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summary
Book of Hours and Psalter
note (text)
F. 19-25v°= Off. B. M. V.= OP; F. 193-199= Off. Defunct.= Roma; add. c. 1316, 1323 (CCLL)
extent
II+200+II ff. (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
270
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
180
note (deco)
In the Hours of the Passion, space reserved for a 9-line initial, while the 2-line initials have a rough, unfinished appearance and are probably by a different hand from those in the main body of text. In the Hours of the Virgin and the Psalter of St. Jerome, although the script resembles that of the main body of text, the decoration is as in the Hours of the Passion, with spaces reserved for a 6- and 5-line initial on ff. 19 and 26; line fillers left unfinished, with the gesso only, on ff. 8r-v, 10v, 26-27v, 29-35. In the calendar, roundels usually of the zodiac symbols with faintly visible preparatory sketches in the margins.
binding
Bound, ca. 1840, in dark green morocco, blind tooled, with the Bridgewater crest stamped in gold on both covers; gilt edges.
provenance
The woman in the historiated initial on f. 175v may be intended to represent the first owner of the book. Of the 15 coats of arms in the borders, 2 may be associated with a Vernon family of Harlaston, Staffordshire and Haddon, Derbyshire; on f. 61, argent, a fret sable, a quarter gules; and, also on f. 61, the same but on the quarter a martlet argent. For a description of all the coats of arms, see The New Palaeographical Society ser. 2 pt. 3 (1915) text and plate 69, with reproductions of ff. 15 and 61. On f. 36, the first leaf of the calendar, s. XIVmed: "Domina Issabella de vernun dedit istud psalterium conventui de hanpul qui alienaverit excomunicatus est" referring to the Priory of the Virgin Mary of Cistercian nuns in Hampole, Yorkshire; see Ker, MLGB, 95 . On f. 1, "N:1" in the hand of John Egerton (1579-1649), 1st Earl of Bridgewater, corrected to "N:1./6" by the second Earl (1622-86). The current Bridgewater pressmark and ex libris on the front pastedown.
bibl
Millar 1928{2}, n° 251, p. 85De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, I, p. 130Schulz et al. 1962, pl. ISandler 1979, p. 65-80Sandler 1986, I, p. 38, 39 - II, p. 61-62 n° 53, 63, 64, 88, ill. 128-130Dutschke 1989, I, p. 30-33, fig. 69, 701972, San Marino, n° 35De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, 130Millar 1926, II, 85 n. 2511972, San Marino, n. 35Sandler 1979, 72 and n. 32Dutschke 1989Sandler 1986, n. 53
