[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

• Original object type: Artefact

Description

Decoration: 4 full-page arched miniatures within borders decorated with flowers, curled leaves, berries and putti. There are fine 3 to 4-line illuminated initials, on gold grounds and infilled with flowers, for all offices throughout the manuscript.

Written in littera gothica textualis rotunda italiana.

Principal contents: ff. 1r-12v Calendar; ff. 13r-101v Hours of the Virgin; ff. 103r-109v Hours of the Cross; ff. 111r-139v Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 141r-192v Office of the dead; ff. 193r-206r Prayers.

From the library of Lord Brotherton. He had purchased the manuscript from the London book seller Chas. J. Sawyer in the 1920s.

See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 43-44. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), p. 26.

• Date range: [ca. 1480-1500]
• Date: 1490
• Collection: Medieval Manuscripts
• Physical Identifier: BC MS 10