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Hymnal for vespers : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-29v. [Hymnal for vespers]: f. 1, blank; ff. 1 v-25: Hymns for 31 feasts of the temporale, sanctorale and common of saints at vespers, text only; ff. 25v-27: Suffrages "della Croce, De gli Apostoli, De Sancto Augustino, di San Petronio, della pace"; ff. 27v-29v: Office of Petronius.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [16th century]
Call number: mssHM 1121
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On the front pastedown, a small square paper label with a red "6" stamped on it; in pencil "64. Orazioni." Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 318 x 467 mm
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Book of hours, use of Paris[?] : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-150v. [Book of Hours; portions of the text missing due to lost leaves, and other sections misbound]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar; ff. 13-20v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 21-25v, 30-44v, 49-54v, 26-27v, 28-29v, 55-62v: Hours of the Virgin, possibly of the use of Paris; ff. 63-74v: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and another prayer; ff. 75-90v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 91-92v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 93-94v, 45-48v, 95-97v: Prayers in French; ff. 98-145: Office of the Dead; ff. 145v-150v: Prayer in French and in Latin, with a suffrage of Martin added.

mssHM 1138

Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-142; [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; ff. 13-22v: Pericopes of the Gospels, with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata; f. 23r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 24-77v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 78-92v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 78 was originally the opening leaf of the Hours of the Cross, the first text has been erased and the beginning of the Penitential psalms written in, in an imitative gothic script (17th cent.?); ff. 93-94v, 96-97v, 98r-v, 95r-v: Prayers in French, missing leaves; ff. 99-100: Short hours of the Cross, with the offices for none, vespers and compline only; ff. 100v-137v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; f. 100v was originally the opening leaf for the Hours of the Holy Spirit, as indicated by the rubric, de sancto spiritu, on f. 100; the first text was erased and the beginning of the Office of the Dead written in, in an imitative gothic script (17th cent.?); ff. 138-139: Suffrage of Christopher, added in a different hand. ff. 139v-142v, blank.

mssHM 1142

Missal, use of York : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-297v. Latin. ff. 1-6v, Graded calendar; ff. 7-8, Holy Water service; ff. 8-137, Temporale; ff. 137-156v, Ordinary and canon of mass; ff. 157-197v, Temporale; ff. 197v-252, Sanctorale; ff. 252-274v, Common of saints; ff. 274v-295v, Votive masses; f. 296r-v, St. Gregory's Trental; f. 296v, Sequence for a martyr; ff. 296v-297v, Catena mainly from John, prayers before and after mass, and the propers for a mass of John of Beverley.

mssHM 1067

Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin, English, and Czech (the"Felbrigg Hours") : [manuscript]

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

Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-165v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French alternating red and blue with major feasts in gold; ff. 13-25v: Pericopes of the Gospels, with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata; ff. 26-46v: House of the Virgin, use of Paris; misbound and should be read as follows: 26-46v and 78r-v, matins, with the weekly variations of the psalms set into the text before the lessons; ff. 79-101, lauds through sext; ff. 101v, 105, 104, 102, none; ff. 103, 108, 109, 107, 106, 47, vespers; ff. 48-52 [f. 52v, ruled, but blank], compline; ff. 53-70v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 71-74: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 74v-77: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 77v: Office of the Dead, misbound and should be read as follows: ff. 77v, 112, 111, 110, 113, 114, 117, 116, 115, 118-150; ff. 150v-157: Suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Sebastian, Nicholas, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Genevieve; f. 157v, ruled, but blank; ff. 158-165v: Prayers in French.

mssHM 1133

Missal, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-217v. [Missal, use of Rome]. Latin. ff. 1-6v, Graded calendar; f. 7r-v [added in another hand], Exorcism; ff. 8-9v, Holy Water service; f. 10 [added], Service for the Bread of St. Nicholas of Tolentino; f. 10v, blank; ff. 11-91v, masses for the Temporale, Advent to Easter; ff. 91v-92v, Rubrics; ff. 92v-94v, Ordinary of the Mass; ff. 94v-95v, Mass of Raphael archangel; ff. 96-98v [different hand], Mass and prayers to exorcise a demon, with feminine forms suprascript; ff. 99-100v, Prefaces; ff. 101-104v, Canon of the Mass; ff. 104v-143, Temporale, Easter Sunday through the 24th Sunday after Pentecost; ff. 143-179v, Sanctorale, Andrew through Catherine; ff. 179v-196v, Common of Saints; ff. 196v-201v, Votive masses; ff. 201v-206, Masses for the Dead; ff. 206v-214v, Collect, secret and postcommunion of the votive masses; ff. 214v-217, Benedictions, ending"Explicit feliciter per me fratrem Ignatium de Mediolano ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini 1476 die 12 novembris circa horam tertiam noctis tempore vicariatus Reverendi patris fratris Paulini de Mediolano. Laus deo, pax vivis et requies defunctis. Amen.".

mssHM 1042

Hymnal for vespers : [manuscript]

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