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Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (London, Victoria and Albert Museum, MSL/1902/1691)

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Title

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (London, Victoria and Albert Museum, MSL/1902/1691)

Contains reference to Birgitta

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Language

Latin

Forms part of

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, MSL/1902/1691

Carries work

Calendar, Use of Sarum
Supplications to the five wounds of Christ
Suffrages
Account of St. Armagil
Suffrage of Henry VI
Fifteen Oes
Vision in which the Virgin Mary reveals to John the Evangelist her five sorrows
Hours of the Virgin, Use of Sarum
Hymns to the Virgin
Seven Joys of the Virgin
Devotions to the cross and passion of Jesus Christ
Psalm 12:4 (extract)
Seven Penitential Psalms
Fifteen Gradual Psalms
Litany, Use of Sarum
Office of the Dead
Commendationes animarum
Psalms of the Passion
Psalter of St. Jerome
Five Joys of the Virgin

Hand

Compact Gothic Textura with additions in cursive script

Decoration

18 miniatures on singleton, in narrow square frames on diapered, damask or landscape backgrounds. Large initials in blue and lake on gold grounds at beginnings of principal sections. Full borders to miniatures of pen tracery and holly leaves picked out in gold. Blue, red and gold calligraphic line-fillers in Litany.

Writing support

Parchment

Leaf page dimensions

270 mm x 205 mm

Number of columns

1

Number of lines

22

Folios

ff. 1r-134v

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