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Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Edinburgh, Edinburgh UL, MS 40)

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Title

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Edinburgh, Edinburgh UL, MS 40)

Contains reference to Birgitta

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Language

Latin

Forms part of

Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library, MS 40

Carries work

Calendar, Use of Sarum
Fifteen Oes
Suffrages
Hours of the Virgin, Use of Sarum
Salve Regina
Latin prayer (inc. O beata et intemerata et in eternum benedicta)
Latin prayer (inc. Obsecro te domina sancta maria mater dei)
Seven Joys of the Virgin
Devotions to the cross and passion of Jesus Christ
Prayers at Mass
Seven Penitential Psalms
Fifteen Gradual Psalms
Litany, Use of Sarum
Office of the Dead
Commendationes animarum
Psalms of the Passion
Psalter of St. Jerome

Hand

The script is Gothic of a good type, possibly by a French handn

Decoration

The illumination is certainly by a French hand. It may have been executed by a Frenchman in England or in France for an English owner.
Decoration consists of initials, borders, and miniatures

Writing support

Parchment

Number of lines

20

Folios

ff. 1r-181r

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