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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 21

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
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  • Latin MS 21
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Language
  • Latin
  • French
Title
    • Kalendar in red and black, incomplete.
    • Oratio ad sanctam Veronicam
    • Hours of the Cross
    • Hours of the Cross
    • Missa beata Marie
    • Sequences of the Gospels
    • Hours of the Virgin
    • Office of the Virgin in Advent
    • Seven Psalms and Litany
    • Seven Psalms and Litany
    • Office of the Dead
    • O intemerata
    • Quicunque uult
    • Psalter of St Jerome
    • Memoriae
    • Morning prayers, prayers at Communion
    • Les sept oraisons Saint Gregoire
    • Private prayers, rubrics in French
    • Or. de nostre seigneur
    • Or. deuotissima dicenda die Sabbati
    • De S. Christoforo
    • see more
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Description
  • Extent:
    ff. 253 Leaf height: 68 mm, width: 46 mm.
    Binding:

    Bound by James Hayday (b. 1796, d. 1872), bookbinder; green velvet binding and case.


    Decoration:

    The principal part of this consists of pictures, and borders of fluid gold, with birds (peacocks notably), natural flowers and fruit. These borders (e.g. the first) are divided into panels by gold frames, and these panels have grounds of blue or purple-red. Flemish style. The pictures are full-page, save where otherwise described.

    Folio 13v Salue sanctafacies. Blue ground. Bust of Christ in purple robe holding a crystal orb with gold cross, and fleury. His head is rayed with flourished gold rays. The opposite page has full border, as in nearly all cases.

    Folio 16v Hours of the Cross. The Crucifixion. The Virgin, John, and woman on left: two Jews on right. Peacocks in the border.

    Folio 23v Hours of the Holy Ghost. Pentecost. The Virgin kneels at a desk in centre facing right. Apostles kneel on either side looking up at the dove.

    Folio 30v Mass of the Virgin. Ground mainly pink. The Virgin and Child, rayed, rather more than halflength, surrounded by clouds.

    Folio 43v Matins of the Virgin. Annunciation. The Virgin kneels inside a building. Gabriel (outside) enters on left. The Dove on a ray.

    Folio 63v Lauds. The Visitation, on a grass plot in front of a brick house with stone dressings.

    Folio 77v Prime. The Virgin (left) and Joseph adore the Child. Ox and ass behind. Rays descend vertically.

    Folio 83v Tierce. Two shepherds in a field with a gate. Angel in pink, and star, in the sky.

    Folio 88v Sext. The adoration of the Magi in the stable. One king is black.

    Folio 93v None. The Presentation. A circular altar in centre. Symeon on right, in profile. The Virgin and two nimbed attendants.

    Folio 98v Vespers. In a field-road (a house on left) a soldier is about to take a swaddled child out of its mother's arms.

    Folio 107v Compline. The Flight. Joseph leads the ass to left.

    Folio 115v Advent Office, etc. The Father in tiara and pink robe throned in centre, full-face, rayed, with orb, fleury. The Virgin, crowned, kneels to him on left. The ground where not gold is pale blue.

    Folio 126v Seven Psalms. David in prayer in rohe of ermine and red-purple, his harp by him. A large yellow rock behind.

    Folio 149v Office of the dead. A nude corpse lies (head to left) on a red hed. The soul, a nude figure drawn in gold, issues from the mouth. Just above in air an angel with raised sword and shield: a demon at the foot of the bed stretches his arms towards the soul. At the top, in a glory, the head of God in dark blue hood and robe. In front, back to the bed and almost facing the spectator, a monk in black sits reading.

    Folio 185r Obsecro te. Partial harder. Initial. Half-length figures done in pale purple. Peter, the Virgin, Christ's body, St. John.

    Folio 196v Psalter of St. Jerome. Jerome in purple habit kneels, baring his breast before a crucifix against a tree on left. A chapel or cell on right.

    Folio 207v Memoriae. The Trinity. The Father, in tiara and red robe, supports the body of the Son, whose knees rest on a blue and gold globe. The Dove is near the head of the Son. Gold and blue ground. A series of small pictures in the text, with partial borders, follow: the figures usually half-length.

    Folio 208v The Father, with orb, blessing, in very light purple robe. Gold ground and blue clouds.

    Folio 209v The Son, nude save for loin-cloth, blessing. Similar ground.

    Folio 210r The Dove. Similar ground.

    Folio 211r Stabat Mater. The Crucifixion, with Mary and John. Blue ground.

    Folio 213r Michael, in armour and mantle with long iron spear. Blue ground.

    Folio 214r John Baptist, with book: lamb's head on right. Red ground.

    Folio 214v John Evangelist, with cup.

    Folio 215r Peter and Paul.

    Folio 216r James the Great seated on the ground: staff, book, hat on back.

    Folio 217v. Stephen, in gold dalmatic, holding stones.

    Folio 218r Laurence, in white, with book and gridiron. Red and gold curtains: blue ground.

    Folio 219v Full-page. Christopher, with flying red mantle, wades across the stream to left bearing the Child. The hermit, very small, on the cliff on left.

    Folio 221v In text. Sebastian, in white armour, holds a bunch of arrows.

    Folio 223v Nicholas, as bishop, seated. The heads of three figures seen on right.

    Folio 224v Claudius, in black and gold mitre and vestments, with red book and double-cross staff. Blue ground with gold pattern.

    Folio 226r Anthony: red cap, hooded habit: book, and head of a pig by him.

    Folio 227r Three people in a boat, viz. a boatman, Julian the Hospitaller standing in centre in black, with broad hat, and a nimbed woman on right.

    Folio 228r Magdalene in prayer in a cave: her casket in front: clad only in her hair.

    Folio 228v Katherine, crowned, with sword, wheel, and book: red ground.

    Folio 229v Margaret, rising from the back of a monster: blue starred ground.

    Folio 230v Barbara, with palm: tower on left: blue ground.

    Folio 231v Apollonia, with tooth in forceps: blue ground.

    Folio 237v Prayers of St Gregory. Full-page. He is at the altar holding the Host, facing right. Above, a small figure of Christ with the cross, in a glory. Two servers vested in red and a woman occupy the left half of the picture.

    Folio 243r Mon benoit dieu. In text. Christ, half-length, in purple robe, with open book, blessing: red ground.

    Folio 245r Missus est. In text. Left, against a pink ground, the Virgin and Child. Right, against a blue ground, with gold leaves, a beardless man in dark habit, in prayer.


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.


    Layout:

    16 long lines.


    Collation:

    Collation is not possible to due the tightness of the binding.


    Script:

    Written in Italian gothic by a single Flemish scribe


    Data Source(s):
    Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
    Subject(s):
    Books of hours; Prayers
    Abstract:

    Miniature Book of Hours, which once belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots. Produced in the late 15th century by a Flemish scribe.


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment.
    Provenance:

    Owned by Mary Stuart (b. 1542, d. 1587), Queen of Scotland On two pages she has written inscriptions: the first is on folio 114r 'Man Dieu confondez mes ennemys'. The other, on folio 125r 'Dieu uiuant mon seul Juge olyez. mes plainctes & mes gemissementz.'

    Bought by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford at the Andre B. Knox Sale (Sotheby's) on 12th August 1872, see N. Barker, Bibliotheca Lindesiana, pp. 247-48, based on CLL, June-Dec. 1872, nos. 356-57, 359-61, 364-65, 370; CLI, 1872-73, no. 365. Lord Crawford paid £33 for it (£36. 6s. incl. Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher commission) and it was sent to him on 17th August 1872.

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