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A Book of Sunny Hours

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1944.
Call number: mssHM 47949
Creator: Franks, Thetta Quay(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Ralph C. Franks, August 1977.
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Postscript to Mother's Book of Sunny Hours

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mssHM 47950

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Book of Hours

Manuscripts

Three non-consecutive leaves from a French Book of Hours, use undetermined.

mssHM 80515

ff. 1-126v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; f. 13r-v: 2 coats of arms; ff. 14-19: Pericopes of the Gospels; f. 19v, with decorative border, but no text; ff. 20-23v: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 24-27: Short hours of the Cross; f. 27v, blank; ff. 28-64: Hours of the Virgin of undetermined use; f. 64v, blank; ff. 65-78v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 79-83v: Obsecro te and O intemerata; ff. 84-114v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 114v-116v: Deus propicius esto michi peccatori; ff. 117-124: Prayers added in 16th c., including one in French; ff. 124v-125: blank; ff. 125v-126: An indulgence granted to those who say certain prayers before the images contained in this book, issued by an unidentified bishop"Richard Pauli Stravius par la grace de Dieu et du Saint Siege Apostolique Evesque de Denis...Donne a Rullant le 29me de Jullet 1652, Par ordonance de Monsieur le R., Charle Briffor secretaire.".

mssHM 1173

Book of Hours : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-168v: [Book of Hours]: f. 3v: Rubric for the Hours of the Virgin although the text itself is no longer present; ff. 4-50v: Hours of the Passion; f. 51r-v, blank; ff. 52-74: Hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 74v, blank; ff. 75-114v: Long hours of the Trinity; ff. 115-136v: Suffrages of Michael, All Angels, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Andrew, James the Greater, All Apostles, Stephen, Denis, Lawrence, Christopher, All Martyrs, Martin, Nicholas, Anthony abbot, Godo, Maurus, All Confessors, Mary Magdalene, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Virgins, All Saints, for peace; ff. 137-139: Prayers to Jesus and to the Trinity; ff. 139v-152v: 64 short prayers for the Sundays of the year and major feasts; ff. 153-154v: Prayers for various occasions; ff. 155-166v: Prayers including one to William (O Guillerme pastor bone). ff. 167-168v, blank.

mssHM 1179

Book of Hours : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-92v (+ f. 43 bis): [Book of Hours]: ff. 3-27: [f. 3, ruled, but blank], Hours of the Passion with, after lauds, suffrages of Catherine of Alexandria, John the Evangelist, and Peter and Paul and after none, a suffrage ""de annunciatione dominica""; ff. 27v-30v: Passion according to John; ff. 31-40v: [f. 31, ruled, but blank], Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin; ff. 41-44: [f. 41, ruled, but blank], Prayers to the Holy Spirit; ff. 44v-55: Long hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 55-58v: Prayers to Jesus; ff. 59-68: [ff. 59-60, blank], Long Hours of the Holy Name of Jesus; ff. 68-73v: Prayers to Jesus; ff. 73v-79: Prayers on the passion of Christ and of penance; ff. 79-86v: Prayers to the Trinitiy, ""psalters"" to the Trinity, Psalter of St. Jerome. ff. 90-92v, blank.

mssHM 1180

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Sunny hours : consisting of poems on various subjects

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