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Portiforium, use of Sarum : [manuscript]

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Description: Part 1. ff. 1-45v. [Portiforium, Sarum use]. Latin. ff. 1-7v: Day offices and mass of Thomas of Canterbury; ff. 8-19: Day offices and mass of All Saints; f. 19: Variant blessings for the seventh lesson at matins, depending upon the gospels; ff. 19v-20v: Memoriae of the Cross, the Virgin Mary, and All Saints.; ff. 21-45v: Variants for the office of the Virgin Mary on different days and during different liturgical seasons. Part 2. ff. 46-62v, f. iv verso. [Prayers]. Latin. ff. 46-52v: The Fifteen Oes of St Bridget; ff. 52v-53: Prayer, written for a female supplicant: "Deus qui Susannam a falso crimine liberasti. . ."; ff. 53-54v: Prayer to the Name of Jesus; ff. . 54v-55v: Prayers to be said at mass beginning: "Ave verum corpus natum. . . "; ff. 55v-56v: Four prayers to the Trinity; ff. 56v-58v: Three prayers to the Virgin Mary, the first written for a male supplicant; ff. 58v, 60r-v: Prayer to Christ; f. 60v: The opening words of a prayer "Te deprecor sancta maria mater; f. 59r-v: The prayer Obsecro te, to be said by a supplicant named William, beginning imperfectly; f. 59v, A prayer to the Virgin; f. 61: A version of the Arma Christi; ff. 61-62: The Verses of St. Bernard; f. 62: A suffrage of the Archangel Gabriel; f. 62r-v: A prayer for strength against the devil; f. iv verso: An excerpt from a Passio of Thomas of Canterbury.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1350 and 1399]
Call number: mssHM 55665
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs, 1994. Additions made for an owner named William (f. 59); inscribed, s. XV?, "Wyllyam M[...]" (f. ii, smudged). John Peterell(?), s. XV, inscribed: "Iste liber constat domino ihon' payterell [added in paler ink:] alliter(?) hartecu(m)be" (f. i). Inscribed, s. XVII(?) with a note that Thomas Becket succeeded Archbishop Theobald on the latter's death in 1162 (f. iv verso). Francis Powell (d. 1758), probably between 1719 and 1728; he received his BA at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1719-1720, MA in 1728, and was prebendary of Salisbury 1742-1758 (Venn, Alumni, III, 387). Thomas Fa[l?]kner, s. XVIII1: inscribed "E libris Thomae Fakner / ex dono Francisci Powell Aul. Clar. A.B.". An eight-line note on a slip of paper stuck to the front pastedown, s. XIX, attributes the manuscript to s. XIII. Sold at Christie's, 29 June 1994, lot 34 to Maggs for the Huntington Library.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 85 x 120 mm
Associated organizations: Catholic Church.; Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-80v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-3v: misbound leaves, now with suffrage of Christopher, illegible erased notes, miniature of Christopher, blank leaf, and a miniature of the Annunciation; ff. 4-6v: Calendar, beginning defectively at July; ff. 7-8v: misbound leaves, now a blank leaf, miniature of Veronica, suffrage of John the Baptist, and a blank leaf; ff. 9-27v: Hours of the Virgin, apparently Sarum use, 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, Stephen, Lawrence, Thomas of Canterbury, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, for peace, and other prayers; ff. 28-35v: Prayers to the Virgin; ff. 36-40: Prayers to Christ; f. 40v, blank except for the added note, ""O cupid I graunt thy might is much for sure thou loveth thy dart to shent at such""; ff. 41-49: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany; f. 49v, blank except for an ownership note; f. 50, blank; ff. 50v-61v: Office of the Dead, Sarum use; f. 62, blank; ff. 62v-69v: Commendation of souls; added on f. 69v, ""blessed is he that keppethe godes commandemente and so is he that"" (ending here), and an invocation to Christopher; ff. 70-72v: Psalter of the Holy Cross; f. 73, blank; ff. 73v-80v: Psalter of St. Jerome; f. 80v, added in a cursive hand, prayer against the plague.

mssHM 28175

Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-147v. [Book of Hours, Sarum use]: ff. 3-8v, calendar with major feasts in red; ff. 9-14v, Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; ff. 15-27, prayer to the Trinity and suffrages of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, George, Christopher, Thomas of Canterbury, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara [f. 27v, blank]; ff. 28-63v, cursum beate marie Secundum sarum with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Lawrence, Stephen, Thomas of Canterbury, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, for peace and with hours of the Cross worked in; ff. 64-71v, 3 prayers to the Virgin (farcing of the Salve Regina; O Intemerata; Obsecro te, these last with masculine forms); ff. 72-75v, Seven Joys of the Virgin; ff. 76-79v, 3 prayers to Christ; ff. 80-81v, 6 prayers to the body of Christ; ff 82-97, penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany [f. 97v blank]; ff. 98-117, office of the dead, Sarum use; ff, 117v-128v, commendation of souls; ff. 129-133, psalms of the Passion; ff. 133v-145v, Psalter of St. Jerome [ff. 146-147v, blank].

mssHM 1087

Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-168v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 7-9v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit [f. 10r-v, blank]; ff. 11-12v: prayer to the Trinity; ff. 13-23v: Suffrages of John the Baptist, Thomas of Canterbury, George, Christopher, Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Barbara; ff. 24-30: Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; f. 30v, coat of arms; ff. 31-68v: Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use; suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Stephen, Lawrence, Thomas of Canterbury, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, for peace; short hours of the Cross worked in from lauds to compline; ff. 68v-80v: farcing of the Salve Regina, O Intemerata, Obsecro te, and other prayers; ff. 81-88v: prayers; ff. 89-105v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms (the first 12 by cue only), and a long litany, including ""Eswarde,"" Oswald, Alan, Quentin, Lambert, ""Wallepaxde"" among the martyrs; Remigius, Vedast, Bavo, Audoenus, Dunstan, Philibert, Leonard, Botulph, Amand among the confessors; Bridget, Christina, Genevieve, Sexburga, Milburga, Osyth, Radegundis, Anastasia among the virgins; ff. 106-127v: Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 128-140v: Commendation of souls; ff. 141-145v: Psalms of the Passion; ff. 145v-158v: psalter of St. Jerome [ff. 159-160v, blank]; ff. 161-168: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, and pericopes of the Gospels [f. 168v, ruled, but blank].

mssHM 1125

Book of Hours, use of St. Quentin : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-78v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-32v: Hours of the Virgin presumably of the use of St. Quentin; ff. 33-35: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 35v-38v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit and suffrages of Anthony abbot and Sebastian; ff. 39-48v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 49-63v: Office of the Dead with 3 lessons at matins; ff. 64-69: Prayers and suffrages of Anne, Michael, Quentin and Adrian; ff. 69-70v and by tie mark to f. 74r-v: Prayer of confession and repentance in French added in a different hand; f. 71r-v: Prayer to the Virgin in French, added by a third hand; ff. 72-76: Obsecro te and O Intemerata, both added by a fourth hand; f. 76v, blank; f. 77r-v: Prayer to the Virgin in French, added by a fifth hand. f. 78r-v, blank.

mssHM 1172

Book of Hours, Sarum and Utrecht uses, adapted for York use : [manuscript]

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

Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ...

mssHM 1265

Portiforium, use of Sarum : [manuscript]

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