Stowe MS 16

HOURS of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — (1) Calendar. f. 3; — (2) Office of the Virgin. f. 9; — (3) The Penitential Psalms and Psalms of Degrees, with Litany. f. 48; — (4) Office of the Dead. f. 72; — (5) Hymn to the Virgin, beg. "Salve virgo virginum stella matutina." f. 120; — (6) Prayers to the Virgin, im.perfect at beginning. f. 124; — (7) Miscellaneous prayers and hymns. f. 128b. Vellum; ff. 152. Early xvth cent. Executed in England; with good illuminated initials and borders at the beginning of each office, and a few miniatures. The calendar contains the following additions: obit of Henry VII., 21 April, 1509; "sayntt Fremunde Fayre att Dunstabyll," 11 May; obit of John Rotheram, 9 Aug. 1492; obit of Roger Rotheram, doctor of laws, 2 6 Aug. 1477 (cf. f. 149b). On two fly-leaves at the beginning (ff. 1b, 2) is a prayer, entitled "The glorious Inuo[ca]cion of our saviour Jesu," in English, apparently in the same hand as the calendar, and with the name of the writer given as Richard Wauton. At the end (ff. 150b-152) are additional prayers of the 15th cent., including a commemoration of "Rex Henricus pauperum et ecclesie defensor," etc. (f. 151), with the litany "ora pro nobis, beate serve Dei, Henrice," and a prayer beg. "Deus qui beatum Henricum Regem tuum sanctum militem, ecclesie defensorem et pauperum amicum, in omnibus adversis (?) perfecte caritatis amore decorasti," etc. On f. 1 are the names of George Rotheram [15th cent., see also f. 150], Richard Thompson [Dean of Bristol, ob. 1685], and Walter Harte, who bought the MS. from the widow of Dean Thompson, in 1686. Three leaves have been replaced in facsimile (ff. 29, 75, 78), and a leaf is missing before f. 124. Bound in red velvet. Octavo.

Liturgies LATIN: Horæ, of the family of Rotheram: 15th cent.

Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Horæ: miniatures, initials and borders: early 15th cent.

includes:

• ff. 1-8 Richard Wauton: Wrote: in 15th cent.