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Horae beatae Mariae virginis (Sarum use) : manuscript, [ca. 1450-1475]

Title
Horae beatae Mariae virginis (Sarum use) : manuscript, [ca. 1450-1475]

Alternative Title: Book of hours
Creator / Contributor
Catholic Church
Place of Origin
England
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 150 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 30 cm.
print
Abstract
Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany (with S. Swithin), Office of the Dead, and various prayers, including a prayer to St. Zita (Lucca, Italy).
Genre
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Notes
Written in a compressed textualis semi-quadrata in 1 column of 18 lines; 12 large miniatures, numerous foliate decorated initials and inhabited borders, and secondary initials in burnished gold and blue with pen flourishes.
The calendar is for an English church (Wulstan of Sherborne, Richard of Chichester, Dunstan of Canterbury, Swithin of Winchester, Winefride of Anglia, feast and translation of Erkenwald (bishop of London and patron saint of Southend-on-Sea, among other places), and feast of Erasmus.
Bound in 19th-cent. red velvet with two silver clasps.
In a tray case, 33 cm.
MS Richardson 34. 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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