textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)English (EN, ENG)
summary
Book of Hours, use of Sarum
extent
190 ff. (CCLL)ff. i + 192
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
235
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
155
justification : height (mm)
145
justification : width (mm)
88
condition
Several ff. wanting
note (deco)
1 historiated initial in tempera and gold8 large and numerous small illuminated initials
binding
16th-century brown calf, blind-stamped with panels by John Reynes of the royal arms, Tudor rose and instruments of the Passion; 2 modern brass clasps, rebacked
origDate : proposed date
c. 1440-1450; addition c. 1490
origPlace : proposed origin
Probably London, England
provenance
Given by Elizabeth Horne to the parish church of Sarsden (Oxfordshire) in 1541; Bateman of Middleton Hall, Derby; bought by B. Halliday in 1953; bought by Philip Hofer in 1953 and deposited in 1967; bequeathed in 1984
bibl
1983, Cambridge (Mass.), p. 127, fig. 145Bond & Faye 1962, p. 269Scott 1996, I, p. 72 n. 23 - II, p. 118, 3521955, Cambridge (Mass.), p. 21 n° 59Boston 2016, p. 175 n° 139Bond & Faye 1962, 267Wieck 1983, 127
