Arundel MS 230, ff 162-180

Contents:

ff. 162r-180v: The Office of the Dead.

The manuscript contains a number of additions:

f. 174r: Responsory from the Office of the Dead, beginning 'Libera me domine de viis infernie qui portas ereas confregis[ti] [et] visitati infernum et d[edisti] eiis lumen ut viderent te qui erant in penis tenebrarum . Clamantes et dicentes: Advenisti redemptor n[oster] qui [erant]’, added in the 13th or 14th century.

f. 179r: A prayer for the soul of a deceased woman, 'Domine pro tua pietate miserere animae famulae tuae atque a contagiis mortalitatis exutam', added in the 13th century.

f. 180v: A request for prayers in Middle English for the souls of members from the Dygne family: ‘Of yowr charyte pray ffor the Sowlys of Wylliam, John, Rechard and Elizabeth Dygne with all there frendes Sowlys In specyall with all Chrysten Sowlys In generall that god wyll have prayd ffor’, added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

1 large gold initial on a blue and pink ground (f. 162r); large blue initials with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, and red initials with blue penwork decoration and pen-flourishing; small red or blue initials. Red or blue paraphs. Red or blue patterned line fillers, including several zoomorphic ones in the form of fish.