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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-159: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar, with major feasts in blue or gold; f. 13: [Psalm 42] Iudica me deus et discerne causam meam de gente ...; ff. 13v-91v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome with short hours of the Cross and the Holy Spirit worked in, and on f. 81v, suffrage to Anthony abbot; ff. 92-110: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 110-149: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 149v-151: Pericope from the Gospel of John; ff. 151v-159: Prayers in Latin and French, a list of the Ten and the Five Commandments, and a suffrage and mass of Genulph; f. 159v, blank.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1500 and 1515]
Call number: mssHM 1139
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The nineteenth century provenance of this manuscript is laid out on the verso of a small slip of paper, now tipped in before the first flyleaf, "This missal was bought by Mr. W. Bateman at the sale of the library of Mr. W. Gates [?] of Manchester [blank space] 1829. It then passed by exchange into the possession of Mr. Duncalf at whose death in 18--[left blank] it was purchased along with other books by Mr. James Lowe of Macclesfield from whom I bought it on the 27th of February 1851. [signed] Thomas Bateman." The recto of this slip of paper is inscribed by William Bateman (1787-1835), father of the above Thomas Bateman, "This Missal is the property of the Rev. John Duncalf, Incumbent of Peak Forest, and has been this day placed in my keeping on account of the dampness of his residence, Wetstone Hall, near Tideswell. [signed] Mr. Wm. Bateman, Middleton, 4 December 1834." Bateman sale, sold by order of the Court of Chancery, Sotheby's, 25 May 1893, lot 1367 to Quaritch. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Cat. (1909) pp. 148-49; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2367 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

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