Bod-Inc: H-189
Horae ad usum Sarum (Salisbury)
Analysis of Content
A1r [Calendarium.]
A1r [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.
B5r [Evangelia.] Io 1, 1-14; Lc 1, 26-38; Mt 2, 1-12; Mc 16, 14-20.
B8v [Devotae orationes.] Incipit: ‘These prayers folovvyng ought for to be sayd or ye departe out of your chambre at your uprysyng . . .’ As H‑179, 1-24; [25; 26.]
C8v ‘Hore beate Marie virginis secundum vsum Sarum.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
f8?r? ‘Sequuntur vigilie mortuorum. Ad vesperas.’ Incipit: ‘Antiphona. Placebo . . .’
i3r ‘Incipit commendatio animarum.’ Incipit: ‘[B]eati immaculati in via . . .’
k3v ‘Incipiunt psalmi de passione.’ Incipit: ‘[D]eus deus meus respice . . . Oratio. Respice quesumus domine super hanc familiam . . .’ Ps 22-6, 28-30. Wordsworth 116-23.
l3v ‘Incipit psalterium sancti Hyeronimi.’ Incipit: ‘[V]erba mea auribus percipe . . .’ Wordsworth 116-23.
m4v ‘Oratio deuota de nomine Iesu.’ Incipit: ‘[O] bone Iesu, o piissime Iesu . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 345 no. xxxvi.
m5r [Quindecim orationes ad memoriam vulnerum Ihesu Christi.] Incipit: ‘[O] domine Iesu Christe eterna dulcedo . . .’ Wordsworth 76-80; Hoskins 111-12.
o2r Gregorius(?): [Orationes sancti Gregorii.] ‘Beatissimus Gregorius dum esset summus pontifex . . .’ Incipit: ‘[O] domine Iesu Christe, adoro te in cruce pendentem . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 346 no. xxxvii, in the order: 1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 3; Hoskins 112.
o3r ‘Sequitur oratio de rege Henrico . . .’ Incipit: ‘[P]resta quesumus omnipotens et misericors deus, ut qui deuotissimi regis Henrici . . .’ Hoskins 117.
o3v [Suffragia.] As H‑179, . . . 20; . . . 23; 22; . . . 26; 28; 29; 31; . . .
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Étienne Jehannot, c.1497-9]. 8°.
Collation
Collation: A–C d–o8.
Line number: 23 lines (B5v).
Type area: Type area: 95 × 55 mm, with borders 121 × 76 mm (B5v).
Illustrations: Three small woodcuts left (38 × 25 mm). Each text page is within borders decorated with grotesques and floral and figurative designs.
References
ISTC: ih00422500
Proctor: Pr 8486;
Others: not in Sheppard; STC 15881.3.
LCN: 14463856
Copies
Copy number: H-189(1)
Wanting B4, B5, d1, d6, d8, all of gatherings e and f, g1, k4, k5, all of gathering n. Leaves o4-7 are mutilated. Misbound in the following order: leaves 1-8 (= A8), 9-11 (= B1-3), 12-14 (= B5-8), 28, 19, 16, 15, 18, 17, 20, 29 (= C8), 22, 21, 24, 25 (= d2-5), 23 (= d7), 26 (containing the opening of the xv psalmi) and 27 (containing prayers following the litanies) must be located somewhere in gatherings e or f, 30-55 (= g2-8, h8, i8, k1-3), 56-74 (= k6-8, l8, m8), 75-82 (= o8).
Printed on parchment.
Binding: Parchment, with gilt-edged leaves. Title along the spine and ‘67' in white on head of the spine.
Size: 165 × 105 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 157 × 99 mm.
Early inscription in English in the lower margin of k3v.
Coloured woodcuts. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in gold on a red or brown ground. Capitals touched with yellow wash. Ruling in red ink.
Provenance: William Baynes (sixteenth/seventeenth century); inscription in the lower margin of A1r: ‘Gulielmus Baynes hunc librum debet'. Acquired after 1738.
Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Arch. Bodl. D 67 subtus; Arch. Bodl. D f.24.’
SHELFMARK: Arch. B f.42.
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