Book of hours : use of Sarum : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : use of Sarum : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Book of hours
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Frost, H. Harvey
Former owner:
Laing, Guilelmus
Former owner:
Chesterfield, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of, 1854-1933
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Former owner:
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1450]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Autographs
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England
Manuscripts, Medieval--England
Gothic scripts
devotional calendars
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
England > London
Extent:
115 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 233 x 162 (154 x 97) mm bound to 25 cm, in box 18 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/pg15hh39b
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[London?]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-6v: calendar.
2. fol. 7-11: Matins (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
3. fol. 11v-20v: Lauds (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
4. fol. 20v-22: Prime (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
5. fol. 22v-24v: Terce (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
6. fol. 24v-26v: Sext (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
7. fol. 26v-29v: Nones (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
8. fol. 29v-36: Vespers (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
9. fol. 36-39v: Compline (Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use)
10. fol. 40-45v: Penitential Psalms.
11. fol. 45v-50v: Fifteen Gradual Psalms.
12. fol. 50v-55: Litany.
13. fol. 55v-77v: Office of the Dead (Sarum use)
14. fol. 78-86v: Commendation of Souls.
15. fol. 86v-95: "Psalms of the Passion" (i.e. Psalms 21-30)
16. fol. 95-102v: 15 Os.
17. fol. 103-106: Meditation on the Last Seven Words, followed by miscellaneous prayers.
18. fol. 106-106v: Letter from Pope Leo to Charlemagne on the names of the Angels.
19. fol. 106v-114: suffrages (Thomas Beckett, John the Baptist, Gregory, Christopher, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Katharine, Barbara, Guardian Angel, and All Saints)
20. fol. 114v-115v: St. Bernard on the Name of Jesus.
21. fol. 115v: Prayer of Charlemagne: "Conditor et redemptor..."; and Boniface's indulgence of twenty years: "Sit dulce nomen..."
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in England, possibly London, in the mid-15th century; calendar is Sarum use, Thomas of Canterbury has not been expunged.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Late 15th-century signature of Guilelmus Laing on fol. 6v (Guilielmus Layng) and 55 (Guilielm[us] Layng e[est] possessor huius libri); later owned by Edwin Francis, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, his sale Sotheby's London 8 April 1919, lot 578 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts; offered by Quaritch in 1931 (1931 catalogue, no. 58) and again in 1945 (cat. 629, no. 10); Bookplate of H. Harvey Frost, fol. i verso, presumably acquired from him by Maggs.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold by Maggs to the BPL in 1956 (1956 catalogue, number 139)
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 216
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 115 + iii ; 1⁶ 2-14⁸ 15⁴⁻¹ (final leaf cancelled). The text block of folio 74 has been cut out and restored, pasted into a replacement, blank, border, presumably at a relatively late date, since the worm holes on fol. 73 and 75 do not appear in folio 74. In addition, a seventeenth-century hand has written signes-de-renvoi on fol. 73v ("A") and 75 ("B") ; decorative catchwords in a black banderole; that on fol. 22v has been incorporated into the floriate border. Modern Arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
Layout: Single column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, top and bottom writing lines extend across the width of the page.
Script: Written in a gothic textualis formata, with two-compartment "a." Written in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-line versal initials throughout alternating blue with red filigree or gold with blue; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon with white filigree highlights and thin, spindly sprays into margin; 3-line initial in colors on gold with 1/4 floriate border in typical English style and color scheme on fol. 45v; 8-line initials with 3/4 border in similar scheme at the beginning of each Hour, on fol. 7, 11v, 20v, 22v, 24v, 26v, 29v, 36, 40, 55v, 78, 86v and 95; full border on fol. 7.
Binding: 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over heavily bevelled boards, resulting in raised squared corners, elaborately tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, heavy green paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, other flyleaves early paper, spine gilt-stamped "Horae/ Ad usum/ sarum". Housed in brown cloth clamshell box "Horae/ Sarum use" and "MS q. Med. 139" gilt on spine.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 61.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018699
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.139
MS 1563 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789015