Scale of perfection : [manuscript]

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  Scale of perfection : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  HM 112 consists of 2 parts, the first being ff. 1-12v (the chapter list and chapters 1 through most of 16), written in the beginning of the fifteenth century; the second part, ff. 13-78v, copied towards the middle of the century: the matching page dimensions suggest that the second was an intentional completion of the earlier, supposedly unfinished portion. HM 112 itself was the second part of a larger manuscript of which the first is now London, Brit. Lib. Add. 10052, the Speculum religiosorum by Walter, canon of Holy Trinity in London, while the third is now Brit. Lib. Add. 10053, containing, among other texts, Edmund Rich's Speculum ecclesie in English and Hilton's Eight Chapters. The quires in all 3 manuscripts are signed in roman numerals in the lower right corner of the last leaf verso: in Add. 10052, i-ix; in HM 112, x-xvii (but with the penultimate full quire, i.e. now quire 8, skipped; the last 3 leaves, all singletons, have no roman numeral); in Add. 10053, xviii (on the first leaf, a singleton, presumably the end of the last quire in HM 112), then xix-xxix followed by 4 more quires (the first 2 labelled a and b); it would thus appear that the roman numerals represent an effort to unite separate materials. Add. 10053, ff. 1-83 and, possibly with some variations, ff. 85-98, are by the same hand as the second part of HM 112. The name of John Pery is associated with both: in HM 112, on f. 78v, the explicit reads ". . . quod I. Pery" (perhaps in a different hand from the rest of the explicit); in Add. 10053, on f. 29 "quod I. Pery" and on f. 83 "Orate pro anima domini Iohannis Pery canonici ecclesie sancte trinitatis london. infra algate qui hunc librum fieri fecit cuius anime propicietur deus Amen." Span folios: ff. 1-78v. Other Decoration: 4-, 3- and 2-line initials done in both pts. by the same flourisher, in blue with red penwork; the opening initial, f. 4, 6-line, in parted red and blue infilled with void leaf designs and flourished in red; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; paragraph marks usually in red only (a few in blue). HM 112 consists of 2 parts, the first being ff. 1-12v (the chapter list and chapters 1 through most of 16), written in the beginning of the fifteenth century; the second part, ff. 13-78v, copied towards the middle of the century, probably as an intentional completion of the earlier, supposedly unfinished portion. Numerous corrections and insertions in more than one hand (one probably Pery's).

  mssHM 112

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  Book of Hours, use of the congregation of Windesheim : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-120v. [Book of Hours]: f. 1v: coat of arms; ff. 2-11v: Calendar, with the months run on; f. 12r-v, blank; ff. 13-19v: Short hours of the Cross and prayers; ff. 20-52v: Hours of the Virgin, use of the congregation of Windesheim; ff. 53-65v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 66-84v: [f. 66, blank], Office of the Dead with 3 lessons at matins; ff. 85-107: Prayers in Latin including the votive mass of the Virgin, the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata (masculine forms); ff. 107v-114v: Suffrages of one's guardian angel, Andrew, Stephen, Christopher [masculine forms], Martin, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Margaret, All Saints; ff. 115-120v: Prayers for various occasions.

  mssHM 1131

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  Book of Hours, in Dutch : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-142v. [Book of Hours]: f. lr-v: Computistic texts; ff. 2-13v: Full calendar; f. 14r-v, blank, except for notes; ff. 15-45: Hours of the Virgin (this text and others in the compilation of Geert Grote); ff. 45v-65v: Long hours of the Cross; ff. 65v-83: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; ff. 83-97v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 97v-106v: Prayers to the Virgin, one's guardian angel, Michael, Andrew, Lawrence, Jerome, Agnes, Dorothy, Catherine, Barbara, Mary Magdalene, Cecilia, Margaret, the 11,000 Virgins, Agatha, Gertrude, Lucia and Scholastica; f. 107r-v: Christmas hymn; ff. 108-110v: Communion prayers; f. 110v: Sayings attributed to Augustine; ff. 111-142v: Office of the Dead.

  mssHM 1155

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  Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-187v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar; ff. 7-84v: Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use, missing the illuminated opening leaves before ff. 7, 22, 55, 65, 69 and 77, with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Edmund king and martyr, Lawrence, Stephen, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, and for peace; ff. 85-118v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany; ff. 119-184v: Office of the Dead, Sarum use (one leaf missing before f. 131 with loss of text); ff. 185-186: [added, 14th/15th c.] St. Gregory's Trental; f. 186v: [added, 14th/15th c., in a different hand from above]: Advowsons of 35 churches mainly in Somersetshire and in Devonshire; f. 187: [added, early 14th c.] Prophecy of the Lily, the Lion and the Son of Man; f. 187v: [added, early 14th c., in the same hand as the prophecy]: Reasons for the deposition of anti-Pope John XXIII.

  mssHM 1346

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  Book of Hours, use of Paris[?] : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-141v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-11v: Full calendar in French; ff. 12-22v: Pericopes of the Gospels, the Obsecro te, the O Intemerata, and a prayer to Jesus; ff. 23-69: Hours of the Virgin, possibly of the use of Paris; f. 69v, ruled, but blank; ff. 70-75: Short hours of the Cross, missing the opening leaf; ff. 75v-80v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 80v-84v: Catena mainly from John 19, 1-34 sparsim, and prayers; ff. 85-98: Penitential psalms, beginning defectively, and litany; f. 98v, ruled, but blank; ff. 99-138v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris, beginning and ending defectively; ff. 139-141: Prayer to the Virgin and suffrage of Christopher. f. 141v, blank.

  mssHM 1156

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  Book of Hours, use of Sens[?] : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-115v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; ff. 13-15: [f. 13, blank], Pericope from John; ff. 15v-63: Hours of the Virgin, possibly in the use of Sens; ff. 63v-66: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 66v-69: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 69v-84: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 84v-106: Office of the Dead, 3 lessons; ff. 106v-115v: Obsecro te and suffrages of Michael, James, Andrew, George, Adrian, Martin, Nicholas, Eligius, Maturinus, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria.

  mssHM 1153