(Q43191)
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Book of hours (Diocese of Salisbury, England)
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Grotesques--England--14th century
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Books of hours--England--14th century
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Coats of arms--England--14th century
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Historiated initials--England--14th century
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between 1300 and 1350
14. century
1300Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Extent: ff. ii + 187 + ii : parchment ; 115 x 190 mm
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Book of Hours, Sarum use, written in England in the first half of the fourteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-187v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 212(-1) 312(-5) 410 58 612(-9, before f. 55) 712(-8, before f. 65) 812(-1, before f. 69 and -10, before f. 77) 96(through f. 84) 10-1112 1210(through f. 118) 1312 1412(-1, before f. 131) 15-1712 188(through f. 185; ff. 186-187, contemporary flyleaves). Catchwords in the script of the text (ff. 38v, 165v) or in a small noting hand (17v...
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Decoration: Five historiated initials survive (presumably of an original 11), to some extent mutilated by effacing and by slashing with a knife. In the calendar, the monthly occupations and the signs of the zodiac. 2-line initials in white-decorated blue or pink on grounds of the other color, filled with colored trilobe leaves on a gold ground. 1-line initials in gold against blue or pink...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
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It has been suggested that the "count de D." on f. 186v is to be identified with Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire (d. 1419) (See J. Backhouse, The Madresfield Hours (The Roxburghe Club, 1975), especially Appendix, pp. 30-33). On the front pastedown, a square label bearing, within a blue circle, the pressmark "A. III. 72." Quaritch Gen. Cat. (1880) n. 8557; Howell Wills sale, London, 1894...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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