[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Other titles: Book of hours (Leeds University Library. Brotherton Collection MS 14)
Classmark: BC MS 14
Publication city: [Low Countries]
Date(s): [ca. 1450-1500]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (iii, 133, ii leaves) (1 column, 17 lines)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372696
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
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.
Features
Bindings
20th-century binding of brown morocco by Baynton, Bath.
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