Kings MS 9, ff 256-303

Contents:

ff. 256r-258r: Prayer to the Trinity, beginning 'Auxiliatrix sis michi trinitas sancta', followed by others;

ff. 258r-262v: The Four Gospel Lessons, beginning 'In principio erat verbum';

ff. 262v-273v: Prayers;

ff. 273v-276r: Two Psalms;

ff. 276r-281: The Office of the Holy Spirit;

f. 281v-283r: Prayers for various occasions;

ff. 283r-288r: A long prayer to be said daily for thirty days, beginning 'Sancta Maria perpetua virgo virginum';

ff. 288r-289r: Prayer with rubric 'Sequitur oratio santi [sic] Augustini a spiritu sancto ut dicitur sibi revelata devotissima', beginning 'Deus propicius esto michi peccatori';

ff. 289v-291r: 'Stabat mater', with rubric 'Quedam devotissima contemplatio beate marie virginis' (f. 289r);

ff. 291r-292v: The Passion according to St John;

ff. 292r-297r: Prayers in commemoration of the Five Wounds, including the 'Ave vulnus lateris' (f. 296) with indulgence attached in the name of Pope Innocent II, and 'Ave caput Christi gratum' (f. 296v);

ff. 297r-297v: A Suffrage to St Anne;

ff. 297v-298r: Prayer with rubric 'Oratio Sancte Susanne', beginning 'A eus eterne qui';

ff. 298r-299r: Prayer with rubric 'Oratio ad divam virginem mariam', beginning 'Ave rosa sine spinis';

ff. 299r-300v: Salutations to the Virgin, the first of which has the English rubric 'Who that saieth devoutely this prayer daylie thatt not departe out of this worlde withoute penaunce and mynistracion of the holy sacrement the whiche was shewed by an angelle unto Saint Bernarde', beginning 'Ave Maria, ancilla sancte trinitatis';

f. 300v-302v: Prayer of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin, with English rubric 'A devoute prayer of the vii sorowes of our lady', beginning 'Ave dulcis mater Christi'.

Decoration:

5 small miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 266v, 289v, 293r, 297r, 300v); 1 excised (f. 268r). Large and small illusionistic initials in gold on red or blue grounds.

The subjects of the miniatures are:

f. 266v: Christ after the scourging, in a purple robe, with a reed and crown of thorns.

f. 289v: Mary mourning over the dead Christ.

f. 293r: Christ bearing the Cross.

f. 297r: St Anne, with the Virgin as a child.

f. 300v: Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.