(Q961)
Statements
Comte de Rochechouart arms on ff. 1, 84; Castel-Lodève arms on f. 2. Frederick Perkins of Chipstead, Kent to Bennett; Simon J. Schwartz of New Orleans to G. D. Smith; Smith sale to G. Wells; Waters S. Davis by whose children it was given to the Grolier.
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s. XVI(med); 1540-1560
16. century
1540Gregorian
1560Gregorian
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Binding: Bound, s. XVIII (?), in dark green morocco with gilt tooled floral design on both covers; spine and turn-ins gilt; rose watered silk doublures and endleaves; edges gilt.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-85v: 11 half-page miniatures; some historiated initials; f. 34 (lauds) with Baptism of Christ missing.
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Script, ff. 1-85v: Humanistic.
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Layout, ff. 1-85v: Gatherings mainly of 8 leaves; 20 long lines ruled in red.
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Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1668 (when it was in the collection of Waters S. Davis, 1150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY; d. 12 February 1940, according to an obituary notice in the journal, Speculum).
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ff. 1-85v: Five miniatures excised from the ms sometime after 1937 (description by de Ricci) of which 4 were noticed at Sotheby's, NY in 1996 in the estate of Fr. Redmond Ambrose Burke, C.S.V. (1914-1996) and returned to the Grolier; f. 34 still missing.
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ff. 1-85v: Latin.
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ff. 1-85v: Full calendar; gospel pericopes; passion according to John; Hours of the BVM (lacks f. 34, Lauds); suffrages; Obsecro te (masc. forms); prayers in French; added notes in Latin. MS may be fragment: lacks penitential psalms, litany, office of the dead, etc.
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This description is based on the extensive work of Prof. James Marrow.
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ff. 1-85v: We are grateful to Prof. James Marrow and Paul Needham who recognized the excised leaves from this and other manuscripts and saw to their return.
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9 June 2023
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9 June 2023
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