(Q4711)
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Book of hours : use of Sarum.
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Appleby, Thomas, 16th century
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Newman, Edmund, 17th century
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Maskell, William, 1814?-1890
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Illumination of books and manuscripts
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Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens
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Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Latin
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[1450-1460?]
15. century
1450Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: 122 leaves : parchment ; 124 x 82 (95 x 60) mm bound to 132 x 100 mm
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Origin: Written in England, probably London, between about 1450 and 1460.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + ii (parchment) + 118 + i (parchment) + i (modern paper); 1⁶ 2-11⁸ 12³ (of 4, iv cancelled blank) 13⁸ 14⁵ (of 6?) 15-16⁸; horizontal catchwords in ink frames on last versos; older pagination (1-47 only) and collation notes in pencil, lower gutters; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Binding: 19th-century panelled brown morocco; lower board nearly detached; all borders cropped for binding.
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Decoration: Major text divisions open with illuminated foliate borders and 2- to 5-line initials (f. 7r, 13v, 23v, 26v, 28v, 30r, 32r, 33v, 38r, 52v), rubrics in red, 1- and 2-line initials alternately of burnished gold flourished blue and blue flourished red, line-fillers in the Litany of blue and gold.
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Script: Written in Gothic textualis semi-quadrata script by multiple hands.
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Layout: Written in 19 long lines; frame-ruled, in red ink to f. 63v and in black ink after; musical notation in the Office of the Dead in square neumes on a red four-line stave.
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Ms. codex.
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Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), 2007.
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Formerly owned by Thomas Appleby, elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1520, whose name also appears in Balliol MS 291; 16th-century inscription recording his gift of this manuscript, Ex dono gratissimi viri M[agist]ri Thome Appulby socii contubernii Whytynton London (f. 117v).
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Formerly owned by Father Edmund Newman, Cistercian monk from Larha, also known as Lehra, Larah or Abbeylara; the Cistercian abbey of Lehra in Ireland was founded in 1211 but dissolved in 1539, so the designation here may be to a parish or village; 17th-century note, in the same hand as additions to the calendar, recording his gift of the manuscript: Hic liber est ex dono p[at]ris Edm[und...
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Fomerly owned by William Maskell, an Anglican clergyman, ecclesiastical antiquarian, and author of Ancient liturgy of the Church of England according to the Uses of Sarum, Bangor, York, and Hereford, and the modern Roman liturgy, arranged in parallel columns (signature and note, f. i verso).
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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