Book of hours, use of Sarum
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Description
- Title
- Book of hours, use of Sarum
- Published / Created
- approximately 1425-approximately 1450.
- Publication Place
- Southern Netherlands, probably Flanders
- Abstract
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Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, use of Sarum, incomplete. May have been produced for a Scottish patron. Contains 1) Prayers in Latin and Middle Scots, f1r-5v; 2) Hours of the Virgin, use of Sarum, with Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit intermixed, f6r-30r; 3) Prayers, including Seven Joys of the Virgin, O intemerata, and Obsecro te, f30v-42v; 4) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, f43r-55v
- Description
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In Latin; rubrics in Middle Scots.
Script: gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 5 column-width miniatures, some illuminated; 4-6 line initials with illuminated full borders; 2-line blue initials with red penwork; 1-line initials in alternating red and blue. Rubricated.
Layout: single columns of 22 lines.
Secundo folio: tuo.
Binding: modern limp vellum. Spine title: "Horae ad Usum Sarum" and "MS."
Some annotations in Middle Scots in 15th-century hand.
Some full and partial leaves removed throughout.
Bookseller description available. - Provenance
- Ownership inscription?: John Harrison, Esq., of Nottingham. Sotheby's sale 1934 July 9-10, lot 583. Purchased from Maggs Bros. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2019.
- Extent
- 1 volume (ii paper + 55 parchment + ii paper leaves) : 150 mm x 108 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Scots
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Osborn a86
- Container / Volume
- Box
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Prayers and devotions
Early works to 1800
Books of hours
Illuminated manuscripts Netherlands 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Netherlands 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper and parchment ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Geographic)
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Netherlands
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic)
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Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Books of hours > Early works to 1800
Books of hours > Netherlands > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Netherlands > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Book of Hours. Use of Sarum. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15585432
- Object ID (OID)
- 32343806
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