Manuscripts
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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Text is in Latin; with decorated initials and illuminated border.
mssHM 82458
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-168v: [Book of Hours]: f. 3v: Rubric for the Hours of the Virgin although the text itself is no longer present; ff. 4-50v: Hours of the Passion; f. 51r-v, blank; ff. 52-74: Hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 74v, blank; ff. 75-114v: Long hours of the Trinity; ff. 115-136v: Suffrages of Michael, All Angels, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Andrew, James the Greater, All Apostles, Stephen, Denis, Lawrence, Christopher, All Martyrs, Martin, Nicholas, Anthony abbot, Godo, Maurus, All Confessors, Mary Magdalene, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Virgins, All Saints, for peace; ff. 137-139: Prayers to Jesus and to the Trinity; ff. 139v-152v: 64 short prayers for the Sundays of the year and major feasts; ff. 153-154v: Prayers for various occasions; ff. 155-166v: Prayers including one to William (O Guillerme pastor bone). ff. 167-168v, blank.
mssHM 1179
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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
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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
A collection of leaves from unidentified antiphonals and books of hours; also a vellum binding and modern ephemera. This collection includes: HM 82932 (1) - Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, two leaves of a copy of his Four Books of Sentences; HM 82932 (2-5) - 9 leaves from various antiphonals, with black square notes set on red four line staves with decorated initials; HM 82932 (6-16) - 38 leaves from various books of hours, with mostly black and red ink, decorated initials and illuminated borders.
mssHM 82932 (1-16)
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Manuscripts
Part I. [Book of Hours, use of Rome]: ff. 1-12v: calendar [f. 13r-v, blank]; ff. 14-19: pericopes of the Gospels [ff. 19v-20v, ruled, but blank]; ff. 21-96v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome with changes for Advent; ff. 97-116v: penitential psalms and litany, including Martialis as the last of the apostles; ff. 117-160v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome. Hours for each day of the week, as follow: ff. 161-164v: Short hours of the Trinity; ff. 165-168v: Short hours of the Dead; ff. 169-174v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 175-178v: Short hours of All Saints; ff. 179-182v: Short hours of the Eucharist; ff. 183-190v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 191-194v: Short hours of the Virgin; ff. 195-198v: Short hours of St. Catherine; ff. 199-202: Septem gaudia beate marie virginis [f. 202v, blank]. Part II. [Prayerbook in Latin and Occitan]. ff. 203-236: Prayers in Latin; ff. 236-244v: Penitential material in Occitan.
mssHM 1104