(Q42882)
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Breviaries--England--14th century
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Prayers and devotions
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Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170--Prayers and devotions
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between 1350 and 1399
14. century
1350Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i + 65 + i : parchment ; 85 x 120 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Anglicana.
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Layout: Collation for entire manuscript: 118 214 312(+13, f. 45, which was formerly the first leaf of the missing next quire) 412 512(-3, 7, and 10 through 12); the sequence of leaves in the last quire should be 58, 60, [missing leaf], 59, 61, 62. In Part 1: 16-18 long lines, ruled in plummet, which has usually turned brown. In Part 2: 16-20 long lines.
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Foliated i-ii, 1-62, iii-v.
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Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-45v. Other Decoration: Rubrics, plain 2- and 1-line initials in red.
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Assigned Date: s. XIV2.
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Part 2. Span folios: ff. 46-62v, f. iv verso. The scribe occasionally omits words and leaves spaces, presumably because he could not read his exemplar (e.g. f. 58v "incessanter" and "incursio" omitted; f. 59v "iocunditas" omitted).
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
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Additions made for an owner named William (f. 59); inscribed, s. XV?, "Wyllyam M[...]" (f. ii, smudged). John Peterell(?), s. XV, inscribed: "Iste liber constat domino ihon' payterell [added in paler ink:] alliter(?) hartecu(m)be" (f. i). Inscribed, s. XVII(?) with a note that Thomas Becket succeeded Archbishop Theobald on the latter's death in 1162 (f. iv verso). Francis Powell (d. 1758...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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