Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Richardson 5

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Harvard University Library
Library
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Shelfmark
  • MS Richardson 5
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Date
  • 1400
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Book of hours
  • Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Sarum) : manuscript, [ca. 1400]
Agent
Description
  • Physical Description:
    73 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 19 cm.

    Summary:
    Contains a liturgical calendar, hours of the Virgin, litany, Office of the Dead, and various other prayers.

    Notes:
    Written in a compressed semi-quadrata script in 1 column of 24 lines; liturgical calendar (half full) has 1 month on each page. Two full-page miniatures of a funeral mass (f. 44v) and St. Jerome (f. 66v), 4 foliate borders, numerous decorated initials on burnished gold ground and smaller initials in blue and burnished gold with pen flourishes. Written and illuminated in England.
    Bound in a vellum leaf from a 16th-cent. antiphonary.
    In a tray case, 21 cm.
    MS Richardson 5. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1350-1400.
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
    Books of hours-England.
    Illuminations.
    Manuscript waste (Binding)-England-16th century.
    Vellum bindings (Binding)-16th century.

Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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