Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Sarum) : manuscript, [ca. 1400]

Title: Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Sarum) : manuscript, [ca. 1400]

Alternative Title: Book of hours
Creator / Contributor: Catholic Church
Place of Origin: England
Date: 1400
Language: Latin
Description: Extent: 73 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 19 cm.
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Abstract: Contains a liturgical calendar, hours of the Virgin, litany, Office of the Dead, and various other prayers.
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1350-1400.
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
Books of hours-England.
Illuminations.
Manuscript waste (Binding)-England-16th century.
Vellum bindings (Binding)-16th century.
Rules (layout features)
Notes: Written in a compressed semi-quadrata script in 1 column of 24 lines; liturgical calendar (half full) has 1 month on each page. Two full-page miniatures of a funeral mass (f. 44v) and St. Jerome (f. 66v), 4 foliate borders, numerous decorated initials on burnished gold ground and smaller initials in blue and burnished gold with pen flourishes. Written and illuminated in England.
Bound in a vellum leaf from a 16th-cent. antiphonary.
In a tray case, 21 cm.
MS Richardson 5. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard University

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