[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Other titles: Book of hours (Leeds University Library. Brotherton Collection MS 18)
Classmark: BC MS 18
Publication city: [England]
Date(s): [ca. 1404-1425]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (viii, 159, ii leaves) (1 column, 21 lines)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/tf91q4sz
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372699
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Decoration: 16 large (5-8-line) initials in blue and pink with white tracery, infilled with flowers, on gold grounds, and within full borders, of gold and vine bars decorated with acanthus leaves and flowers. 2-3-line initials in blue with red penwork throughout. Versal initials in red and blue alternately.
Written in textualis rotunda.
Written by a scribe called William Watyr (ff. 150v, 156v).
Principal contents: ff. 1r-6v Calendar; ff. 7r-42v Hours of the Virgin; ff. 45r-51v Penitential Psalms; ff. 52r-53v the Gradual Psalms; ff. 53v-60v Litany and prayers; ff. 61r-70r Psalms of the Passion; ff. 71r-101v Office of the dead; (f. 102 blank); ff. 103r-113r Commendation of Souls; ff. 114r-126r Psalter of St Jerome; ff. 127r-136v Hours of the Passion; ff. 137r-138r Fifteen Oes of St Gregory; ff. 138r-140r Prayer of Bede on the Words on the Cross; ff. 140r-156v Prayers and suffrages.
From Sotheby's sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 19 June 1990 (lot 111).
See for a fuller description: O. Pickering, "Brotherton Collection MS 18 and its Riddling Middle English Verses", in The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, ed. by Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill (Cambridge and Tokyo, 2004), pp. 223-32.
Features
Bindings
Bound in a mid-16th-century recycled document of worn vellum over pasteboards, with three raised bands.
Provenance
16th-century inscriptions: Wyllyam Hurlton (ff. v recto, 156r, end pastedown) and Roger Hurlton (ff. viii (verso), 142v-143r). Early 17th-century inscriptions: Thomas Birkenhead and W. Brereton (fol. viii(verso)). Inscription of 1746: Rev. Caesar De Missy (f. 1r). The manuscript also belonged to Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, Bart (1738-1811), whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedown. In the 20th-century the manuscript belonged to Miss E. M. Ranshaw.
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