Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Sarum [manuscript], ca. 1500.

Book of hours

[2], 116 leaves : illuminations ; 199 x 143 mm

Manuscript on vellum.

Includes: a calendar of saints (leaves 1r-6v); Quindecim orationes (7r-20r); Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Sarum (21r-74v); Vigilie mortuorum, or, Office of the Dead (leaves 75r-91r); Commendaciones animarum (leaves 93r-102v); Psalterium de passione domini (leaves 103r-107v); Psalterium beati Iheronimi (108r-116v). Also, genealogical notes about Thomas Wakefeld, 1st Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge on first two unnumbered leaves, and Wakefeld's genealogical additions to the calendar.

In Latin.

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger based on leaf 21r.
Collation: Leaves ii + 118 + ii; no catchwords. Leaves 20v and 91v-92v are blank.
Layout: Written in 23 long lines (dimensions of written space: 116 x 76 mm); frame ruled in ink.
Script: Written in high grade Gothic Book-hand.
Decoration: Historiated initials on leaves 12r, 13r, 14r, 14v, 15v, 16r, 16v, 17v, 18r, 19r, 19v, 26r, 31r, 31v, 32r, 32v, 33r (2 initials), 33v, 34r, 35v (2 initials), 36v, 39r, 41r, 42v, 44r, 47r, 50v, 51r, 52r, 55v, 58v, 60v, and 62v.
Decoration: Ornamental initial letters on leaves 17r, 21r, 75r, 93r, 103r, 108r and 56v.
Decoration: Blue, red and gold initials throughout.
Decoration: Decorative borders on pages with historiated and ornamental initials in red, blue, yellow/gold, purple and green.
Decoration: Blue and gold line fillers in list of saints on leaves 69v-72r.
Origin: Northern Europe (Ghent, Flanders according to de Ricci; France, possibly Rouen according to Pen's excellencie; N. German or Netherlands provenance according to Hecksher on catalog card).
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.228.

For a transcription of Thomas Wakefeld's notes, see Notes and Queries, 12.5, April 1919, p. 9.

Bound in modern pigskin (de Ricci); spine title: Horae B.V.M. Sarum; red and blue marbled edges.

Formerly owned by Thomas Wakefeld (see leaves [2v-3r]); Scott of Harden (bookplate); Boies Penrose II (bookplate); A.J.V. Radford; and Sir Leicester Harmsworth.

Purchased as part of the Harmsworth Collection in 1938.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1981-1982. Martin Luther (1483-1546): A Jubilee Exhibition.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2002. The Pen's Excellencie (catalog p. 27-29)

Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada (suppl.), 380919

V.a.228

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