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summary
Book of Hours, Sarum use
note (text)
F. 7-84v°= Off. B. M. V.; F. 119-184v°= Off. Defunct.; (CCLL)
extent
II+187+II ff. (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
190
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
115
justification : height (mm)
113
justification : width (mm)
72
note (deco)
Five historiated initials survive (presumably of an original 11), to some extent mutilated by effacing and by slashing with a knife. In the calendar, the monthly occupations and the signs of the zodiac.
binding
Bound in old black leather over bevelled wooden boards.
provenance
Written in England in the first half of the fourteenth century; it has been suggested that the "count de D." on f. 186v is to be identified with Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire (d. 1419). See J. Backhouse, The Madresfield Hours (The Roxburghe Club, 1975), especially Appendix, pp. 30-33, for a list of 24 other books of hours made for English owners between about 1240 and the middle of the fourteenth century (this manuscript not listed). On the front pastedown, a square label bearing, within a blue circle, the pressmark "A. III. 72." Quaritch Gen. Cat. (1880) n. 8557; Howell Wills sale, London, 1894, n. 375 to Quaritch. Quaritch catalogues, 144 (1894) n. 33; 149 (1895) n. 11; 154 (1895) n. 167; 193 (1899) n. 173; 211 (1902) n. 62. Belonged to George Clifford Thomas (1839-1909); his Catalogue (Philadelphia 1907) p. 33. Obtained by Henry E. Huntington from A. S. W. Rosenbach in February 1926.
