<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Ordinal for Brigittine use, with psalter and prayers</dc:title><dc:date>approximately 1460-approximately 1500.</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc:language>enm</dc:language><dc:description>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</dc:description><dc:description>In Latin and Middle English.</dc:description><dc:description>Ordinal text opens: The Ordinal of diuyne seruice and the self seruice for the systers of the odir of Seynt Sauiour.</dc:description><dc:description>Layout: single columns of 24 lines.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: late gothica textualis.</dc:description><dc:description>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).</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: eighteenth-century English mottled calf over wooden boards.</dc:description><dc:description>Title devised by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Bookseller description available.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>