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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    22. Hocrs of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are:— (1) Calendar. f. 1 ;—(2) “ Quindecim orationes ad Christum.” f. 13;—(3) “ Commemoratio de sancta trinitate.” f. 19; — (4) Commemorations of the following saints:—John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Christopher, George, Thomas of Canterbury, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Margaret, Barbara, f. 20;— (5) “ Here beate Marie Virginis secundum usum Sarum.” f. 35;— (6) Hymns and prayers to the Virgin, f. 69 b ;—(7) Miscellaneous prayers, including one (f. 82 b) entitled “ oratio venerabilis Bede presbyteri.” f. 80; — (8) “ Septem psalmi penitenciales,” with Litany, f, 89 ;—(9) “ Vigilie defunctorum.” f. 105;—(10) “ Com- mendationes animarum.” f. 126;—(11) “Psalmi de passione Domini,” f. 137;—(12) “ Psalterium sancti Iheronimi.” f. 143. Vellum; ff. 154. xvth cent. Executed apparently in Prance, but for English use, the saints especially commemorated in the Calendar being largely English. Full-page miniatures, coarsely executed, with illuminated borders at the beginning of each office, but in many cases the miniatures have been cut out. The name of St. Thomas of Canterbury has been erased throughout, and rubrics referring to promises of indulgences have been obliterated with ink (ffi 77, 86 b). A table of contents has been added at the end in a late hand. With book-plate of arms of A. C. Ducarel, LL.D. [1713-1785, Librarian at Lambeth Palace]. Octavo. 23, Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin, with French rubrics. There is no calendar, and the following are the contents:—(1) “Heures de le doleur et compassion de le glorieuse viergene Marie pour Ihesu Crist.” f. 3;—(2) Prayers to the Virgin, with (f. 38 b) the hymn “ Gaude flore virginali.” f. 32 ;—(3) Prayer to Christ, with the rubric, “ quiconques dira ceste orison qui sensieult entre le eleuation du corps nostre seigneur et le tiers Agnus dei, Le pape Boniface [VIII., 1294—1303] a donne et ottrie deux mille ans de pardons, A le requeste de Phelippe [IV., 1285-1314] roy de France.” f. 41;—(4) “ Les viii vers Saint Bernard.” f. 42 ;— (5) “ Passio domini nostri Ihesu Christi secundum Johannem,” with prayers, f. 43;—(6) Commemorauons of the following saints:— Michael the archangel, John the Baptist, Peter, John the Evangelist, James the greater, Nicholas, Anthony, Sebastian, Francis, Christopher, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Katherine, Barbara, Agnes, Agatha, Apollonia, Quintin, Clare. f, 46;—■ (7) “Orison des iiii euangelistes.” f. 61b;—(8) “Orison des vii paroles que nostro seigneur Ihesu Crist dist estant en labre de la croix,” f. 63 b;—(9) “ Du sacrement de I’autel.” f. 66 b;— (10) “Do saint Bethremieu” [Bartholomew], f. 67;—(11) “De