summary
On ff. 137-146v, Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use; ff. 147v-152v, prayers mainly to the Virgin and using masculine forms; f. 159r-v, meditation on Ps. 115:16-17; ff. 160-163v, prayers and devotions mainly regarding the Crucifixion; f. 164r-v, prayer to the Body of Christ; ff. 164v-165, an indulgence; ff. 165-167v, prayers; ff. 168-192v, Hours of the Passion and related prayers; ff. 193-202v, Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin; ff. 203-209v, Long Hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 210-214v, Penitential psalms; f. 214v, Gradual psalms by cue only; ff. 214v-218v, Litany; f. 219, Office of the Dead (defective); f. 219r-v, Commendations of Souls.
note (text)
Most of the litany in two columns.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
155
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
220
condition
Originally in gatherings of 8 leaves (except for quires 1 and 14) but 17 leaves have been removed.
note (deco)
Some 4-line gold initials remain.
binding
Bound, s. XV, in oak boards with recesses at the fore-edge of the front board for two clasp fittings; covered in brown suede from the spine to about the middle of the boards, which in turn is covered with later alum-tawed(?) pale leather, stained pink, to judge by the turn-ins; the outer cover worn away at the five raised bands on the spine; the second compartment with a paper label inscribed "M. S." (s. XVIII?); the edges of the leaves gilt over a red ground.
origPlace : proposed origin
Netherlands
provenance
Written in the southern Netherlands for a English patron, perhaps living in the east midlands or East Anglia and perhaps with a connection to the Dominican house at Dunstable, to judge by the calendar. Inscribed, s. XV, "Hugo" (f. i); s. XVI, "Thomas Amerton[?]" (f. i, surname smudged); s. XVI or XVII, "and Jesus / blesse mee / my granfathers [sic] / booke / Pe [or De?]" (f. i); apparently in recusant ownership in s. XVImed, as references to Thomas Becket, popes, and indulgences have not been erased. Francis Fortescue Turvile (d. 1839), of Bosworth Hall, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, with his armorial bookplate (covering and obscuring another torn bookplate); two other manuscripts from his collection, including the Anglo-Saxon "Bosworth Psalter", passed down through the family to O. Turvile-Petre and are now London, British Library, Additional MSS 37517 and 37518. A brief description of the MS is written on speckled pale blue paper is stuck to f. i verso. Acquired from descendants of the Fortescue family by Sam Fogg, and acquired by the Huntington in 1997 from Sam Fogg Rare Books Ltd, London.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/HM56911_43
