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1. Book of hours : use of Sarum
- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1410]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 100
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 377
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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:
- In Latin and Middle English., Description of volume, in Latin, signed WA.1804 on recto of front flyleaf., Ownership inscription of Jone Ffyn on verso of front flyleaf., Calendar contains three notes concerning births and a marriage of Cheyne family members., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Script: gothic bookhand., 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., and Binding: modern red velvet; red morocco box.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours : use of Sarum
2. [Ferial Psalter].
- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Music Deposit 59
- Image Count:
- 275
- Abstract:
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Psalterium Davidicum ad usam Anglicanum, cum antiphonis et hymnis ecclesiae, calalendario, et Officio Defunctorum
- Description:
- In Latin., Six leaves containing Psalms 24-25, 51-52, 110-112 are missing., Includes musical notation for the antiphons; neumes on red four-line staff., Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features., 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 Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Psalters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Ferial Psalter].
