Add MS 46201

HOURS, etc., in Latin and Italian. Contents:-

(1) Devotions to the Virgin, etc.: (a) 'Sancta Maria dei genitrix per misericordiam tuam';- (b) 'Obsecro te . . . per illud ineffabile gaudium';- (c) 'O intemerata et in eternum benedicta';- (d) 'Sancta Maria dei genitrix mitissima per amorem';- (e) 'O sancta trinitas et uera vnitas';-

(f) 'Domine Jesu christe saluator noster qui uoluisti';- (g) 'Oratio pro sancta veronica, beg. 'Deus qui beate ueronice tantam gratiam'(a variant of a prayer to St Anne, mentioned by V. Leroquais, Les Livres d'Heures Manuscrits de la Bibliotèque Nationale, Paris, 1927, ii, p. 207);- (h) 'Oratio pro scriptore inutili christi seruo d. prosd[ocimo]', beg. 'Famulum tuum prosdocimum';- (i) 'Oratio pro amica sua clara', beg. 'Pretende domine famule tue clare'. ff. 1-12.

(2) Little Office of St Catharine of Alexandria, compiled in a similar way to the more usual little Hours of the Holy Spirit or Cross. The antiphons are rhymed and similar, with some variations, to those printed by F. J. Mone in Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, iii, Freiburg, 1855, pp. 370, 371, beg. 'Deprecare regem celi'. (Cf. also U. Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum, i, no. 4380, and Leroquais, op. cit., i, p. xxvi). ff. 13-21.

(3) Devotions to St Catharine and at the Elevation:- (a) 'Deus qui beatam catherinam';- (b) 'Ave gemma claritatis ad instar carbunculi .' (Chevalier, op. cit., i, no. 1807);- (c) 'Ave sancta hostia', 'Ave sangue vivo'. ff. 21 b-23.

(4) Office of the Virgin Mary 'secundum consuetudinem sancte eclesie romane: Pro quolibet die sabbati'. ff. 23b-36.

(5) Various devotions:- (a) 'Domine iesu criste adoro te in cruce pendentem';- (b) 'Domine iesu criste fili dei vivi redemptor mundi defende me';- (c) 'Pietate tua domine nostrorum solve';- (d) 'Beata gloria domini de loco sancto suo';- (e) 'O Possança de l'altissimo';- (f) 'O mater dei memento mei';- (g) 'Deprecor te bone iesu ut dum anima';- (h) 'Veni sancte spiritus';- (i) 'Domine iesu christe redemptor mundi libera me';- (j) 'Domine iesu christe fons indeficiens';- (k) 'Precor te clementissime salvator mundi';- (l) 'O virgo gloriosa o virgo mitissima';- (m) 'Venio ad te confitenter';- (n) 'O intemerata et in eternum gloriosa';- (o) 'Cum magna fiducia';- (p) 'Alto dio alta labellar';- (q) 'O tu che porti christo';- (r) 'Benedeta sia lora';- (s) 'Quicumque hanc orationem omni die semel dixent erit omnibus inimicis suis gratiosus et toto tempore vite sue non carebit vitu et vestitu "Domine iesu christe qui dedisti gratiam Joseph"';- (t) 'Concede quesumus omnipotens deus ut qui protectionis';- (u) 'Benedicat me deus';- (v) 'Misier San Polo';- (w) 'Poi che da i mei primi anni'. ff. 38-74b. Vellum; ff. v+74. 99 mm. x 75 mm. Lat. and Ital. Second half of xv cent. Written in N. Italy, partly by a scribe called Prosdocimus (see ff. 11, 11b), for a woman called 'Veronica', whose name is given in many of the prayers(see ff. 1, 3, 4b, 7, 11b, 22, 39, 41b, 43, 68b).Several hands are discernible, of which the chief are:- (1) the humanist hand of the scribe Prosdocimus, ff. 1-12;- (2) the normal Italian 15th cent. round book-hand of the Offices themselves, ff. 13-21, 23b, 25-36;- (3) a similar one on ff. 21b-22b, 38-69; and (4) the slightly later one of the final Ital. prayer on ff. 73-74b. The subjects of the full-page illuminations are:- (1) 'Veronica' before St Catharine, f. 21;- (2) the Virgin with the Holy Child, f. 24b;- (3) Christ emerging from the tomb, f. 37b. Gatherings irregular. On f. ii are the initials 'A.B/C.P' and on f. iii b is the note 'Anno 1527'. Belonged to Alfred Gauntlett Hammond (d. 1944), of Southwick, co. Suss., and his wife, Marie Hammond, in whose collection it was MS. 12 (see bookstamp, f. ii b) (Add. MSS. 43715, 43716 were presented in 1934 by A. G. Hammond in memory of his wife). Presented, together with Add. Ch. 71818, by Miss G. M. Hammond in memory of her father.