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Title

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

Other related names

• Thomas Wakefeld, former owner., former owner
• Scott of Harden, former owner., former owner
• Boies Penrose II, former owner., former owner
• A.J.V. Radford, former owner., former owner
• Sir Leicester Harmsworth, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.228
(Washington DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=232794

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern Europe

Summary

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.

Notes

• Leaves 20v and 91v-92v are blank.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on leaf 21r.
   
• Uniform title: [Book of hours]
   

Extent

Ii + 118 + ii; 199 x 143 mm

Foliation

Foliated

Support

Parchment

Binding

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

Layout

Written in 23 long lines (dimensions of written space: 116 x 76 mm); frame ruled in ink.

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; Ornamental initial letters on leaves 17r, 21r, 75r, 93r, 103r, 108r and 56v; Blue, red and gold initials throughout; Decorative borders on pages with historiated and ornamental initials in red, blue, yellow/gold, purple and green; Blue and gold line fillers in list of saints on leaves 69v-72r.

Script

Written in high grade Gothic Book-hand.

Provenance

• 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.
   

Related resources

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

Subjects topical

• Wakefield, Thomas, -1575 --Family --Manuscripts
• Books of hours --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --15th century
• Miniatures (Illuminations) --15th century --Manuscripts
• Annotations (Provenance) --16th century

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• 15th century
• Flemish
• Devotion
• Flanders
• Historiated initial
• Illumination

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Unnumbered Flyleaf 1 recto — Ownership notes, Wakefeld family
• fol. 2r — Calendar
• fol. 8r — Fifteen Os of Saint Bridget
• fol. 13r — Commemoration of the Trinity
• fol. 14r — Commemoration of Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 15r — Commemoration of Saint John the Evangelist
• fol. 15v — Commemoration of Saint Thomas Becket
• fol. 16v — Commemoration of Saint George
• fol. 17r — Commemoration of Saint Christopher
• fol. 17v — Commemoration of Saint Anne
• fol. 18v — Commemoration of Saint Anne
• fol. 19r — Commemoration of Saint Catherine
• fol. 20r — Commemoration of Saint Barbara
• fol. 20v — Commemoration of Saint Margaret
• fol. 22r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Sarum (Matins through Lauds)
• fol. 32r — Suffrages
• fol. 37v — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Sarum (Prime through Compline)
• fol. 51r — Five Joys of the Virgin
• fol. 52r — Seven Joys of the Virgin
• fol. 53r — Prayer to the Virgin, Salve Virgo Virginum
• fol. 56v — Prayer to the Virgin, O intemerata
• fol. 57v — Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te
• fol. 59v — Prayer to the Virgin, Ave mundi spes
• fol. 61v — Seven Joys in Honor of the Virgin, Virgo templum trinitatis
• fol. 63v — Prayer to the Crucifix, Omnibus consideratis (end lacking)
• fol. 64r — Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (beginning lacking)
• fol. 76r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 94r — Commendation of the Souls
• fol. 104r — Psalms of the Passion
• fol. 108r — Preface to the Psalter of Saint Jerome
• fol. 109r — Psalter of Saint Jerome

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Scott of Harden
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Boies Penrose II
• fol. 7r — Four-sided foliate border
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 13r — Historiated initial D, Trinity
• fol. 13r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 14r — Historiated initial G, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 14r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 15r — Historiated initial G, Saint John the Evangelist
• fol. 15r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 15v — Historiated initial G, Saint Thomas Becket
• fol. 15v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 16v — Historiated initial G, Saint George
• fol. 16v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 17r — Historiated initial S, Saint Christopher
• fol. 17r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 17v — Historiated initial G, Saint Anne
• fol. 17v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 18v — Historiated initial G, Saint Anne
• fol. 18v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 19r — Historiated initial G, Saint Catherine
• fol. 19r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 20r — Historiated initial G, Saint Barbara
• fol. 20r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 20v — Historiated initial G, Saint Margaret
• fol. 20v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 22r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 22r — Four-sided foliate border
• fol. 27r — Historiated initial D, Visitation
• fol. 27r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 32r — Historiated initial V, Dove of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 32r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 32v — Historiated initial N, True Cross
• fol. 32v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 33r — Historiated initial M, Saint Michael
• fol. 33r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 33v — Historiated initial P, Saints Peter and Paul
• fol. 33v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 34r — Historiated initial A, Saint Andrew
• fol. 34r — Historiated initial S, Saint Stephen
• fol. 34r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 34v — Historiated initial L, Saint Lawrence
• fol. 34v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 35r — Historiated initial B, Saint Nicholas
• fol. 35r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 36v — Historiated initial O, All Saints
• fol. 36v — Historiated initial D, A Pilgrim at an Altar
• fol. 36v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 37v — Historiated initial D, Nativity
• fol. 37v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 40r — Historiated initial D, Shepherds
• fol. 40r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 42r — Historiated initial D, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 42r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 43v — Historiated initial D, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 43v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 45r — Historiated initial D, Massacre of the Innocents
• fol. 45r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 48r — Historiated initial C, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 48r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 51r — Historiated initial G, Virgin and Child
• fol. 51r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 52r — Historiated initial G, Virgin reading
• fol. 52r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 53r — Historiated initial S, Virgin and Child
• fol. 53r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 56v — Historiated initial O, Pietà
• fol. 56v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 59v — Historiated initial A, Virgin and Child
• fol. 59v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 61v — Historiated initial V, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
• fol. 61v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 63v — Historiated initial O, Adam and Eve
• fol. 63v — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 76r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 76r — Four-sided foliate border
• fol. 94r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 94r — Four-sided foliate border
• fol. 104r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 104r — Four-sided foliate border
• fol. 109r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 109r — Four-sided foliate border
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Boies Penrose II