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Compendium theologicae veritatis : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-219v. [Hugo Ripelin] Compendium theologicae veritatis. Latin. Book 1 on God and the Trinity; Book 2 on the Creation of the World; Book 3 on the corruption of sin; Book 4 on the incarnation of Christ; Book 5 on the sufficiency of grace; Book 6 on the sacraments; Book 7 on the four last things.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1350 and 1399]
Call number: mssHM 71719
Creator: Hugo (approximately 1210-approximately 1270)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Quaritch catalogue 820 (1961) no. 10. Bought by H. P. Kraus, his catalogue 111 (1965) no. 1. Bought in May 1969 by a private collector from Helmut Schumann (Kraus). Sotheby's, 7 July 2009, lot 22 to the Huntington Library.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 90 x 170 mm
Associated people: Albertus, (1193?-1280,)
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Book of Hours, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-220v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-10v: full calendar in Dutch; f. 10r-v: computistic notes; ff. 11-40: Hours of the Virgin, in the Middle Dutch compilation of Geert Grote; ff. 40v-42v: Prayers to the Virgin; ff. 43-59v: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; ff. 59v-60v: Prayers to God and Christ, with indulgences; loss of one leaf between ff. 60-61, with resulting loss of text; ff. 61-78: Long hours of the Cross, beginning imperfectly due to loss of the leaf between ff. 60-61; ff. 78-91v: Prayers on the Passion of Christ; ff. 92-106v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 106v-107v: Prayers to Christ; ff. 108-176v: Prayers for the sanctorale; ff. 177-184v: Prayers for Communion; ff. 184v-188v: Prayers to Christ and to God the Father; ff. 189-216v: Office of the Dead, use of Utrecht; ff. 216v-220v: Prayers with indulgences.

mssHM 1127

Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-193v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar with major feasts in red; ff. 13-21: [f. 13, blank], Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; f. 21v, ruled, but blank; ff. 22-40v: [f. 22, blank], Prayer to the Trinity and suffrages of John the Baptist, George, Christopher, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara; ff. 41-89v: [f. 41, blank], Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem anglie, with, after lauds, suffrages of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Lawrence, Stephen, Thomas of Canterbury (ff. 61v-62, erasures), Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, for peace, and with the hours of the Cross worked in; ff. 89v-103: Fifteen Joys, farcing of the Salve Regina, O Intemerata, Obsecro te, Seven Joys; f. 103v, ruled, but blank; ff. 104-113: Prayers to God and to Christ; f. 113v, ruled, but blank; ff. 114-130v: [f. 109, blank on recto, with illumination of the Last Judgment on the verso, has been misbound and should be placed here], Penitential psalms, gradual psalms (cues only of the first 12), and litany; ff. 131-155: [f. 131, blank], Office of the Dead, Sarum use; f. 155v, ruled but blank; ff. 156-170: [f. 156, blank], Commendation of souls; f. 170v, ruled, but blank; ff. 171-177: [f. 171, blank], Psalms of the Passion; ff. 177-192v: Psalter of St. Jerome; f. 178v, ruled, but blank; f. 179, blank; f. 193r-v: ruled, but blank, except for prayers added, 17th century, including one in English.

mssHM 1144

Crypto-Catholic Shrewsbury prayer book : manuscript

Manuscripts

1. f. 1r-v. Morning prayer. Lighten myne eyes o Lorde, least at any tyme I oversleepe in sinne, and least myne enemy doe say I have prevailed against him ... 2. ff. 1v-2r. Evening prayer. Allmighty and everlasting God, I render thee most heart thanckes, for that thou has vouchsafed of thy great mercy and goodnes, to preserve mee this day from all evill ... 3. ff. 2r-3v. A prayer to stirre up the minde to devotion in prayer. Allmighty and most mercifull Father, unto thee all the heavenly company of the Celestiall cytie, all the blessed orders of saved spirits do wth due reverence sing continuall glorie and everlasting praise ... 4. ff. 3v-10r. A confession of my sinnes & weaknesses wth petitions for the pardoning of the one, & strengthening of ye other. Have mercie vpon mee and spare mee good Lorde, and suffer mee not to perish in my sinne ... 5. ff. 10r-18r. Another confession wth such like petitions. Graunt me most mercifull God, fervently to desire such thinges, as may bee acceptable and pleasing unto thee, wth wisedome to serch after those, not to bee deceived in the knowledge of those, and unfainedly to accomplish the doing of those ... 6. f. 18r. A prayer desiering God to order & direct mee. Lorde God thou knowest what thing is to mee most profitable to doe, this or that, after thy will: ... 7. ff. 18v-19r. A thankesgiving for my beeing. O God thou mightest have kept mee from being at all, and (being) thou maist make mee, as if I never had been, but seeing of they wonderfull goodnes, also doost suffer mee still to bee: ... 8. ff. 19r-20r. Before the receiving of the holy Sacrament. O Benigne Jesu that wouldest suffer so many grevous paynes, yea death itself for love of mankinde, great and marveilous is they charity, give mee grace to receive, thy precious body in forme of bread this day, with purity of heart and cleanes of soule, with love, dread, and stedfast beleef. ... 9. ff. 20v-21r. After receiving the holy Sacrament. Thankes bee unto thee o holy Father God Almyghty, that thou didst vouchsaufe of thy great pity, to send thy only sonne from thy high throne into this vale of woe & miserye, ... 10. ff. 21r-22v. A prayer or thanckesgiving unto ye Holy Trinity. O Blessed Lorde God, Father, Sonne and Holy Ghost, three personnes and one God, my Lorde, my God, my maker, my redeemer, my norisher, my defender, my sweetnes, my mercy, my refuge, my strength, my victory, my joy, and my glory eternall; I laud thee, I glorifie thee, I honor thee. ... 11. ff. 22v-24v. Prayers in Sicknesse. O Sweete Jesu, I desire nor life, nor death, but they most holy will. Thee O Lorde I looke for, bee it unto mee according to thy pleasure. If thou wilt sweete Jesus that I dye, receive my soule ... 12. ff. 24v-25r. A prayer for a sick body ready to die. Have mercy and spare him o Lorde; deliver him from thine anger, from an evill death, from the danger of death; from the paines of hell, from all evill, from the power of the Devill. ... 13. ff. 25r-26r. Christ deliver thee from all torment, who was crucified for thee. Christ deliver thee from death, who hath vouchsafed to dye for thee; Christ the sonne of the living god, place thee in the garden of his paradise, which alwaies is pleasant and flourishing ...

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Part 1. ff. 5-93v. [Book of Hours, use of Rome] ff. 5-7v: full calendar, usually alternating red and blue with major feasts in gold, in 2 columns, each of one month; [f. 8, blank], ff. 8v-18v: pericopes of the Gospels, and the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata (both with masculine forms); [f. 19, blank], ff. 19v-51v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome with changed office for Advent and with several prayers; [f. 52, blank], ff. 52v-60v: penitential psalms and litany; [f. 61, blank], ff. 61v-63v: Short hours of the Cross; [f. 64, blank], ff. 64v-66: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 66v-85: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 85v-93v: suffrage of the Trinity and other prayers to God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit, suffrages of the Holy Face, Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, James the Greater, All Apostles, Stephen, Lawrence, Christopher [""et michi famulo tuo N""], Sebastian, Many Martyrs, Nicholas, Anthony abbot, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara, Apollonia. Part 2. ff. 1-4 (the versos), 94-98 (the rectos). [Book of hours]: Nine opening leaves (thus the illuminations) from sections of a book of hours.

mssHM 1101

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, use of Chartres : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-162v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v: Prayers; ff. 9-11v: Pericopes of the Gospels (but missing the pericope from John); ff. 12-49: Hours of the Virgin, use of Chartres; ff. 49v-51: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 51v-53: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 53v-65: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 65v-95v: Office of the Dead, use of Chartres, and prayers; ff. 96-112v: Prayers, mainly to the persons of the Trinity; ff. 113-124: Prayers mainly relating to the Eucharist; ff. 124-136: Prayers hierarchically arranged (all saints, angels, apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins) and suffrages of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Eutropius, Stephen, Denis, Sebastian, George, Benedict, Francis, Anthony abbot, Nicholas, Martin, Joachim, Anne, Avia, Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene, Barbara, Apollonia, Opportuna, Fiacre, Maturinus, James the Greater; ff. 136-141v: Passion according to John; ff. 141v-146: Suffrages of Peter, Paul, Andrew, John the Evangelist, James the Greater, Bartholomew, Matthew the Evangelist, Thomas the Apostle, Philip and James the Less, Simon and Jude, Matthias the Apostle, Barnabas, Mark, Luke, the Innocents; ff. 146v-162v: Prayers to God, suffrages of Leonard, Lupus, the Tears of Christ, Renatus, Cosmas and Damian, Margaret, the Verses of St. Bernard, other prayers, suffrages of Christopher and Lawrence, and other prayers.

mssHM 1150

Compendium theologicae veritatis : [manuscript]

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