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Bod-Inc: H-187

Horae ad usum Sarum (Salisbury)

 

Analysis of Content

A1r [Title-page.]

A2r [Calendarium.]

A2r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘In iano claris calidisque cibis potiaris | Atque decens potus post fercula sit tibi notus'; 4 hexameters for each month of the calendar. Wordsworth 6-17; see Walther, Proverbia, 11795.

B3v [Evangelia.] Io 1, 1-14; Lc 1, 26-38; Mt 2, 1-12; Mc 16, 14-20.

B7r ‘Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Iohannem.’ Io 18,1-19,42.

D1r [Devotae orationes.] Incipit: ‘These prayers folowynge ought for to be sayd or ye departe out of your chamber at your uprysynge . . .’ As H‑179, 1-26.

D8r ‘Hore beate Marie virginis secundum vsum Sarum.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’

b1v [Suffragia.] As H‑179, 1-17. Wordsworth 44-5; Hoskins 109-10.

b5v ‘De sancta cruce.’ Incipit: ‘Patris sapientia, veritas diuina . . . [AH 30 no. 13]. Oratio. Domine Iesu Christe fili dei viui pone passionem . . .’ Wordsworth 46.

d4r [Salve regina.] Incipit: ‘Salue regina misericordie . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 18147; AH 50 no. 245.

d4v [Quinque gaudia BVM.] Incipit: ‘Gaude virgo mater Christi . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 7017; AH 42 no. 73 / 1a; 2a; 5a; 6a; 7a; Meersseman, Akathistos, II 39, 207; Hoskins 110.

d5r [Septem gaudia BVM.] Incipit: ‘Gaude flore virginali . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 6810; AH 31 no. 189; Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 343 no. xxxii; Hoskins 110.

d7r [Oratio ad BVM.] Incipit: ‘O intemerata . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 336 no. xxi.

d8r [Alia oratio.] Incipit: ‘Sancta Maria dei genitrix semperque virgo benedicta . . .’ Wordsworth 68; Hoskins 111.

d8v ‘Oratio de virgine Maria.’ Incipit: ‘Obsecro te . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 346 no. xxxviii.

e2r [De beata virgine Maria pro vitae incolumitate.] Incipit: ‘Sancta Maria regina celi et terre, mater . . .’ Hoskins 111.

e3r [Oratio ad BVM contra pestem.] Incipit: ‘Stella celi extirpauit . . . [Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 19438]. Oratio. Deus misericordie deus pietatis . . .’ Wordsworth 69.

e3v ‘Ad eleuationem corporis Christi.’ Incipit: ‘Aue verum corpus natum . . . [Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 2175]. [Oratio.] [A]ve Iesu Christe verbum patris . . . [Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 1844]. [Alia.] In presentia sacrosancti corporis . . . [Oratio.] Domine Iesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem . . . [De sanctissima trinitate.] Sancta trinitas vnus deus . . . [Oratio.] Deus qui superbis resistis . . . Deus qui liberasti susannam . . . Domine Iesu Christe qui me creasti . . . Domine Iesu Christe qui solus es sapientia . . .’ Wordsworth 70-3.

e6v [Oratio ad tres reges.] Incipit: ‘Rex Iaspar, rex Melchior . . . [Oratio.] Deus illuminator . . . [Alia.] Trium regum . . . [Oratio.] Deus qui tres magos . . .’ Wordsworth 74-5.

e7v [Quindecim orationes ad memoriam vulnerum Ihesu Christi.] Incipit: ‘O domine Iesu Christe eterna dulcedo . . .’ Wordsworth 76-80; Hoskins 111-12.

f4r Gregorius(?): [Orationes sancti Gregorii.] ‘To all them that before the ymage of pyte deuoutly say .v. Pater noster .v. Aues . . .’ Incipit: ‘Adoro te domine Iesu Christe in cruce pendentem . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II, 346 no. xxxvii, in the order: 1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 3; Hoskins 112.

f5r Sixtus IV, Pont. Max.(?): [Oratio dicenda ante crucifixum.] ‘Dominus papa Sixtus quartus composuis(!) quartam et quintam predictorum suffragiorum oraciuncnlas(!) . . .’ Incipit: ‘O pie crucifixe redemptor omnium populorum . . .’ Wordsworth 82-3.

f6v Bernardinus(?): ‘Sequitur oratio sancti Bernardini confessoris ordinis minorum.’ Incipit: ‘O bone Iesu. O dulcis Iesu. O Iesu fili Marie virginis plenus misericordia . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 345 no. xxxvi; Wordsworth 83-4.

f7v [Suffragia II.] As H‑179, 18-32. See Hoskins 112-13.

g5v ‘A deuoute prayer in englysshe.’ Incipit: ‘O glorious Iesu. O mekest Iesu. O most swettest Iesu . . . O the moost sweteste spouse of my soule Crist Iesu desiring hertely euermore . . .’ Wordsworth 85-6.

g6r [Orationes.] ‘Iste orationes debent dici in agonia mortis per sacerdotem pro infirmo in mutando verba . . . Oratio.’ Incipit: ‘Domine Iesu Christe per agoniam et orationem tuam sanctissimam qua orasti pro nobis in monte . . .’ See Hoskins 114.

g8v ‘Oratio ad patrem.’ Wordsworth 124.

h1r ‘Oratio ad filium.’ Wordsworth 124.

h1r ‘Oratio ad spiritum sanctum.’ Wordsworth 124-5.

h1v [Preces diversae et Suffragia.] ‘Oratio bona quotidie dicentibus reuelatione diuina transmissa vni monacho de Bynhym circa annum domini .M. cccc. lxxxv . . .’ Incipit: ‘Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori . . .’ Antiphon for S. Michael. Followed by ‘Oratio ad sanctum Gabrielem', ‘Oratio ad sanctum Raphaelem.' Wordsworth 125; see Hoskins 114. For Binham see H‑179.

h2v [Benedictio.] Incipit: ‘Benedicat me imperialis maiestas, protegat me regalis diuinitas . . .’ See Hoskins 114.

h3r [Two prayers in English.] Incipit: ‘O blyssed trinite, fader, sonne, and holy goost, thre persones and one god . . . O lorde god almyghtye all seynge all thynges knowynge . . .’ Revell, Fifteenth Century English Prayers, 63 no. 201 (a-b); Wordsworth 86-7.

h4v ‘Sequuntur septem psalmi penitenciales.’ Incipit: ‘Domine ne in furore tuo . . .’ Ps 6; 31; 37; 50; 101; 129; 142.

i1v ‘Quindecim psalmi.’ Incipit: ‘Ad dominum cum tribularer. Leuaui oculos meos . . .’ Ps 119-133.

i2v [Litaniae sanctorum.] As H‑179.

i8v Bernardus(?): ‘Versus sancti Bernardi.’ Incipit: ‘Illumina oculos . . .’ Ps 12,4; 24,4; 30,6; 38,5; 115,16; 141,5; 4,7; 85,17.

i8v [The short prayers taught by Our Lady to St Birgitta.] Incipit: ‘Iesu fili dei omnium conditor . . .’ See Hoskins 115.

k1r [A prayer against thunder and tempest showed by an angel to St Edward.] Incipit: ‘Titulus triumphalis Iesus nazarenus . . .’ See Hoskins 115.

k1v ‘Incipiunt vigilie mortuorum. Ad vesperas.’ Incipit: ‘Antiphona. Placebo . . .’

m2r ‘Hic incipiunt commendationes animarum.’ Incipit: ‘[B]eati immaculati in via . . .’

n2r ‘Oratio ad sanctam crucem.’ Incipit: ‘Salue salue rex sanctorum, spes notiua(!) peccatorum . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 18170 (= 17989).

n2v [Oratio ad manus Christi.] Incipit: ‘Salue salue Iesu bone, fatigatus in agoue(!) . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 18166 (= 17984).

n2v ‘Incipiunt psalmi de passione Christi.’ Incipit: ‘Deus deus meus respice in me quare me dereliquisti . . .’ Ps 22-6, 28-30. Wordsworth 114-16.

o1r [Psalterium Ieronimi.] ‘Beatus Ieronimus in hoc modo disposuit . . .’ Incipit: ‘Verba mea auribus percipe . . . [Oratio.] Dona michi queso . . .’ Wordsworth 116-23.

p1r ‘Oratio ad sanctum Ieronimum.’ Incipit: ‘[Antiphona.] Aue amator quam famose ieronime . . . Oratio. Deus qui gloriosum confessorem tuum Ieronimum . . .’ See Wordsworth 123 n. 1; Hoskins 115.

p2r Gregorius(?): ‘Oratio sancti Gregorii.’ Incipit: ‘Dominator domine deus omnipotens qui es trinitas in filio . . .’ See Hoskins 116.

p3v ‘Sequitur rosarium beate Marie.’ Incipit: ‘Aue Maria gratia plena . . . Quem de spiritu sancto angelo nunciante concepisti . . .’ Meersseman, Akathistos, III 150-3, 157-9.

p6r ‘The contentes conteyned in this boke.’

p8r [Colophon.]

Imprint

Imprint: [London]: Richard Pynson, [c.1497]. 4°.

Collation

Collation: A B8 C4 D a–p8.

Leaves: 148 leaves.

Line number: 22 lines (B3r).

Type area: Type area: 123 × 75 mm, with borders 155 × 105 mm (B3r).

Illustrations: Woodcuts: 8 large (124 × 78 mm), 2 medium (92 × 57 mm), 13 small (53 × 42 mm). Each text page is within a combination of historiated borders and decorative elements such as grotesques and floral and figurative designs. Some of the woodcuts have typeset captions in red.

References

ISTC: ih00420700

Hain: C 3134;

Proctor: Pr 9806;

Others: Duff 192; Hoskins 16; Sheppard 7549; STC 15886.

LCN: 14462295

Copies

Copy number: H-187(1)

Printed on parchment.

Binding: Eighteenth-century English gold-tooled red morocco (Harleian copy?); marbled pastedowns and gilt-edged leaves.

Size: 199 × 129 × 35 mm.

Size of leaf: 190 × 123 mm.

A few marginal additions and pointing hands in Margaret Porter's hand. Bibliographical notes on the front endleaf and a list of woodcuts on the rear endleaf, in Douce's hand. In the upper margin of the rear pastedown: ‘Bb [ ] [ ] .' The notes relating to indulgences have been erased (e.g. on f4r), as has the name of Pope Sixtus on f5r. In the borders all occurrences of the prophecy of Sibylla Agrippa, prophesying the flagellation of Christ, and all occurrences of the image showing Roman soldiers spitting on Christ have been erased. References to popes and to Thomas of Canterbury have also been erased.

Provenance: Margaret Porter (fifteenth/sixteenth century); on c3v: ‘Marg[ar]et Porter gentilwoman'. William Herbert (1718-1795); armorial book-plate: per pale, azure and gules, three lions rampant argent; crest, a wyvern holding in its mouth a sinister hand. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce BB 128.

SHELFMARK: Arch. G e.38.


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