[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Description
Decoration: 5 (2 to 6-line) initials in blue or pink patterned in white, infilled with flowers, and on gold grounds, within full framed floral borders including designs of hens, berries, a bird and a hunter on three of the pages. In addition, there are 9 large initials and decorative designs in colours and gold, infilled with curling branches, leaves and small heads of beasts, pasted in from other sources. 3-, 2- and 1-line initials in red and blue throughout. Written in textualis rotunda. Principal contents: ff. 1r-4r Calendar; ff. 5r-8r Hours of the Holy Cross; ff. 9r-55v Hours of the Virgin; ff. 56r-69v Penitential psalms and litany (ends imperfectly); ff. 70r-74v Office of the Five Joys of the Virgin; ff. 102r-111v Psalms of the Passion; ff. 112r-116v Suffrages; ff. 118r-130r Hours of St Katherine; ff. 131r-133r Hours of St Agnes (ends imperfectly). From the library of Lord Brotherton. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 50-52.
Metadata
| Identifier | q3s8hl6x |
| IRN | 372696 |
| Class Mark | BC MS 14 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/q3s8hl6x |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection) |
| Date | [ca. 1450-1500] |
| Size and Medium | 1 v. (iii, 133, ii leaves) (1 column, 17 lines) |