The Madresfield hours : a fourteenth-century manuscript in the Library of Earl Beauchamp

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  Book of Hours, use of Paris: [manuscript], middle of the 15th century

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; major feasts in red. ff. 13-27v: Pericopes of the Gospels, that of John followed by the prayer, Protector in te sperantium &; Oratio beate marie virginis, Obsecro te & et michi famulo tuo &; Alia oratio beate marie virginis, O Intemerata & orbis terrarum. De te enim ... ff. 28-29: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; the prayer, Ecclesiam tuam quesumus domine&, concludes the hours from lauds through compline; f. 89v, ruled, but blank.ff. 90-108v: Penitential psalms and litany. ff. 109-112v: Short hours of the Cross. ff. 113-116v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 117-170v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris. ff. 170v-188: Prayers as follow: Les quinze ioyes nostre dame, Doulce dame de misericorde &; les cincq plaies nostre seigneur, Doulx dieu doulx pere sainte trinite &; Sainte vray croys aouree &; Illumina oculos meos & Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui ezechie regi &; Ave domine ihesu christe verbum patris &; Ave verum corpus natum &; Anima christi sanctifica me &; Domine ihesu christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem &; Gaude virgo mater christi que per aurem concepisti & Deus qui beatissimam et gloriosam virginem mariam in conceptu et partu &; Stabat mater dolorosa &; Pietatem tuam clementissime ihesu qui mortem subiciens&; ff. 188v-189v, ruled, but blank.

  mssHM 1130

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  Jernegan family book of hours: [manuscript], late 15th century

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  Book of Hours of the Jernegan family, England; text is in Latin, with decorated initials, no miniatures.

  mssHM 56796

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  Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript], beginning of the 16th century

  Manuscripts

  Book of Hours, according to the use of Rome. Includes a calendar, pericopes of the Gospels, the Hours of the Virgin, Psalms, the Office of the Dead and additional prayers. ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French alternating red and brown (the ink of the text), with major feasts in blue; 4 lines reserved at the top of each month, possibly for a miniature. 2. ff. 13-22: Pericopes of the Gospels; Oracio ad virginem mariam, Obsecro te &; O intemerata & orbis terrarum. Inclina mater misericordie &; f. 22v, ruled, but blank. ff. 23-24v: Pulcrerrime [sic] laudes marie, O filia dei patris. Mater ihesu christi, Amica spiritus sancti &[17 appellations of the Virgin]; Septem gaudia beate marie, Gaude virgo mater christi & Deus qui beatissimam et gloriosam virginem mariam in conceptu & 4. ff. 25-88: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome, with weekly variations of the psalms at matins set into the text before the lessons; suffrages of All Saints, and hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit worked in; Advent office begins on f. 82; 3 leaves missing before ff. 51, 62 and 77, containing the hours of the Cross at lauds, and the beginnings of sext and compline; f. 57 misbound, should follow f. 61; f. 87 should follow f. 82; f. 88v, ruled, but blank. 5. ff. 89-10v: Penitential psalms and litany, including Gatianus, Martin and Lidorius among the confessors, and Radegundis among the virgins. 6. ff. 105-143v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome. 7. ff. 143v-158: Prayers as follow: Ave domine ihesu christe verbum patris filius virginis & with versicles, responses and the prayer, Deus qui culpa offenderis &; septem versus beati bernardi, Illumina oculos meos & and the prayer, Deus qui ezechie regi &; de sancta trinitate, Adoro te deum patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum unam divinitatem &; suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, James, Christopher, Sebastian, Lawrence, Maurice, Gatianus, Martin, Lidorius, Fiacre, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agnes, Margaret; Les sept oraisons saint gregoire, O domine ihesu christe adoro te in cruce pendentem &; Oraison pour les trespasses, Avete omnes anime fideles & with versicle, response and the prayer, Domine ihesu christe salus et liberatio &; f. 158v, ruled, and, added in a later hand, a series of 4 prayers, each beginning in a similar manner, Je te commande a dieu le pere tout puissant

  mssHM 1165