Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Psalms, with Litany, f. 113;—(10) “ Vigilie mortuorum.” f. 134 ; —(11) “ Oracio heate Marie virginis.” f. 174 b. Vellum; ff. 181. Late xvth cent. With three full-page miniatures* and many smaller miniatures and illuminated borders and initials in Flemish style; the calendar ornamented with minute figures of animals, flowers, insects, etc. At the end (f. 181) is the name of Carolus de Vos, in a 16th-century hand, with the inscription, “ Nomen meum hie pono quod librum perdere nolo; si perdere voluissem, nomen meum hie non posuissem.” The MS. was apparently bought by Tho. Astle from a Tournay bookseller in 1784. Duodecimo. 20. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are:—(1) Office of the Virgin. Imperf. at the beginning, f. 3 ;—(2) “ In adventu Domini tantum, Missa de beata Maria.” f. 50;—(3) Office of the Dead. Imperf. at the beginning, f. 98 ;—(4) The Penitential Psalms, with Litany, f. 147. Vellum; ff. 170. Late xvth cent. Some additional prayers are inserted on the fly-leaves. With coarsely executed initials and borders, of Flemish style. On the inside of the cover at each end is a coloured woodcut, the first representing the Visitation, and the second St. Bruno (whose name, together with that of St. Anthelm, another Carthusian, has also been inserted in the Litany, f. 162 b). Both appear to have been executed in the Netherlands, the first near the end of the 15th cent., the other in the first half of the 16th cent. 18mo. 21. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are:— (1) Calendar. f. 5;—(2) “ Hore de sancta cruce.” f. 17;— (3) “ Hore sancti spiritus.” f. 20;—(4) “ Officium misse beate marie v.” f. 23 ;—(5) “ Hore beate marie virginis.” f. 39;— (6) “ Septem psalmi penitenciales,” with Litany, f. 76;—(7) “Vi- gilie mortuorum.” f. 92. At the beginning (ff. 3, 4) are some instructions in Dutch, and at the end (ff. 104-117) Dutch hymns to Our Lord, the Virgin, and SS. Michael, Joris[= George], Kerstoffel [ = Christopher], Anthony, Mary Magdalene, Barbele ’ [ = Barbara], Margaret; with a Latin prayer for the protection of St. Macharius against the plague (f. 110), and a Latin prayer to the Virgin (f. 117). Vellum; ff. 118. xvth cent. With miniatures and illuminated borders, in the French style, at the beginning of each office, small illuminated initials elsewhere. Belonged in 16th cent, to Peter Penneman, and in 1760 to J. L. Van de Walle, whose book-plate of arms is inside the cover. Small Octavo.