of the Magi), 89 (Flight into Egypt), 96 (Coronation of the Virgin), 102 (David in penitence, death-angel swooping), 121 (Crucifixion), 129 (Pentecost), 182 b (Gethsemane). French binding, late 16th cent., of brown morocco, gilt-tooled, with the arms of Daffis of Toulouse in the centre of each cover. Two small fragments from a 13th cent. MS. on canon law, formerly used in the binding, are now Add. MS. 38651, H. On f. iv, "Ex libris C. J. [erasure] de Haricourt (?) in Sen. Par. patron.

17 Mart. 1779, cum duobus aliis, 27 ^ll." Sotheby's sale-cat. 28, 29 Mar. 1912, lot 334.