[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 10)
Classmark: BC MS 10
Publication city: [Italy]
Date(s): [ca. 1480-1500]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (v, 206, v leaves) (1 column, 12 lines)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372692
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
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.
Features
Bindings
19th-century binding of blue velvet with silver clasps and cornerpieces.
Provenance
One of the prayers (f. 203v) suggests the manuscript was written for a person named Nicholas. Ker locates the manuscript to northern Italy. A coat of arms in the border of f. 13: gules on a chevron azure between three mullets argent three bezants: in chief or a demi-eagle displayed sable. 19th-century ownership inscription on the first flyleaf reads: 'Henricus Joannes Milbank Trin. Coll. Cambridge Anno 1845.'
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