Book of Hours, Sarum use
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Description
- Title
- Book of Hours, Sarum use
- Contributor
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Published / Created
- ca. 1250
- Publication Place
- Oxford [?]
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (thick, fuzzy on hair side) of a Book of Hours, followed by 3 short devotional texts in French.
- Description
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Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Rigid vellum case with note on spine "MS. Circa 1400". Red edges. Bound by Birdsell and Son (Northampton, 1792 and later).
Manuscript has been heavily trimmed with loss of marginal decoration; staining, rubbing throughout affects illumination.
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1935 by Thomas E. Marston.
Script: Written in two styles of script: large gothic bookhands, often with only 3-4 words per line, by three scribes for ff. 1r, 2r-91r, 93r-115v, respectively; Anglicana scripts for ff. 1v, 91v-92v (added prayers).
The codex, now in fragmentary condition with no miniatures extant, contains a sequence of historiated initials, some badly rubbed. Large historiated initials, 3-line, pink or blue with white designs on blue square ground framed with gold; both initial and frame edged in black; figures on gold ground, often rubbed and flaked; elongated dragons extend into margins for ascenders, as in initial D. Small historiated initials, 2-line, of similar designs and colors, but on cusped gold grounds. Other text divisions marked by 2-line initials, pink, orange, blue with simple foliage motifs in the same colors and yellow, all with designs in white and on square or cusped gold grounds that often extend far into margins. Initials on ff. 93-115 are somewhat more delicate in appearance and presumably by a different hand than those on ff. 2-91. 1-line initials in red with blue penwork designs alternate with opposing color scheme. Elaborate line-fillers, including fish and heads of long-beaked beasts, for litany (art. 5). Headings in red, ff. 2-91 only. - Extent
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148 x 111 (112 x 60) mm.
col. ill.
ff. i (modern parchment) + 115 (modern pagination, upper right; modern foliation, lower right) - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 22
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Historiated initials
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts - Material
- parchment
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Subject (Topic)
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Books of hours
Devotional literature, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
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Book of Hours, Sarum Use. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 22.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9805815
- Object ID (OID)
- 2013548
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars022.htm