(Q43218)
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Martyrology and Customal, the House of Bonshommes, Ashridge Priory
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Ashridge Priory
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between 1350 and 1399
14. century
1350Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: ff. ii + 121 (recte 111) + ii : parchment ; 185 x 270 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Gothic.
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Layout: 1-118 1212 134 142 and 5 leaves of uncertain structure. Catchwords in frames in lower right corner. 32 lines in the calendar, 29 in the martyrology, 29-36 in the customal. Ruled space, 193 x 120 mm, in lead with single bounding lines, pricking visible in upper and lower margins.
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Span folios: ff. 1-121v.
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Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 9, 4-line, parted red and blue with void leaf design formed in red, with careful flourishing in red and purple; 3-line initials, blue with orange-red penwork; the red of the penwork loses its orange cast on ff. 99-110 and 115-116v.
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Assigned Date: s. XIV2.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
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Written during the second half of the fourteenth century with additions through the mid-sixteenth century, in the house of the Boni Homines ("Bonshommes") at Ashridge. See Ker, MLGB, 5, H.C. Schulz, "The Monastic Library and Scriptorium at Ashridge," HLQ 1 (1938) 305-11, and provenance of EL 7 H 8. On f. 3, Bridgewater pressmark "L,CC,R,4/8" in the hand of John Egerton (1622-86), 2nd Earl of...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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