(Q2636)
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Here bigynneth ye vii P
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Here bigynneth ye letanye
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Signature Ann MoneyIon fol. 84r, probably eighteenth-century; George C. Thomas (1839-1909), banker and picture collector; his sale, Philadelphia, 18 November 1924, lot 205; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XV(2/4); 1425-1450
15. century
1425Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Binding: Bound c. 1900 in black morocco by Riviere & Son, parchment endleaves; in a brown cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 1r- 246: 16 illuminated initials (mostly 5- or 6-line) with three-quarter illuminated borders, on fols. 42r (psalm 26), 60v (psalm 38), 77v (psalm 52), 96v (psalm 68), 120r (psalm 80), 140v (psalm 97, initial for psalm 109 lacking but offsets on fol. 162r), 205v (canticles, mostly torn away), 225v (Matins), 229r (Lauds), 233v (Prime), 235r (Terce), 236v (Sext), 237v...
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Other decoration, ff. 1r- 246: headings and Latin key words in red, versal capitals in alternating red and blue; 2-line psalm initials in blue with red penwork.
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Script, ff. 1r- 246: Textura.
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Layout, ff. 1r- 246: Collation: i#^13# [apparently, presumably of 14, i cancelled], ii#^7# [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 14], iii–viii#^8#, ix#^7 of 8#, lacking viii, after fol. 74], x–xix#^8#, xx#^7# [of 8, lacking vii, after fol. 161], xxi–xxx#^8#, xxxi#^4# [perhaps of 8, lacking all after iv], with horizontal catchwords and contemporary leaf signatures; ruled apparently in ink, 18 lines...
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Manuscript note: Contains portions of the Wycliffite Bible, much used and very worn, many edges defective from damp, pages at end almost illegible where the acidic ink has eaten through the parchment (mostly now patched).
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 623.
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ff. 1r- 246: Latin.
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f. 1r-4r: Includes a table of roman and arabic numerals, fol. 2v, tables, recording leap years, Sunday letters and what are primesiand marchesifor all the years 1425-1472; fol 4r, on the phases of the moon.
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Explicit, f. 1r-4r: these blak lynes downward.
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f. 4v-13v: Sarum use.
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f. 14r: The Psalter is taken from the Wycliffite Bible text as revised in the 1380s by or in the circle of Wycliffe’s personal assistant, John Purvey (c. 1353–c. 1428; cf. Hargreaves 1956), corresponding with that in the Wycliffite Bible edited by Forshall and Madden 1881 .Psalms begin on fol. 14v, ending on fol. 205v, followed by the canticles, ending on fol. 225v.
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Incipit, f. 14r: Here endith ye psalmes that stonden aftir ye sauter, whiche ben clepid ye canticlis AMEN.
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Explicit, f. 14r: breke we ye bondis of hem, & caste we awei.
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ff. 225v-243r: The translation of the Hours of the Virgin used here is no. 225 in Raymo 1986, pp. 2569–70, and it corresponds to the edition published by William Maskell 1882.Hours of the Virgin (Maskell 1882, p. 1), Matins, followed by Lauds (fol. 229r), Prime (fol. 233v), Terce (fol. 235r), Sext (fol. 236v), None (fol. 237v), Vespers (fol. 239v) and Compline (fol. 241v).
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Explicit, ff. 225v-243r: Domine labia mea aperies, Lord you schalt opene my lippis.
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ff. 243v-244r: fol. 243v, ( Maskell 1882, p. 81) and the fifteen Gradual Psalms (fol. 244r, Here bigynneth ye xv psalmisiMaskell 1882, p. 95), both comprising little more than the psalms’ Latin headings, since the texts occur in full in Hours of the Virgin above.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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