Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, containing 1) a complete copy of the Ordinal of divine service for the use of the Brigittine Order, ff. 1r-116v; 2) Calendar, with additional entries for the feasts of Saint Bridget, ff. 119r-123v; 3) Prayer in Middle English, f. 124r; 4) Psalter, ff. 125r-231v; and 5) Litany, ff. 231v-236v
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Ordinal text opens: The Ordinal of diuyne seruice and the self seruice for the systers of the odir of Seynt Sauiour., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: late gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. Line fillers in red or blue; numerous illuminated initials with floral extensions. Large illuminated miniature with wide floral borders of a nun kneeling and praying (text in banderol) before Saint Bridget (facing f. 1r). Large illuminated initial, gilt, with wide floral border (f. 1r). Large illuminated miniature with wide floral borders of a religious kneeling and praying (text in banderol) before King David playing his harp (f. 124v). Large illuminated initial, gilt, with wide floral border facing (f. 125r)., Binding: eighteenth-century English mottled calf over wooden boards., Title devised by cataloger., and Bookseller description available.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bridgettines
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Ordinals (Liturgical books), and Psalters
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Psalter in English, in the 8-part liturgical division, beginning defectively. Text is the later version of the Wycliffite translation of the Psalms. 2-7) Book of Hours, use of Sarum. 8) St. Jerome's Psalter, with introductory prayer and text followed by a suffrage to the Virgin. With Notes on Historia, Alegoria, Anagogia, Tropologia
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Script: Written in small, well formed gothic bookhand., Five 6- to 5-line initials at the liturgical divisions of the Psalter (Psalms 26, 52, 68, 80, 97; initials for Psalms 1, 38, and 109 missing, offset initials on ff. 35v, 109r, and 156r), pink and blue with white highlights against cusped gold grounds, filled with brown, blue, and pink foliage with curling foliate serifs; pink, blue and gold bar border in outer margin with foliate shoots, terminals and horizontal extensions full across in upper and lower margins. Eleven 5- to 4-line initials (ff. 139v, 158v, 161r, 162r, 163r, 163v, 164r, 165v, 168r, 169v, 176v), gold, edged in black against a cusped ground, quartered in blue and pink, with white highlights and floral hair-spray. 3-line initials, blue with red penwork throughout. Capitals alternating red and blue. Rubrics throughout. Red and blue line-fillers in litany., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Brown leather case, blind-tooled. Red edges. Smells like a Middleton binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
