(Q1708)
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Book of Hours, Sarum use
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Written in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century for use in England. Early ownership by the family whose coat of arms appears on f. 23v, possibly the Barons Lovell as reported by the HMC and De Ricci; owned later by the Bowntyene family, possibly specifically Johane Bowntyene in the early sixteenth century, as reported by De Ricci.
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owned later (at least 1540-1568) by Anthony Bustard of Adderbury, near Oxford; the HMC report of 1885 records it among the manuscripts of Captain Josceline F. Bagot of Levens Hall; source and date of acquisition by General Theological Seminary unknown.
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s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in leather by Gerhard Gerlach (stamp on inner back cover); edges of book block dusted with gold.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-213v: Twenty full-page miniatures (not counting the full page coat of arms on f. 23v), on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the rectos (except for f. 178, where the final lines of the text from the preceding inserted bifolium appear). Ten large miniatures. Fourteen historiated initials.
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Other decoration, ff. 1-213v: Major initials, 6-, 7-, or 8-line, in white-patterned blue or red on a gold ground with infilling of blue, green and red flowers on a red or blue vine of opposite color to the initial. 4-line initials of the same style as the larger major initials appear below large miniatures in the Hours of the Virgin. 3-line initials in gold on white-patterned blue and pink...
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Script, ff. 1-213v: Gothic.
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Layout, ff. 1-213v: 1-2#^6#, 3#^8#(through f. 22), 4#^8#(+1,2,3,4, ff. 23-26), 5#^8#(+2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14: ff. 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 47; and -13 between ff. 46 and 47), 6#^8#(+1, 3, 5, 7, 9: ff. 49, 51, 53, 55, 57; through f. 61) 7-11#^8#(through f. 101), 12#^8#(-7), 13#^12#(through f. 120), 14#^8#(+1), 15#^6#(through f. 135), 16#^2#, 17#^8#(+1), 18#^8#(through f. 154), 19#^8#(+1), 20#^8...
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Bibliography: Historical Manuscripts Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV: The manuscripts of the Earl of Westmorland, Captain Stewart, Lord Stafford, Lord Muncaster, and others, (1885), pp. 346-347; De Ricci, p. 1286, number 12 where it is said to be bound in the original wooden boards and stamped calf.
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ff. 1-213v: A supplement (BX 2080 A2 1450b Suppl.) contains a letter from Niels H. Sonne to the Reverend David Green at General Theological Seminary, dated 3 January 1986, including a photocopy of the Historical Manuscripts Commission report. The letter also describes a past query about GTS's acquisition of the manuscript, the reproduction of several of its illuminations for Christmas cards...
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ff. 1-213v: Latin.
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ff. 1-210v; ff. 211-213, added; f. 213v blank: ff. 1-2 are blank flyleaves; ff. 3-14v: Calendar: the qualifier "pape" has been erased throughout, as have the entries for the octave, feast and translation of Thomas of Canterbury (5 January, 7 July, 29 December); ff. 15-22 : Prayers and suffrages; f. 23 blank; f. 23v: Full page coat of arms, possibly of the Barons Lovell; f. 24: Added prayer...
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We thank Gania Barlow for her description of this manuscript.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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