Part 1: ff. 1r-147v

Description: - Parchment - 172 x 116 mm

Country: France

City: Rouen

Assigned Date: s. XV3/4

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Figurative Decoration: 14 miniatures over 4 lines of text with full borders decorated with burnished gold; 11 small miniatures within text.

Other Decoration: 3-line initials on square gold grounds; 2- and 1-line initials within text in gold on alternating blue and red grounds; floral borders with painted gold the length of the text.

Acknowledgments: - We thank Professor James Marrow for information on the origin of this manuscript.




Text 1: ff. 1r-147v

Title: Book of Hours, Sarum use

Language(s): Latin

Image 1: f. iv verso Bookplate of Richard Towneley.

Image 2: f. 3r March.

Image 3: f. 13r Small miniature, John of Patmos

Image 4: f. 17r Miniature: Virgin and Child enthroned.

Image 5: f. 26r Miniature: Annunciation.

Image 6: ff. 39v-40r Suffrage for St. Thomas of Canterbury crossed out.

Image 7: f. 41v Miniature: Nativity.

Image 8: f. 45r Miniature: Annunciation to the shepherds.

Image 9: f. 51v Miniature: Flight into Egypt.

Image 10: f. 53v Miniature: Coronation of the Virgin.

Image 11: f. 58r Hierarchy of initials.

Image 12: f. 60v Miniature: Mary with dead Christ, cross in background

Image 13: f. 63v Miniature: Angel with two swords appearing to David, whose harp lie on the ground beside him.

Image 14: ff. 44v-45r Opening with Annunciation to the shepherds.

Image 15: f. 79v Miniature: burial service.

Image 16: f. 101v Miniature: funeral service.

Image 17: f. 114r Miniature: Crucifixion.

Image 18: f. 129v Miniature: St. Jerome in his study.

Image 19: ff. 142v-143r Miniature: Christ carrying the cross; small miniature, crucifixion.

Image 20: ff. 143v-144r Small miniatures, the wounds of Christ

Image 21: f. 146v Arma Christi.