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Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin with English additions : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-103v. Book of Hours, use of Sarum. Latin; English. On ff. 1-6v, calendar; ff. 7-35v, Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use with suffrages after lauds; f. 36r-v, added tale in English on the efficacy of saying Ps. 129; ff. 37-43, Penitential psalms; ff. 43-45, Gradual psalms mainly by cue; ff. 45-49v, Litany; ff. 50-68, Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 68-78v, Commendation of Souls; ff. 87v-93v, Fifteen Oes; ff. 93v-103v, prayers; f. 103v and f. v, added maxims in English, attributed to Solomon.
Type
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Date
[between 1425 and 1450]
Call number
mssHM 64538
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from Sam Fogg, January 2003. Written in England; the saints in the calendar suggest a Worcester connection. English texts added soon afterwards; inscribed, s. XV, with the names "hubert / han[...] [or har...?]" (f. i), "Jefris"(? or Joh(an)nis) (inner face of back board), "Heywod" in calligraphic script (f. vi verso); traces of rectangular and circular/polygonal sewn-in devotional images (?) (ff. iv verso, vii verso); flyleaves with various pen-trials; references to popes and Thomas Becket erased probably in s. XVImed. Inscribed, s. XVIII, "Sam: Denton" (f. i); the only man of this name listed by Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, died in 1626, but Emden, Alumni Oxonienses, lists a watchmaker who was made privilegiatus in 1774. Thomas Kerrich (1748-1828), artist, antiquary, president of Magdalen College, Cambridge (1789-1796), and Cambridge University Librarian (on whom see ODNB); inscribed "T. Kerrich / M.[agdalene] C.[ollege] C.[ambridge] / 1792" (f. ii, and similarly on f. iii). Inscribed in pencil, s. XX, "Early XV sæc. / c. 1430" (f. i) and "Book of Hours / 1430" (inner face of front board). Sold at Sotheby's, July 6, 2000, lot 74, bought by Fogg. Sam Fogg Rare Books Ltd, London, with his stock number "8328" (inner face of the front board).
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
80 x 108 mm
Associated people
Kerrich, Thomas, (1740-1814,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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