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- Record Id:
- 040-002083197
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- 032-002083194
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001308.0x00013a
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- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
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Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May); Germanus of Paris (28 May); Translation of Edmund (9 June) [added?]; Richard of Chichester (20 June, presumably feast of his Translation, usually on 16 June); Translation of Swithin 'sociorum' [sic] (15 July); Helen [added?] (18 August); Edmund Rich (16 November); Hugh of Lincoln (17 November). Entries in blue include Maurus (1 December) and Birinus (3 December).
ff. 7r-26v: Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sarum use.
ff. 27r-37r: The Seven Penitential Psalms, Fifteen Gradual Psalms (for the first twelve, only the first line is given), and Litany.
ff. 37v-45v: Hours of the Passion (imperfect)., ending in None; explicit: 'Domine ihesu xpiste qui hora diei nona ex'; the following folio is missing.
ff. 46r-52v: Hours of the Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary (imperfect at beginning); incipit: 'Largire quod concipiam tecum cordis'.
ff. 53r-55v: Little Office of the Cross.
ff. 55v-67r: Office of the Dead, Sarum use.
ff. 67v-74r: Commendation of Souls.
ff. 74v-76v: 'Psalmi de passione domini' (imperfect), ending at Ps. 28: 7; explicit: 'Vox domini inter'.
ff. 77r-83r: The so-called 'Psalter of St Jerome'; incipit: 'Suscipe digneris domine deus omnipotens'; for the text, see D. H. Turner, 'The Prayer Book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan', Revue Bénédictine, 70 (1960), pp. 361-3.
ff. 83r-85r: Extracts from the four Gospels: John, 1, 1-14; Luke, 1, 26-38; Matthew, 2, 1-12; Mark, 16, 14-20. The headings and miniatures for the extracts from Matthew and Mark have been transposed.
ff. 85r-89r: Prayers to eleven of the apostles, including Paul, but omitting Jude and Matthias, followed by two general prayers to the apostles.
ff. 89r-94v: Prayers to St Stephen, Laurence, All Martyrs, Martin, Benedict, All Confessors, All Holy Virgins, All Saints, Christopher, George, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Katherine ();
ff. 95r-98r: Hymn founded on the Salve regina; incipit: 'Salve virgo virginum stella matutina. Sordidorum criminum vera medicina'. See U. Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum (Louvain, 1892-1912), no. 18318, where it is attributed to St Bonaventure.
ff. 98v-100r: Hymn on the Angelic Salutation; incipit: 'Ave dei genitrix et immaculata virgo celi gaudium toti mundo natum'. See Chevalier, no. 1761, where it is attributed to Robert Grosseteste.
ff. 100r-101v: The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary; 'Virgo templum trinitatis. deus summe bonitatis et misericordie'. Here attributed to Pope Clement VI, but usually ascribed to Philippe de Grève (d. 1236). See Chevalier, no. 21899, and A. Wilmart, Auteurs Spirituels et Textes Dévots du Moyen âge Latin (Paris, 1932), p. 329 and n. 1.
ff. 102r-103v: Poem on Christ on the Cross by Jean de Limoges, monk of Clairvaux and Abbot of Zircz; incipit: 'Omnibus consideratis. paradisus voluptatis. es ihesus piissime'. See Chevalier, no. 14081; Wilmart, p. 584; Analecta Hymnica, 31, no. 68, wrongly cited by Wilmart as lii, p. 133; C. Horváth, Johannis Lemovicensis . . . opera omnia, (Veszprém, 1932), iii, pp. 111-15.
ff. 136v-147r: Prayers to Christ, the Virgin, St Michael, etc., including: 'Domine ihesu xpiste qui in hunc mundum propter nos peccatores de sine patris advenisti'. (Cf. A. Hughes, The Portiforium of Saint Wulstan (Henry Bradshaw Society, 1960), pp. 3-5) (ff. 104r-104v); 'O intemerata et in eternum benedicta' (ff. 106v-107v); 'Sancte michael archangele qui venisti'; See Wilmart, pp. 212-13 (f. 108v); 'Stabat mater dolorosa'; see Analecta Hymnica, liv, no. 201 (ff. 109v-110v); 'Adoro te domine ihesu xpiste In cruce ascendentem'; see A. Wilmart, 'Prières médiévales pour l'Adoration de la Croix', Ephemerides Liturgicae, 46 (1932), p. 24 (ff. 114r-114v); 'Deus exaudi oracionem meam quia iam cognosco tempus meum prope est'; Rhymed litany, incipit: 'Kyrie eleyson. miserere. Summe pater nos tuere. Creaturas tuas quere. per peccata perditas'. Includes petitions to Thomas Becket, Edmund of East Anglia and Richard of Chichester.
ff. 147r-152r: Devotions for use during mass, headed by a rubric, incipit: 'Si quis latinum intelligat et missam cupiat audire'.
ff. 152r-154v: Added prayer to the Holy Trinity, incipit: 'Tibi laus, tibi gloria (ff. 152-152v); prayer to Archangel Gabriel, incipit: 'Gabriel archangele fortitudo dei (ff. 152v-153r).
ff. 153r-154v: Added prayers to St Stephen, incipit: 'Intrans in celum'; the Virgin, incipit: ' O benignissima domina'; St Thomas, incipit: 'Gaude lux londoniarum'; St Anthony, incipit: 'Vox de celo'; and John of Bridlington, incipit: 'Bridlyngtone prior pie'.
Decoration:
The miniatures may be assigned to two or three hands; hand 1: ff. 7r, 10v, 17r, 19r, 22r, 23v, 24v, 37v, 53r and 74v; hand 2, presumably an assistant of hand 1: ff. 20v, 27r, 67v, 95r, 98v, 100r and 102r, and also possibly that on f. 55v (or hand 3). According to Scott, hand 3 illuminated ff. 89v, 91r-92. By the first hand are also some historiated initials, e.g., those on ff. 7r, 10v, 17r, 22r, 37v, 74v, 77r, 85r (second initial), 86r-87r; others are by the second hand. The first hand has been identified as that of 'Johannes', the artist who executed some of the miniatures in the 'Li Livres du Graunt Cam', now Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 (see Turner, 1976, p. 270 and nn. 11, 12, and Rickert, 1965, pp. 165-6, 174-5). This attribution was put in doubt by Scott (1996). It has been suggested that the second artist was responsible for the passion miniatures in the Bedford Psalter and Hours, Add. MS. 42131, which are closely related iconographically to those in the present manuscript (see Turner 1976, p. 270, n. 12 and Scott 1996).
18 large miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 7r, 10v, 17r, 19r, 20v, 22r, 23v, 24v, 27r, 37v, 53r, 55v, 67v, 74v, 95r, 98v, 100r, 102r).
Calendar medallions of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Labours of the Months (ff. 1r-6v).
Small miniatures of the Evangelists (ff. 83r, 83v, 84r, 85r) and saints (ff. 85r-87v, 89r-94r).
Numerous historiated and inhabited initials in colours and gold, at almost every division with heads of saints, kings, queens, ordinary men and women, including the head of God (f. 77r), King David (e.g., ff. 7r, 27r, 53r), the Annunciation (f. 100r), and Virgin and Child (f. 110v, 119v).
Full and partial borders in colours and gold. Verse-initials in blue and gold, decorated with red and blue penwork respectively. Line endings in blue and gold.
The subjects of the miniatures and historiated initials are as follows:
f. 1r, January: Aquarius; A man warming himself before a fire.
f. 1v, February: Pisces; A man digging.
f. 2r, March: Aries; A man pruning.
f. 2v, April: Taurus; A man holding flowers in his hand.
f. 3r, May: Gemini; A man with hawk and hound.
f. 3v, June: Cancer; A man weeding.
f. 4r, July: Leo; A man mowing.
f. 4v, August: Virgo; A man reaping.
f. 5r, September: Libra; A man threshing.
f. 5v, October: Scorpio; A man sowing.
f. 6r, November: Sagittarius; A man killing a pig.
f. 6v, December: Capricorn; A king feasting.
f. 7r, The Last Supper (Matins).
f. 10v, The Agony in the Garden (Lauds).
f. 17r, The Betrayal (Prime).
f. 19r, Christ before Pilate (Terce).
f. 20v, Christ carrying the Cross (Sexte).
f. 22r, The Crucifixion (None).
f. 23v, The Deposition (Vespers).
f. 24v, The Entombment (Compline).
f. 27r, The Last Judgement, and David praying.
f. 37v, The Piercing of Christ's side.
f. 53r, Christ being nailed to the cross.
f. 55v, A funeral mass.
f. 67v, Three souls being offered to God by angels.
f. 74v, Christ as the Man of Sorrows.
f. 83r, John the Evangelist.
f. 83v, Luke the Evangelist.
f. 84v, Mark the Evangelist.
f. 85r, Matthew the Evangelist.
f. 95r, The Virgin and Child.
f. 98v, The Annunciation.
f. 100r, The Coronation of the Virgin.
f. 102r, The Crucifixion.
f. 85r, St Peter.
f. 85v, St Paul.
f. 86r, St Andrew, St John the Evangelist, St James the Elder.
f. 86v, St Thomas, St James, St Philip.
f. 87r, St Bartholomew, St Matthew, St Simon.
f. 87v, the Apostles.
f. 89r, the Martyrs ?
f. 89r, St Stephen.
f. 89v, St Laurence.
f. 90r, St Martin, St Benedict.
f. 90v, St Benedict, the Confessors.
f. 91r, the Virgins.
f. 91v, St Christopher.
f. 92r, St George.
f. 92v, St John the Baptist.
f. 93r, St Mary Magdalene.
f. 93v, St Margaret.
f. 94r, St Katherine.
f. 119v, Virgin and Child.
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- Start Date:
- 1410
- End Date:
- 1420
- Date Range:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space: 130 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. [iii] + i-v +154 + vi-ix + [iii] (ff. i-ix are modern parchment flyleaves; all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves).
Collation: i6 (ff. 1-6); ii-iii8 (ff. 7-22); iv4 (ff. 23-27); v-vi8 (ff. 28-42); vii8-2 (ff. 43-48); viii6 (ff. 49-54); ix-x8 (ff. 55-70); xi8-1 (ff. 71-77); xii-xvi8 (ff. 78-117); xvii8-2 (ff. 118-123); xviii-xx8 (ff. 124-147); xxi8-1 (ff. 148-154).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding of red leather; rebound in 2008; the former crimson covers (18th century) are kept with the manuscript.
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Origin: England (London).
Provenance:
Cecily Neville, 1st duchess of Warwick, 1st countess of Worcester (b. 1424, d. 1450), daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and wife successively of Henry, duke of Warwick and John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester, perhaps owned by her: an erased prayer for her soul which was read with the help of chemical reagents at the beginning of the 20th century and reported to say: '[Iesu]s which lykedst to dy for redempcion of all mankynd have mercy upon the soul of Cesill Duchess of Warwyk which dyed the yere of grace ye moneth of Aug't' (see Descriptive Catalogue, pp. 88-9) (f. 147r).
Elizabeth of York (b. 1466, d. 1503), queen of England, consort of Henry VII: inscribed 'Elisaabeth the quene' (f. 22r).
Edward Stafford (b. 1478, d. 1521), 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Elizabeth of York's cousin: an erased inscription read by the use of chemical reagents, 'Edwardus Dux Bukyngham' (see Descriptive Catalogue, pp. 88-9) (f. 152r).
Dorothy Osborne of Cheriton, Kent, belonged to her in 1787, according to a note on f. iii verso, had been given to her by her mother, who said that Mary Queen of Scots on the night before her death had presented the manuscript to one of her attendants, who was of Mrs Osborne's mother's family: 'This book was given me by my mother who told me that it belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, and was given by her the night before she was beheaded to one of her attendants who was of my mother's family. Dorothy Osborne' (f. iii verso). In the second note on f. iii verso, the then rector of Cheriton, Edmund Ferrers, identified the attendant as Dorothy, daughter of Sir Christopher Willoughby: 'Written at Cheriton and at my request by Ms Osborne in 1787 Edmund Ferres, Rector of Cheriton Hants'; 'The lady to whom it was given was Dorothy, daugthter of Sir Christopher Willaughby by Elisabeth his wife, sister and heir of Gilbert, Lord Talbois of Kime in Lincolnshire in 1536. Su Iacobi Peerage vol 2d page 402. The present Lord Middleton is descendant from younger branch of this family. E Ferrers.'.
Bertram, 4th earl of Ashburnham (d. 1878), acquired by him in July 1848: see Historical Manuscripts Commission, 8th Report, Appendix 3 (1881), p. 102, and Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place (London: Hodgson, 1853), Appendix 48; bookplate: Ashburnham Appendix 48 (f. i recto).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: purchased by in 1897; his bookplates dated 1897 (f. i recto); manuscript 59 in his collection; sold in 1920 for £4000 (Sotheby's sale, 23 March 1920, lot 41).
C. W. Dyson Perrins (b. 1864, d. 1958), book and porcelain collector and benefactor, purchased for him by Quaritch on Yates Thompson sale of 1920: his bookplate (f. i recto).
Acquired by the British Library in 1958.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 5 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge, 1902), no. 59.
Illustrations of one hundred manuscripts in the Library of H. Y. Thompson. Volume 1, containing forty-eight plates illustrating ten French MSS. from the XIth to the XVIth centuries, 7 vols (London, 1914), IV, pls.1x-1xx;
Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts, Burlington Fine Arts Club (1908), no. 153.
Seymour De Ricci, Les Manuscrits de la Collection Henry Yates Thompson (Paris, 1926), p. 20.
O. E. Saunders, English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Centuries, (Paris, 1928), pp. 36, 89, pls. 88-90;
Eric G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1928), pl. 88-90.
M. Rickert, La Miniatura Inglese, Milan, 1961, pp. 9, 13, 25-6, pl. 56.
D. H. Turner, 'The Bedford Hours and Psalter', Apollo, 76 (1962), 265-70 (p. 270, figs. 11-12).
M. Rickert, Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages, (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965), pp. 174-6, 248 n. 88.
D. H. Turner, Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 5 (London: British Museum, 1965), no. XXXIV.
Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London: British Museum, 1967), no. 33.
T. J. Brown, G. M. Meredith-Owens, D. H. Turner, ‘Manuscripts from the Dyson Perrins Collection’, British Museum Quarterly, 23 (1961), 27-38 (pp. 31-2, pl. xvii b).
D. H. Turner, 'The Wyndham Payne Crucificion', British Library Journal, 2 (1976), 8-26 (pp. 11-12, 22).
Richard Marks and Nigel Morgan, The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981), pp. 26-7, 110, pl. 36.
Nigel Morgan, 'Notes on the Post-Conquest Calendar, Litany and Martyrology of the Cathedral Priory of Winchester with a Consideration of Winchester Diocese Calendars of the Pre-Sarum period', in The Vanishing Past: Medieval Studies Presented to Chrisopher Hohler, ed. by Alan Borg and Andrew Martindale (Oxford: B. A. R., 1981), pp. 133-74 (p. 161).
J. J. G. Alexander, 'Painting and Manuscript Illumination for Royal Patrons in the Later Middle Ages', in English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages, ed. by V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne (London: Duckworth, 1983), pp. 141-62 (p. 154).
Eberhard König, ‘A Leaf from a Gutenberg Bible Illuminated in England’, British Library Journal, 9 (1983), 32-50 (p. 40, fig. 6).
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), fig. 42.
Pamela Tudor Craig, ‘The Hours of Edward V and William Lord Hastings: British Library Manuscript Additional 54782’, in England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by David Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987), pp. 351-69 (p. 355)
C. Paul Christianson, ‘Evidence for the Study of London’s Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, ed. by Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 87-108 (p. 107 n. 44).
Michael T. Orr, ‘The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen (British Library Additional Manuscript 50001): The workshop of Johannes and English fifteenth century illumination,’ (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University 1989).
Kathleen L. Scott, ‘Design, Decoration and Illustration’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 31-64 (p. 57 n. 35).
Michael T. Orr, ‘The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen: Evidence for Collaboration between English Illuminators and an Artist from the Gold Scrolls Group’, in Flanders in a European Perspective: Manuscript Illumination around 1400 in Flanders and Abroad, ed. by Maurits Smeyers and Bert Cardon (Leuven : Peeters, 1995), pp. 619-33.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, no. 55.
Kathleen L. Scott, Dated and Datable English manuscript borders, c. 1395-1499 (London: British Library, 2002),p. 13.
Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2003), no. 93, p. 229 [exhibition catalogue].
Janet Backhouse, The Sherborne Missal (London: British Library, 1999), p. 41.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 7 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999- ), III: 1400-1557, ed. by Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (1999), p. 61.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1956-1965, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2000), I: Descriptions, no. 50001.
Kathleen Scott, 'The Illustration and Decoration of the Register of the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity at Luton Church, 1475-1546', in The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths, ed. by A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie and Ralph Hanna (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 155-83 (p. 178 n. 3).
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 17 [exhibition catalogue].
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library 2011), no 28 [exhibition catalogue].
Laura Cleaver, 'Charles William Dyson Perrins as a Collector of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts c. 1900-1920', Perspectives médiévales [Online], 41 (2020), 1-26 (p. 22).
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