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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. Speculum Christiani
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 96
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a version of this fourteenth-century pastoral manual. The text is in eight sections, or Tabulae, in Latin, with extensive passages in Middle English prose and interpolated Middle English verse
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle English., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., Script: written in an English bookhand., Decoration: red and blue initials with contrasting penwork., and Binding: nineteenth-century morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Christian life, English poetry, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Speculum Christiani
