A book of devotional offices, etc., for private use, written about A.D. 1433-1475 in England
Consisting of:
- (fol. 2) select festival and votive masses
- (fol. 17) proper prefaces, benedictions, etc., Hours of the Virgin with many rubrics
- (fol. 36v) more masses
- (fol. 42) Calendar and calendarial tables
- (fol. 56v) more masses
- (fol. 68) 'Liber Psalmorum ymnorum vel soliloquiorum prophete de Christo', i.e. a Psalter
- (fol. 204) Canticles
- (fol. 218) followed by a Litany
- (fol. 229) and an Office for the Dead with prayers, etc.
At fols. 256, 256v, are masses 'pro Rege' and 'pro Rege & Regina.' An English table of contents is at fol. 1.
The calendarial tables suggest the date 1433 for the book, but some are copied from earlier tables of 1386 (cf. fol. 54), and one is of 1475 (fol. 66v: added). There are figures of eclipses 1433-62 (fol. 49).
There are some good miniatures on fols. 10v, 11, 68, and several smaller ones, with borders, etc.
Dates
- Creation: written about A.D. 1433-1475 in England
Extent
262 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Latin
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 18
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no 21592
Our best descriptions for medieval items in this collection are in Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries under MSS. Douce.
Custodial History
Owned by S. Cooke (fols. 1v, 259v: 18th cent.), and given by John Cooke, M.A., chaplain of Ch. Ch. Oxford, to John Ireland 'pharmacopola' in 1779.
Physical Facet
On parchment, illuminated
Dimensions
4 5/8 × 3 1/4 in.
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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