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Book of hours : use of Sarum : in Latin].
 
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Catholic Church
 
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Frost, H. Harvey
 
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Laing, Guilelmus
 
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Chesterfield, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of, 1854-1933
 
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Maggs Bros
 
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Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
 
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Autographs
 
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Gothic scripts
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--England
 
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Illuminations
 
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Devotional calendars
 
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Books of hours
 
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
 
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Gothic scripts
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
 
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lat
 
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ca. 1450
 
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London?]
 
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Extent: 115 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 233 x 162 (154 x 97) mm bound to 25 cm, in box 18 cm
 
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parchment, ill.
 
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Ms. codex.
 
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In Latin.
 
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
 
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Secundo folio: Martius/ Sancti David...
 
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 115 + iii ; 16 2-148 154−1 (final leaf cancelled). The text block of folio 74 has been cut out and restored, pasted into a replacement, blank, border, presumably at a relatively late date, since the worm holes on fol. 73 and 75 do not appear in folio 74. In addition, a seventeenth-century hand has written signes-de-renvoi on fol. 73v ("A") and 75 ("B...
 
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 115 + iii ; 16 2-148 154−1 (final leaf cancelled). The text block of folio 74 has been cut out and restored, pasted into a replacement, blank, border, presumably at a relatively late date, since the worm holes on fol. 73 and 75 do not appear in folio 74. In addition, a seventeenth-century hand has written signes-de-renvoi on fol. 73v ("A") and 75 ("B... / rank
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Layout: 1 column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, top and bottom writing lines extend across the width of the page.
 
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
 
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Decoration: One-line versal initials throughout alternating blue with red filigree or gold with blue; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon with white filigree highlights and thin, spindly sprays into margin; 3-line initial in colors on gold with 1/4 floriate border in typical English style and color scheme on fol. 45v; 8-line initials with 3/4 border in similar scheme at...
 
Property / note: Decoration: One-line versal initials throughout alternating blue with red filigree or gold with blue; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon with white filigree highlights and thin, spindly sprays into margin; 3-line initial in colors on gold with 1/4 floriate border in typical English style and color scheme on fol. 45v; 8-line initials with 3/4 border in similar scheme at... / rank
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Property / note
Binding: 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over heavily bevelled boards, resulting in raised squared corners, elaborately tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, heavy green paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, other flyleaves early paper, spine gilt-stamped "Horae/ Ad usum/ sarum". Housed in brown cloth clamshell box "Horae/ Sarum use" and "MS q. Med. 139" gilt...
 
Property / note: Binding: 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over heavily bevelled boards, resulting in raised squared corners, elaborately tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, heavy green paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, other flyleaves early paper, spine gilt-stamped "Horae/ Ad usum/ sarum". Housed in brown cloth clamshell box "Horae/ Sarum use" and "MS q. Med. 139" gilt... / rank
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Origin: Written in England, possibly London, in the mid-fifteenth century; calendar is Sarum use, Thomas of Canterbury has not been expunged.
 
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Property / note
Provenance: Late fifteenth-century signature of Guilelmus Laing on fol. 6v (Guilielmus Layng) and 55 (Guilielm[us] Layng e[est] possessor huius libri); later owned by Edwin Francis, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, his sale Sotheby's London 8 April 1919, lot 578 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 23952); offered by Quaritch in 1931 (1931 catalogue, no. 58) (SDBM 23305) and again in 1945...
 
Property / note: Provenance: Late fifteenth-century signature of Guilelmus Laing on fol. 6v (Guilielmus Layng) and 55 (Guilielm[us] Layng e[est] possessor huius libri); later owned by Edwin Francis, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, his sale Sotheby's London 8 April 1919, lot 578 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 23952); offered by Quaritch in 1931 (1931 catalogue, no. 58) (SDBM 23305) and again in 1945... / rank
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Property / note
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold by Maggs to the BPL in 1956 (1956 catalogue, number 139) (SDBM 57067).
 
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Call number: MS q Med.139.
 
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Former call number: MS 1563.
 
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Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 61.
 
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28 November 2023
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Book of hours : use of Sarum : in Latin].
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Catholic Church
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Property / associated name as recorded: Catholic Church / qualifier
 
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Frost, H. Harvey
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Property / associated name as recorded: Frost, H. Harvey / qualifier
 
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Laing, Guilelmus
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Property / associated name as recorded: Laing, Guilelmus / qualifier
 
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Chesterfield, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of, 1854-1933
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Property / associated name as recorded: Chesterfield, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of, 1854-1933 / qualifier
 
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Maggs Bros
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Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Property / associated name as recorded: Bernard Quaritch (Firm) / qualifier
 
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England
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Illuminations
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Manuscripts, Medieval--England
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Autographs
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Gothic scripts
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
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lat
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ca. 1450
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London?]
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Extent: 115 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 233 x 162 (154 x 97) mm bound to 25 cm, in box 18 cm
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parchment, ill.
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: Martius/ Sancti David...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 115 + iii ; 16 2-148 154−1 (final leaf cancelled). The text block of folio 74 has been cut out and restored, pasted into a replacement, blank, border, presumably at a relatively late date, since the worm holes on fol. 73 and 75 do not appear in folio 74. In addition, a seventeenth-century hand has written signes-de-renvoi on fol. 73v ("A") and 75 ("B...
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 115 + iii ; 16 2-148 154−1 (final leaf cancelled). The text block of folio 74 has been cut out and restored, pasted into a replacement, blank, border, presumably at a relatively late date, since the worm holes on fol. 73 and 75 do not appear in folio 74. In addition, a seventeenth-century hand has written signes-de-renvoi on fol. 73v ("A") and 75 ("B... / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Layout: 1 column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, top and bottom writing lines extend across the width of the page.
Property / note: Layout: 1 column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, top and bottom writing lines extend across the width of the page. / rank
 
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Property / note: Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. / rank
 
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Decoration: One-line versal initials throughout alternating blue with red filigree or gold with blue; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon with white filigree highlights and thin, spindly sprays into margin; 3-line initial in colors on gold with 1/4 floriate border in typical English style and color scheme on fol. 45v; 8-line initials with 3/4 border in similar scheme at...
Property / note: Decoration: One-line versal initials throughout alternating blue with red filigree or gold with blue; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon with white filigree highlights and thin, spindly sprays into margin; 3-line initial in colors on gold with 1/4 floriate border in typical English style and color scheme on fol. 45v; 8-line initials with 3/4 border in similar scheme at... / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Binding: 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over heavily bevelled boards, resulting in raised squared corners, elaborately tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, heavy green paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, other flyleaves early paper, spine gilt-stamped "Horae/ Ad usum/ sarum". Housed in brown cloth clamshell box "Horae/ Sarum use" and "MS q. Med. 139" gilt...
Property / note: Binding: 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over heavily bevelled boards, resulting in raised squared corners, elaborately tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, heavy green paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, other flyleaves early paper, spine gilt-stamped "Horae/ Ad usum/ sarum". Housed in brown cloth clamshell box "Horae/ Sarum use" and "MS q. Med. 139" gilt... / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Origin: Written in England, possibly London, in the mid-fifteenth century; calendar is Sarum use, Thomas of Canterbury has not been expunged.
Property / note: Origin: Written in England, possibly London, in the mid-fifteenth century; calendar is Sarum use, Thomas of Canterbury has not been expunged. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Provenance: Late fifteenth-century signature of Guilelmus Laing on fol. 6v (Guilielmus Layng) and 55 (Guilielm[us] Layng e[est] possessor huius libri); later owned by Edwin Francis, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, his sale Sotheby's London 8 April 1919, lot 578 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 23952); offered by Quaritch in 1931 (1931 catalogue, no. 58) (SDBM 23305) and again in 1945...
Property / note: Provenance: Late fifteenth-century signature of Guilelmus Laing on fol. 6v (Guilielmus Layng) and 55 (Guilielm[us] Layng e[est] possessor huius libri); later owned by Edwin Francis, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, his sale Sotheby's London 8 April 1919, lot 578 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 23952); offered by Quaritch in 1931 (1931 catalogue, no. 58) (SDBM 23305) and again in 1945... / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold by Maggs to the BPL in 1956 (1956 catalogue, number 139) (SDBM 57067).
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Sold by Maggs to the BPL in 1956 (1956 catalogue, number 139) (SDBM 57067). / rank
 
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Call number: MS q Med.139.
Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.139. / rank
 
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Former call number: MS 1563.
Property / note: Former call number: MS 1563. / rank
 
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Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 61.
Property / note: Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 61. / rank
 
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Property / date last updated
 
4 December 2023
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Latest revision as of 20:03, 18 March 2024

Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444810, MS q Med.139)
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Book of hours : use of Sarum : in Latin]. (DS3474)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444810, MS q Med.139)

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    28 November 2023
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    Book of hours : use of Sarum : in Latin].
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--England
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Extent: 115 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 233 x 162 (154 x 97) mm bound to 25 cm, in box 18 cm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In Latin.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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    Secundo folio: Martius/ Sancti David...
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 115 + iii ; 16 2-148 154−1 (final leaf cancelled). The text block of folio 74 has been cut out and restored, pasted into a replacement, blank, border, presumably at a relatively late date, since the worm holes on fol. 73 and 75 do not appear in folio 74. In addition, a seventeenth-century hand has written signes-de-renvoi on fol. 73v ("A") and 75 ("B...
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    Layout: 1 column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, top and bottom writing lines extend across the width of the page.
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    Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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    Decoration: One-line versal initials throughout alternating blue with red filigree or gold with blue; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon with white filigree highlights and thin, spindly sprays into margin; 3-line initial in colors on gold with 1/4 floriate border in typical English style and color scheme on fol. 45v; 8-line initials with 3/4 border in similar scheme at...
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    Binding: 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over heavily bevelled boards, resulting in raised squared corners, elaborately tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, heavy green paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, other flyleaves early paper, spine gilt-stamped "Horae/ Ad usum/ sarum". Housed in brown cloth clamshell box "Horae/ Sarum use" and "MS q. Med. 139" gilt...
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    Origin: Written in England, possibly London, in the mid-fifteenth century; calendar is Sarum use, Thomas of Canterbury has not been expunged.
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    Provenance: Late fifteenth-century signature of Guilelmus Laing on fol. 6v (Guilielmus Layng) and 55 (Guilielm[us] Layng e[est] possessor huius libri); later owned by Edwin Francis, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, his sale Sotheby's London 8 April 1919, lot 578 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 23952); offered by Quaritch in 1931 (1931 catalogue, no. 58) (SDBM 23305) and again in 1945...
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Sold by Maggs to the BPL in 1956 (1956 catalogue, number 139) (SDBM 57067).
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    Call number: MS q Med.139.
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    Former call number: MS 1563.
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    Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 61.
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    4 December 2023
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