[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Description
Decoration: 4 full-page arched miniatures within borders decorated with flowers, curled leaves, berries and putti. There are fine 3 to 4-line illuminated initials, on gold grounds and infilled with flowers, for all offices throughout the manuscript. Written in littera gothica textualis rotunda italiana. Principal contents: ff. 1r-12v Calendar; ff. 13r-101v Hours of the Virgin; ff. 103r-109v Hours of the Cross; ff. 111r-139v Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 141r-192v Office of the dead; ff. 193r-206r Prayers. From the library of Lord Brotherton. He had purchased the manuscript from the London book seller Chas. J. Sawyer in the 1920s. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 43-44. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), p. 26.
Metadata
| Identifier | hj2kqn9k |
| IRN | 372692 |
| Class Mark | BC MS 10 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hj2kqn9k |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection) |
| Date | [ca. 1480-1500] |
| Size and Medium | 1 v. (v, 206, v leaves) (1 column, 12 lines) |