Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a book of hours according to the Use of Sarum. The Latin text is followed by a brief treatise in Middle English on prayer, titled "Here begynneth in what man[ner] preyer sholde be vsed." The volume concludes with prayers in Latin and Middle English.
Alternative Title:
Book of hours
Description:
Binding: modern red velvet; red morocco box., Calendar contains three notes concerning births and a marriage of Cheyne family members., Decoration: three historiated initials with full-page borders; one smaller historiated initials and seven large foliate initials with borders. many smaller initals in gold with blue penwork or in blue with red penwork., Description of volume, in Latin, signed WA.1804 on recto of front flyleaf., Formerly owned by the Chenye (Cheney) family; Jone Ffyn; Henry Huth; Edward Cheney. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Ownership inscription of Jone Ffyn on verso of front flyleaf., and Script: gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church.--Book of hours. and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Bequest of George P. and Mary P. Milmine, Dec. 1986., Binding: contemporay Dülmen binding of the blind-stamped leather over wooden boards; original upper clasps (clasp-hooks wanting)., Bound in Beinecke copy are four leaves from a twelfth-century ms. on parchment (probably a breviary) with musical notation in neumes., Differs from description of BM 15th cent., II, p. 423 in that quire g has 10 ff. (not 8), and quire G has 8 ff. (not 10)., Provenance: "Liber p[ri]m[u]s decretalis D[omini] H[er]bordi Wernyngh de Borchorst pastoris in Vreden atq[ue] Rectoris p[ri]mi altar[is] eccl[es]is ... [unidentified proper name"]. "In a different hand: Quem idem donauit post morte[m] domui Castrimarie p[ro]pe Dulmania[m] Ord[inis] Carthusien[sis] cum multis aliis quare merito ... fideliter pro eodem etc." (ms. on 1 a); "W.S. Thorpe 1871" (ms. on 1a); "R.B. Anderson, Madison, Wis." (stamp on 1a); "I have had the pleasure of being the happy possessor ... and am glad to know that it passes from me into Mr. John E. Burton's appreciative hands ... May 8, 1882. R.B. Anderson" (ms. on 1a); owned by George P. Milmine., and Rubricated throughout; capital spaces with guide-letters, capitals supplied in red or blue; book numbers in red in upper center margin of each page; headings in ms. in upper right corner of each recto.
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Rasmus Björn,--1846-1936--Stamp and presentation inscription to J.E. Burton., Burton, John E.--Presentation inscription from R.B. Anderson., Catholic Church. Breviary (Ms. 12th cent.) 797 % sp3, Gregory IX, Pope, ca. 1170-1241., Kartause Marienburg (Weddern, Germany) Inscription., Milmine, George--Ownership., and Wernyngh de Borchorst, Herbordus--Inscription.
Manuscript on parchment of a gradual containing the Mass of the Dead, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and other feasts.
Description:
Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: rubrics in red; red stroking of majuscules; red or blue 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 1- or 2-line flourished initials with primitive penwork in the contrasting color; litterae duplices in various places., Notation in cheironomic neumes., Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria., and Signature of 18th-cent. owner on front flyleaf: "Ex museo Josephi de Fabert, D.M. 1782."
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Chants), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Book of hours (Sarum use) and Hore Beate Marie ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis
Description:
Colophon: Explicu[n]t Hore Beate Marie, secundu[m] vsum Sar[um], totaliter ad longum, cu[m] multis pulcherrimis orationibus et indulge[n]tijs iam ultimo abiectis. Impresse Parisijs in edibus Francisci Regnault alme vniuersitatis Parisiensis librarij iurati. Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo. Die vltima Aprilis., Date of publication follows title on t.p., Description based upon incomplete copy at Beinecke Library., Foliation error: leaf clxxvi numbered lxxvi., Imperfect: wanting leaves xli-cxii; slight worming; repair to leaves clxxi and [4] at end. Ms. notes by Sir Thomas More, including the prayer in English written in the Tower before his death. Inscription on front paste-down: Liber quonda[m] Thomae Mori militis in multis locis manu sua propria inscriptus. Bound as no. 1 of 2 titles with: Catholic Church. [Psalter (Sarum use)] Psalterium cum hymnis secundu[m] vsum & co[n]suitudine[m] Sarum et Eboracen[sis]. Paris, 1522. To view other titles, search by call number MS Vault More., In Latin, with some English passages., Regnault's device on 2b4v., Signature error: A1,2 signed B1,2., Signatures: A-C⁸ a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ 2a⁶ 2b⁴., and Table of contents at end.
Publisher:
Apud Franciscu[m] Regnault, in vico Sancti Jacobi, ad signu[m] Elephantis,
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, and Regnault, François, d. ca. 1540, bookseller
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, of a processional according to the use of Sarum. The manuscript, which is apparently lacking two gatherings and includes fourteen later additions, features extensive musical notation on 4-line staves.
Alternative Title:
Processional.
Description:
Anathema in Middle English verse on the verso of the second flyleaf: "This bok is on and goddys crus ys anodur/He that stel the ton mot haue the todyr" in a fifteenth-century hand., Annotation on verso of nineteenth-century endpaper, in pencil, identifying the text as a "Sarum Processional," dated 1847., Binding: nineteenth-century black morocco, gilt; marbled endpapers. JHS monogram framing cross centered on both covers. Title in gilt on black leather tag on spine., Decoration: musical notation on 4-line staves, red and blue penwork initials, rubrics, and blue paragraph marks. Numerous initials in brown ink, some decorated with faces and grotesques., Ex libris W. J. Birkbeck. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Latin; ownership inscription and anathema in Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 23 lines., Numerous other early ownership inscriptions and pen trials on front flyleaves., Ownership inscription for the parish church of St. Mary, Redgrave, Suffolk: "Iste liber constat de Redgrave" in a fifteenth-century hand., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Name):
Birkbeck, W. J.--(William John),--1859-1916--Bookplate., Catholic Church.--Processional (Salisbury), and Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)
anno virginei part[ibus] .Mccccc.xxij. Die vero .vij. mensis Junij. [1522]
Call Number:
MS Vault More
Image Count:
342
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Psalter (Sarum use), Psalter (York use), and Psalterium cum hymnis secundum usum et consuetudinem Sarum et Eboracensis
Description:
At head of title: S[an]cta[s] trinitas vnus Deus miserere nobis. Below t.p. ill.: Fortuna opes auferre: non animu[m] potest., Birckman's device on E4v., Imperfect: wanting leaves [1]-[8], cxxix-cxlviij, and [2] at end. Sir Thomas More's copy, with his ms. notes. Inscription on front paste-down: Liber quonda[m] Thomae Mori militis in multis locis manu sua propria inscriptus. Bound as no. 2 of 2 titles with: Catholic Church. [Book of hours] Hore Beate Marie ad vsum ecclesie Sarisburiensis. Paris, 1530. To view other titles, search by call number MS Vault More., Imprint from colophon., Includes music., Printed in red and black throughout., and Signatures: [cross]⁸ a-s⁸ t⁴ A-D⁸ E⁴.
Publisher:
Expe[n]sis & sumptibus honesti mercatoris Francisci Byrckman,
Subject (Name):
Birckman, Franz, d. 1530, bookseller., Birckman, Franz, d. 1530, publisher., Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts, Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, and Riviere & Son, binder
Manuscript on parchment of a ferial psalter containing a calendar, a psalter with hymns and antiphons, canticles, a litany, and the Office of the Dead.
Description:
Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards., Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders., and Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Psalters.
Contains 12 illuminated historiated initial miniatures, 3 additional miniatures, and 833 large and small ornamental initials and marginal decorations., From the Belle Skinner Collection., Gradual for the use of the monks of the Congregation of St. Justina, of the Order of St. Benedict, at the monastery of St. Peter of Saviliano., Ms., in red and black., and On last leaf: Istud Graduale est monachorum congregationis Sancte Iustine ordinis Sancti Benedicti de obseruantia deputatum monasterio Sancti Petri de Sauiliano.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines--Italy--Savigliano., San Pietro (Monastery : Savigliano, Italy), and Skinner, Belle--Provenance.