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Manuscripts
ff. 1-105v: [Sarum manual]: ff. 1-4v: Benediction of salt and water; ff. 4v-8v: Order for cathecumens; ff. 8v-11v: Benediction of a font; ff. 12-19v: Marriage service; ff. 20-21v: Benedictions of various foods and objects; ff. 22-27: Order for visiting the sick; ff. 27-34: Extreme Unction; ff. 34-45v: Commendation of souls before and after death; ff. 46-64v, 68-71v, 75-77v: Office of the Dead; ff. 65-67v, 72-74v: Office of the Dead from another manuscript; ff. 77v-89v: Burial; ff. 90-95: Gospel pericope for Christmas; ff. 95-98: Gospel pericope for Epiphany; ff. 98-101v: Blessing of candles for the Purification; ff. 101v-104v: Order for Ash Wednesday; ff. 104v-105v: Benediction of the palm fronds on Palm Sunday.
mssHM 30986
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-142v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar; ff. 7-42: Hours of the Virgin, use of Sarum with the hours of the Cross worked in and with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Lawrence, Stephen, Thomas of Canterbury (erased), Nicholas, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints; f. 42v, ruled, but blank; ff. 43-62v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany; ff. 63-64, blank; ff. 65-103: Office of the Dead, Sarum use; f. 103v, blank; ff. 104-119: Commendation of souls; f. 119v, blank; ff. 120-137v: Psalter of St. Jerome; ff. 138-142v: the 15 Oes of St. Bridget, beginning and ending defectively.
mssHM 19913
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-64v. Latin; English; Czech. On ff. 2-7v, calendar; ff. 8-19v, Hours of the Virgin, presumably Sarum use, with the Hours of the Cross intermixed and suffrages following lauds; ff. 20-24v, Penitential psalms; ff. 24v-25v, Gradual psalms mainly by cue only; ff. 25v-29v, Litany; ff. 30-49v, Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 50-57v, Commendations of Souls; ff. 58-64v, prayers and devotions in various hands including on f. 62: a Czech translation of the Elevation prayer with an indulgence of Pope Boniface VI for 2000 years, granted at the request of King Philip of France (which begins in Latin"Domine ihesu christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem); on f. 62v, a suffrage of Anne; on f. f. 63, the beginning of a prayer in English:"[O] glorious ihesu. O meekest ihesu. O swettest ihesu. I pray the that I may haue true confession; on f. 65r-v (a loose leaf), the end of a prayer in English, detailing the failings of the parts of the body in turn and asking for forgiveness:"// him that ordeynith for me ever lasting peyne. Lord wyth every membre of my body . . .".
mssHM 58285
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-258; ff. 259-280v (paper; blank). [Breviary] Latin. ff. 1-5v, Commemorations; ff. 5v-8v, Prayers and lessons for the dead; ff. 8v-10v, Office for matins; ff. 10v-14, Prayers for various occasions; ff. 14v-52, Hours of the Virgin, Dominican use; ff. 52-129, Office, prime through compline; ff. 129v-174v, Office of the Dead, Dominican use; ff. 174v-192v, Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 193-212v, Psalmi communes; ff. 212v-217v, Office of Dominic; ff. 217v-238, Common of saints; ff. 238-251, Sanctorale; ff. 251-257v, Offices for the Monday after the Octave of Easter and the following 4 Sundays; selected psalms and antiphons, some with musical notation.
mssHM 1065
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Manuscripts
Part. 1. Text 1. ff. 1-114; f. 114v blank. [Book of Hours, use of Sarum]. Latin. On f. 1, added cues for chants for major feasts, s. XV; ff. 1v-3v, suffrages; ff. 4-15v, calendar; ff. 16-18, suffrages; f. 16v, added prayer for a pregnant woman, s. XV: "Deus qui beatam virginem et matrem mariam in conceptu et partu consecrasti "; ff. 19-60v, Hours of the Virgin with the Short Hours of the Cross worked in and suffrages after lauds; ff. 61-63, O Intemerata (masc. forms); ff. 64-66v, Penitential psalms; ff. 67-68, Litany; ff. 69-100v, Office of the Dead, Use of Utrecht with cues for Use of York variants added in the margins; ff. 101-112, Commendations of Souls; ff. 112v-113v, added suffrages to Anne and Margaret, and prayer to the Virgin; f. 114, added devotion to the Blood of Christ in English and Latin; f. 114v, blank. Artist identified as a follower of the Master of Margaret of Cleves. Part 1. Text 2. ff. 115-117v. [Incipit quidam tractus de dieta et fleobotimacione in singulis mensibus tocius anni]. English. Incipit: In the moneth of Januer lete þe no blode in the first day. for þat is perrilous, ne the second day, ne the fift day, ne the .x. day. Explicit: the last day of the mone of December &c. Explicit. Here missing the section for April-December. The text is an English version of a common text beginning "In ianuario sanguinem non minuas ...". On f. 117, added recipe, in English: "A gude laxative. Tak a dram of skamony & a dram of rubarbe & a dram of turbit & a peny weght of spiconard. . . "; f. 117v, blank. Part. 2. ff. 118-147v; f. 148r-v blank. [Book of Hours, use of York]. Latin. On ff. 118-122, Prime of the Hours of the Virgin, and of the Hours of the Cross, Use of York; ff. 122v-132v, Litany; ff. 132v-138v, Abbreviated Office of the Dead, Use of York, to be used in conjunction with the text on ff. 69-100v; ff. 139-146, Psalms of the Passion; ff. 146-147v, Prayers to the Wounds of Christ; f. 148r-v, blank.
mssHM 57340
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Manuscripts
Gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated initials, five-line red staff with square notation. There is some water damage on the bottom of the leaves but no loss of text.
mssHM 82936