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<p style='text-align: justify;'>This Book of Hours was made in Flanders for the English market (see Rogers (1982), pp. 6 n. 8, 365). Following its arrival in England, various Latin and English texts were added to the manuscript by 15th-century hands. This includes a leaf of parchment containing a suffrage to St Roche that had been cut from an English illuminated prayer roll (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>1</a>).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The contents and specific order of the original texts in this manuscript closely match with those in another Book of Hours that was made in Flanders for the English market: this manuscript, now <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998194758805867'>Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 35</a>, was made in Bruges around the year 1460 and, in the 16th century, owned by Sir Thomas Mildmay (b. in or before 1515, d. 1566).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>While the Newberry Book of Hours was decorated by the so-called Mildmay Master, this manuscript probably was decorated by a closely associated artist or group of artists. For example, the full-page miniatures of Christ with an open book (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(22);return false;'>9v</a>); the Throne of Mercy (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(34);return false;'>15v</a>); St George (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(46);return false;'>21v</a>); St Margaret (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(70);return false;'>33v</a>); and the Crucifixion (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(128);return false;'>62v</a>) in Fitzwilliam MS 51 all closely resemble corresponding miniatures in Newberry Library MS 35. The textual and decorative parallels between both manuscripts strongly support the idea that Fitzwilliam MS 51 was made in Bruges.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Clarck Drieshen<br /> Project Cataloguer for Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries<br /> Cambridge University Library</p>

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Book of Hours (Use of Sarum) (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 51)

This Book of Hours was made in Flanders for the English market (see Rogers (1982), pp. 6 n. 8, 365). Following its arrival in England, various Latin and English texts were added to the manuscript by 15th-century hands. This includes a leaf of parchment containing a suffrage to St Roche that had been cut from an English illuminated prayer roll (f. 1).

The contents and specific order of the original texts in this manuscript closely match with those in another Book of Hours that was made in Flanders for the English market: this manuscript, now Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 35, was made in Bruges around the year 1460 and, in the 16th century, owned by Sir Thomas Mildmay (b. in or before 1515, d. 1566).

While the Newberry Book of Hours was decorated by the so-called Mildmay Master, this manuscript probably was decorated by a closely associated artist or group of artists. For example, the full-page miniatures of Christ with an open book (f. 9v); the Throne of Mercy (f. 15v); St George (f. 21v); St Margaret (f. 33v); and the Crucifixion (f. 62v) in Fitzwilliam MS 51 all closely resemble corresponding miniatures in Newberry Library MS 35. The textual and decorative parallels between both manuscripts strongly support the idea that Fitzwilliam MS 51 was made in Bruges.

Clarck Drieshen
Project Cataloguer for Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries
Cambridge University Library

Information about this document

  • Physical Location: Fitzwilliam Museum Collection
  • Classmark: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 51
  • Date of Creation: c. 1460-c. 1480
  • Language(s): Latin and Middle English
  • Physical Description:

    11r: amarissimi doloris

  • Extent: Codex: i + 140 + ii leaves. Leaf height: 175 mm, width: 120 mm.
  • Collation:

    This manuscript is currently too tightly bound and appears to have too many irregularities (e.g. tipped in singletons) to securely establish a collation formula.

  • Material: Parchment (FHHF)
  • Format: Codex
  • Binding:

    19th-century quarter binding with brown leather spine and corners with marbled paper sides over pasteboards. The spine with four raised bands and a gold-stamped title inscription on a red leather label: "Missal Illuminated"; and the fore edge incised with the monogram "TP".

    Binding height: 185 mm; width: 125 mm; depth: 35 mm.

  • Script:

    Folios 3r-8v copied by a single hand working in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.

    Folios 10r-139r copied by a single hand working in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.

    Added suffrages on folios 1v-2v, 9r, 15r, 19r, 20v-21r, 22v-23r, 24v-25r, 26v-27r, 29r, 31r, 139r by English scribes working in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata scripts.

    Added suffrages on folios 32v-33r by an English scribe in a cursive sript with anglicana features.

    Added medical ritual on folios 139v-140r by an English scribe in a cursive sript with anglicana and secretary features.

  • Foliation:

    20th-century foliation:

    i + 1-140 + ii-iii + [iv]

    Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos. Folios i, ii, and iii are early modern paper flyleaves. Folio [iv] is a modern paper leaf with a printed description of the manuscript.

  • Layout: Written height: 100 mm, width: 70 mm. Ruled in dark pink ink, frame and line ruling. Mainly single columns. 21 lines to the page, written below top line.
  • Decoration:

    Twenty-four full-page minatures framed in gold with full acanthus, floral, and spraywork borders.

    • Folio 9v: Christ standing, blessing with open book, and flanked by angels.
    • Folio 15v: Throne of Mercy.
    • Folio 17v: St John the Baptist.
    • Folio 19v: Martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury.
    • Folio 21v: St George.
    • Folio 23v: St Christopher.
    • Folio 25v: St Anne with open book, Virgin and Child, and angel.
    • Folio 27v: St Katherine of Alexandria.
    • Folio 29v: St Mary Magdalene.
    • Folio 31v: St Barbara.
    • Folio 33v: St Margaret emerging from dragon in prayer directed at Christ above.
    • Folio 35v: Agony in the Garden.
    • Folio 41v: Arrest of Christ.
    • Folio 52v: Christ before Pilate.
    • Folio 56v: The Flagellation.
    • Folio 59v: Christ carrying the Cross.
    • Folio 62v: The Crucifixion.
    • Folio 65v: The Deposition.
    • Folio 67v: The Entombment.
    • Folio 86v: The Last Judgement with the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist interceding.
    • Folio 98v: A funeral service.
    • Folio 114v: Souls carried to heaven by angels.
    • Folio 124v: The Man of Sorrows with the instruments of the Passion.
    • Folio 130v: St Jerome writing.


    One half-page initial in a wide decorative frame, added by an English artist: f. 1v: St Anthony with pig.


    Twenty historiated initials in white-patterned pink and blue on gold grounds for lesser text divisions:

    • Folio 47r: Holy Spirit.
    • Folio 47v: St Michael.
    • Folio 48r: St Peter and St Paul.
    • Folio 48v: St Andrew.
    • Folio 48v: St Laurence.
    • Folio 49r: St Stephen.
    • Folio 50r: St Nicholas.
    • Folio 50v: All Saints.
    • Folio 71r: Annunciation.
    • Folio 75r: The Virgin and Child.
    • Folio 78r: Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple.
    • Folio 80r: Wound in Christ's right hand.
    • Folio 80r: Wound in Christ's left hand.
    • Folio 80r: The Five Wounds.
    • Folio 80v: Wound in Christ's right foot.
    • Folio 80v: Wound in Christ's left foot.
    • Folio 81v: The Crucixifion with the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist.
    • Folio 81v: Empty cross.
    • Folio 82r: St John the Evangelist.


    Large (6 lines) pink or blue white-patterned initials with foliage infill on gold grounds and full acanthus, floral, and spraywork borders, facing and mathing those for the full-page miniatures at major text dviisions


    Large (2 lines) gold initials on pink and blue white-patterned grounds


    Large (2 lines) gold initials with brown pen-flourishing on f. 1v [2x].


    Small (1 line) plain initials alternatively in gold or blue with black or red pen-flourishing.


    Line-fillers in gold, blue or red.


    Headings of and introductions to texts of prayer copied in red ink.

  • Provenance:

    One or more owners from Northern England or Scotland in the second half of the 15th century: suggested by the additional suffrages to St Ninian, Hugh of Lincoln, Cuthbert, and Armel.

    An acquaintance of a certain Edward Smith (fl. 16th century): perhaps owned or accessed the manuscript, as suggested by the 16th-century inscription on f. 27r: "Edward Smith is a knave and a base rogue".

    T.P., fl. ? 17th century: owned the manusript: their initials inscribed on f. 140v: "P[?er] T.B." with the number "26" inscribed above (in different ink); and incised in the manuscript's fore-edge..

  • Acquisition: Purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum from Bernard Quaritch in 1890 for £60 (this sum inscribed in pencil on the inside of the front cover, and f. i recto). A cutting from a sale catalogue (probably Sotheby's), with a brief description of this manuscript at lot no. 626, has been pasted onto f. [iv] recto. Former pressmark "J. 51" stamped on the inside of the front cover.
  • Funding: Wellcome
  • Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on the descriptions provided by M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895) and Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge: A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, Nigel Morgan and Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elizabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt and Andrea Worm, Part One: Volume Two: The Meuse Region - Southern Neterlands (London: Harvey Miller, 2009)
  • Author(s) of the Record: Dr Clarck Drieshen, Project Cataloguer in Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries, Cambridge University Library
  • Bibliography:
    James, Montague Rhodes, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge: University Press, 1895).
    Cholmeley, Henry Patrick, John of Gaddesden and the Rosa medicinae (Oxford: Clarendon, 1912).
    Müller, Gottfried, Aus Mittelenglischen Medizintexten: Die Prosarezepte des Stockholmer Miszellankodex X. 90., Kölner Anglistische Arbeiten (Leipzig: Tauchitz, 1929) 10.
    Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
    Rogers, Nicholas, Books of Hours Produced in the Low Countries for the English Market in the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge: 1982).
    Rand, Kari Anne, Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Index of Middle English Prose 18 (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2006).
    Morgan, Nigel J. and Stella Panayotova, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria (vol. 1); The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands (vol. 2), 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 2009).
    Rudy, Kathryn M., Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).
    Morse, Mary, English Birth Girdles Devotions for Women in “Travell of Childe", Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Berlin: De Gruyer, 2024) 38.

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Inscription refering to the Virgin Mary (image 5, page 1r) Suffrage to St Anthony (image 6, page 1v) Suffrage to St Thomas the Apostle (image 7, page 2r) Suffrage to St Eustace (image 8, page 2v) Calendar (image 9, page 3r) Suffrage to St Ninian (image 21, page 9r) The Fifteen Oes (image 22, page 9v) Suffrage to St Philip (image 33, page 15r) Suffrage to the Trinity (image 34, page 15v) Prayer to Christ for salvation (image 36, page 16v) Suffrage to St John the Baptist (image 38, page 17v) Suffrage to St Bartholomew (image 41, page 19r) Suffrage to St Thomas Becket (image 42, page 19v) Suffrage to St Matthew (image 44, page 20v) Suffrage to St George (image 46, page 21v) Suffrage to St Matthew (image 48, page 22v) Suffrage to St Simon and St Jude (image 49, page 23r) Suffrage to St Christopher (image 50, page 23v) Suffrage to St Hugh of Lincoln [Avalon] (image 52, page 24v) Suffrage to St Anne (image 54, page 25v) Suffrage to St Cuthbert (image 56, page 26v) Suffrage to St Katherine (image 58, page 27v) Suffrage to St James the Great (image 61, page 29r) Suffrage to St Mary Magdalen (image 62, page 29v) Suffrage to St James the Less (image 65, page 31r) Suffrage to St Barbara (image 66, page 31v) Suffrage to St Armagil of Brittany (image 68, page 32v) Suffrage to St Margaret (image 70, page 33v) The Hours of the Virgin with memoriae at Lauds (image 74, page 35v) The hymn Ave virgo virginum stella matutina (in the form of an exposition on the Salve regina) (image 145, page 71r) O Intemerata (image 152, page 74v) Obsecro te (image 157, page 77r) The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary (with indulgence) (image 159, page 78r) Salutations to the wounds of the Crown of Thorns and the Five Wounds (image 163, page 80r) Prayer to the Virgin Mary (image 165, page 81r) Prayer to Christ on the Cross (image 165, page 81r) Prayer to the Cross (image 166, page 81v) Prayer to the Wounded Head of Christ (image 166, page 81v) Prayer to St John the Evangelist (image 167, page 82r) Prayer to God invoking the Passion (image 168, page 82v) Prayer invoking the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (image 168, page 82v) Prayer on the Passion (image 171, page 84r) Salutations to Christ (image 172, page 84v) Ave caro Christi cara (image 173, page 85r) Anima Christi (image 173, page 85r) Prayer for the Elevation (with indulgence) (image 174, page 85v) The Seven Penitential Psalms (image 176, page 86v) The Fifteen Gradual Psalms (image 188, page 92v) Litany of Saints (image 190, page 93v) Office of the Dead (image 200, page 98v) Commendation of the Souls (image 232, page 114v) The Ten Psalms of the Passion (image 252, page 124v) Preface to the Psalter of St Jerome (image 261, page 129r) The Psalter of St Jerome (image 264, page 130v) Suffrage for St Roch (image 281, page 139r) Liturgical ritual with twelve candels and medical recipe that form a remedy against epilepsy (image 282, page 139v)
  1. Item Metadata

    Information about this document

    • Physical Location: Fitzwilliam Museum Collection
    • Classmark: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 51
    • Date of Creation: c. 1460-c. 1480
    • Language(s): Latin and Middle English
    • Physical Description:

      11r: amarissimi doloris

    • Extent: Codex: i + 140 + ii leaves. Leaf height: 175 mm, width: 120 mm.
    • Collation:

      This manuscript is currently too tightly bound and appears to have too many irregularities (e.g. tipped in singletons) to securely establish a collation formula.

    • Material: Parchment (FHHF)
    • Format: Codex
    • Binding:

      19th-century quarter binding with brown leather spine and corners with marbled paper sides over pasteboards. The spine with four raised bands and a gold-stamped title inscription on a red leather label: "Missal Illuminated"; and the fore edge incised with the monogram "TP".

      Binding height: 185 mm; width: 125 mm; depth: 35 mm.

    • Script:

      Folios 3r-8v copied by a single hand working in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.

      Folios 10r-139r copied by a single hand working in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.

      Added suffrages on folios 1v-2v, 9r, 15r, 19r, 20v-21r, 22v-23r, 24v-25r, 26v-27r, 29r, 31r, 139r by English scribes working in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata scripts.

      Added suffrages on folios 32v-33r by an English scribe in a cursive sript with anglicana features.

      Added medical ritual on folios 139v-140r by an English scribe in a cursive sript with anglicana and secretary features.

    • Foliation:

      20th-century foliation:

      i + 1-140 + ii-iii + [iv]

      Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos. Folios i, ii, and iii are early modern paper flyleaves. Folio [iv] is a modern paper leaf with a printed description of the manuscript.

    • Layout: Written height: 100 mm, width: 70 mm. Ruled in dark pink ink, frame and line ruling. Mainly single columns. 21 lines to the page, written below top line.
    • Decoration:

      Twenty-four full-page minatures framed in gold with full acanthus, floral, and spraywork borders.

      • Folio 9v: Christ standing, blessing with open book, and flanked by angels.
      • Folio 15v: Throne of Mercy.
      • Folio 17v: St John the Baptist.
      • Folio 19v: Martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury.
      • Folio 21v: St George.
      • Folio 23v: St Christopher.
      • Folio 25v: St Anne with open book, Virgin and Child, and angel.
      • Folio 27v: St Katherine of Alexandria.
      • Folio 29v: St Mary Magdalene.
      • Folio 31v: St Barbara.
      • Folio 33v: St Margaret emerging from dragon in prayer directed at Christ above.
      • Folio 35v: Agony in the Garden.
      • Folio 41v: Arrest of Christ.
      • Folio 52v: Christ before Pilate.
      • Folio 56v: The Flagellation.
      • Folio 59v: Christ carrying the Cross.
      • Folio 62v: The Crucifixion.
      • Folio 65v: The Deposition.
      • Folio 67v: The Entombment.
      • Folio 86v: The Last Judgement with the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist interceding.
      • Folio 98v: A funeral service.
      • Folio 114v: Souls carried to heaven by angels.
      • Folio 124v: The Man of Sorrows with the instruments of the Passion.
      • Folio 130v: St Jerome writing.


      One half-page initial in a wide decorative frame, added by an English artist: f. 1v: St Anthony with pig.


      Twenty historiated initials in white-patterned pink and blue on gold grounds for lesser text divisions:

      • Folio 47r: Holy Spirit.
      • Folio 47v: St Michael.
      • Folio 48r: St Peter and St Paul.
      • Folio 48v: St Andrew.
      • Folio 48v: St Laurence.
      • Folio 49r: St Stephen.
      • Folio 50r: St Nicholas.
      • Folio 50v: All Saints.
      • Folio 71r: Annunciation.
      • Folio 75r: The Virgin and Child.
      • Folio 78r: Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple.
      • Folio 80r: Wound in Christ's right hand.
      • Folio 80r: Wound in Christ's left hand.
      • Folio 80r: The Five Wounds.
      • Folio 80v: Wound in Christ's right foot.
      • Folio 80v: Wound in Christ's left foot.
      • Folio 81v: The Crucixifion with the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist.
      • Folio 81v: Empty cross.
      • Folio 82r: St John the Evangelist.


      Large (6 lines) pink or blue white-patterned initials with foliage infill on gold grounds and full acanthus, floral, and spraywork borders, facing and mathing those for the full-page miniatures at major text dviisions


      Large (2 lines) gold initials on pink and blue white-patterned grounds


      Large (2 lines) gold initials with brown pen-flourishing on f. 1v [2x].


      Small (1 line) plain initials alternatively in gold or blue with black or red pen-flourishing.


      Line-fillers in gold, blue or red.


      Headings of and introductions to texts of prayer copied in red ink.

    • Provenance:

      One or more owners from Northern England or Scotland in the second half of the 15th century: suggested by the additional suffrages to St Ninian, Hugh of Lincoln, Cuthbert, and Armel.

      An acquaintance of a certain Edward Smith (fl. 16th century): perhaps owned or accessed the manuscript, as suggested by the 16th-century inscription on f. 27r: "Edward Smith is a knave and a base rogue".

      T.P., fl. ? 17th century: owned the manusript: their initials inscribed on f. 140v: "P[?er] T.B." with the number "26" inscribed above (in different ink); and incised in the manuscript's fore-edge..

    • Acquisition: Purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum from Bernard Quaritch in 1890 for £60 (this sum inscribed in pencil on the inside of the front cover, and f. i recto). A cutting from a sale catalogue (probably Sotheby's), with a brief description of this manuscript at lot no. 626, has been pasted onto f. [iv] recto. Former pressmark "J. 51" stamped on the inside of the front cover.
    • Funding: Wellcome
    • Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on the descriptions provided by M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895) and Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge: A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, Nigel Morgan and Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elizabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt and Andrea Worm, Part One: Volume Two: The Meuse Region - Southern Neterlands (London: Harvey Miller, 2009)
    • Author(s) of the Record: Dr Clarck Drieshen, Project Cataloguer in Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries, Cambridge University Library
    • Bibliography:
      James, Montague Rhodes, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge: University Press, 1895).
      Cholmeley, Henry Patrick, John of Gaddesden and the Rosa medicinae (Oxford: Clarendon, 1912).
      Müller, Gottfried, Aus Mittelenglischen Medizintexten: Die Prosarezepte des Stockholmer Miszellankodex X. 90., Kölner Anglistische Arbeiten (Leipzig: Tauchitz, 1929) 10.
      Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
      Rogers, Nicholas, Books of Hours Produced in the Low Countries for the English Market in the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge: 1982).
      Rand, Kari Anne, Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Index of Middle English Prose 18 (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2006).
      Morgan, Nigel J. and Stella Panayotova, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria (vol. 1); The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands (vol. 2), 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 2009).
      Rudy, Kathryn M., Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).
      Morse, Mary, English Birth Girdles Devotions for Women in “Travell of Childe", Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Berlin: De Gruyer, 2024) 38.

    Section shown in images 5 to 5

    • Title: Inscription refering to the Virgin Mary
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription; added in the 17th or 18th century.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 1r Diua faio [?] studiis Virgo Maria meis

    Section shown in images 6 to 6

    • Title: Suffrage to St Anthony
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): The end of the text is much faded.; Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 1v Oracio beati Antonij
      Incipit: 1v O beate antoni pastor inclite qui
      Explicit: 1v Deus qui concedis obtentu beati antonii confessoris [...]
    • Bibliography:
      Rudy (2015), pp. 165-167

    Section shown in images 7 to 7

    • Title: Suffrage to St Thomas the Apostle
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 2r [O] Thomas didime per Christum quem meruisti tangere te precibus rogamus altissonis sucurre nobis miseris ne dampnemur cum impijs in aduentu iudicis
      Explicit: 2r Da nobis quesumus domine beati apostoli tui thome sollempnitatibus gloriari ut eius semper et patrociniis subleveamur et fidem congrua deuotionis fectemur. Per Christum dominum nostrum

    Section shown in images 8 to 8

    • Title: Suffrage to St Eustace
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 2v O eustachij genere nobilis quem probauit fortuna labilis
      Explicit: 2v Deus qui eustachium gloriosum martirem tuum in tentacionibus probasti et probatum coronasti ipsius sociorum que eius meritis et precibus in omni tribulatione tuum nobis presta auxilium et sempiterne consolationis interminabile gaudium Per dominum nostrum etcaetera

    Section shown in images 9 to 20

    • Title: Calendar
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): St Cuthbert ("Cuthberti") has been added to the Calendar (f. 7r) in a (?) 16th- or 17th-century hand.

    Section shown in images 21 to 21

    • Title: Suffrage to St Ninian
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 9r Stirps regalis que vita floruit prolem profer regem quem docuit . Patrum pater patronum genuit Ninianum mundus quo claruit
      Explicit: 9r [D]eus qui populos pictorum et britonum per doctrinam sancti niniani episcopi et confessoris tui ad noticiam fidei conuertisti concede propicius vt cuius erudicione veritatis tue lucius perfundimur eius intercessione celestis patriam vite gaudia consequamur . Per Christum dominum etcaetera

    Section shown in images 22 to 33

    • Title: The Fifteen Oes
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 10r Incipiunt quindecim orationes ad Christum
      Incipit: 10r O Jhesu Christe eterna dulcedo te amancium iubilus excedens omne gaudium et omne desiderium salus et amator peccatorum vere penitentium qui delicias tuas testatus es esse cum filijs hominum
      Explicit: 15r Ita laudabilis et post huius uite terminum te merear laudare cum omnibus sanctis tuis ineternum . Amen . Pater noster .

    Section shown in images 33 to 33

    • Title: Suffrage to St Philip
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 15r [T]anto tempore vobiscum sum et non cognouistis me philippe philippe qui vidit me vidit et patrem meum . Gauuisi sunt discipuli domini . Viso domino
      Explicit: 15r [D]eus qui nos anima appostolorum tuorum philippi et iacobi solempnitate letificas presta quesumus vt quorum gaudemus meritis instruamur exemplis Per Christum dominum nostrum Amen

    Section shown in images 34 to 36

    • Title: Suffrage to the Trinity
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): This prayer is joint with the next prayer.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 16r Memoria de sancte trinitate
      Incipit: 16r Domine deus omnipotens pater et filius et spiritus sanctus N. uictoriam contra omnes inimicos nostros ut non resistere michi possuit nocere nec contra dicere sed dignatur uirtus eorum et consilium in bonum
      Explicit: 16v Christus in se confidentes saluat . Christus vincit . Christus regnat . Christus imperat . sic Christus imperare dignetur me esse triumphatorem omnium aduersariorum meorum ut non timebo quid faciat michi homo . psalmus . Deus in nomine tue saluum me . etcaetera . Deus misereatur nostri et benedicat . Kyrieleyson . Christeleyson . Christeleyson . Domine exaudi . Et clamor Oremus.

    Section shown in images 36 to 37

    • Title: Prayer to Christ for salvation
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): This prayer is joint with the previous prayer.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 16v Libera me domine ihesu Christe fili dei vnu qui in cruce suspensus fuisti et lancea perforari latus tuum permisisti et de precioso sanguine tuo redemisti
      Explicit: 17r Exaudi me domine sicut exaudisti mariam magdalenam peccatricem et dimissa sunt ei peccata multa quoniam dilexit multum libera me domine N. famulum tuum ab omni malo presenti preterito et futuro et exaudi . me domine in omnibus peticionibus meis et de necessitatibus meis et periculis meis libera me domine qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vnus et regnas deus per omnia secula seculorum . Amen. De profundis clamaui ad te domine utsupra.

    Section shown in images 38 to 40

    • Title: Suffrage to St John the Baptist
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 18r Memoria de sancto iohanne baptista
      Incipit: 18r Gaude iohannes baptista . qui in ventris clausus cista . Congaudebas domino .
      Explicit: 18v Beata iohannes baptiste Christi precursor atque preco redemptoris nostri porrige nobis manum misericordie tue et auxiliare nobis in omnibus necessitatibus nostris et angustijs et esto iugiter pius intercessor apud altissimi iudicis clementiam quatinus tuis meritis nos liberate dignetur ab omni tribulatione et augustia periculo et peccatorum tenebris eripiat et ad lucem celestis gaudij peducat Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen .

    Section shown in images 41 to 41

    • Title: Suffrage to St Bartholomew
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 19r [B]artholomeus celi cidus aureum milies supra solis iubar radians erige merites nostras polo turbidas egras que et nostras sana confidencias In omnem terram etcaetera
      Explicit: 19r [O]mnipotens sempiterne deus qui huius dieei veneranda sanctam que leticiam in beati bartholomee apostoli tui festiuitate tribuisti da ecclesie tue quesumus et amare quod credidit et predicare quod docuit Per Christum dominum nostrum Amen

    Section shown in images 42 to 44

    • Title: Suffrage to St Thomas Becket
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 20r Memoria de sancto thome cantuariensis
      Incipit: 20r Gaude lux londoniarum thoma tutor animarum dei prouidentia . Natus matris matris die . sequens uitam uere me speciali gratia
      Explicit: 20v Deus qui beatum thomam martirem tuum atque pontificem die martis pro ecclesia tua uarijs tribulationibus oppressum gloria et honore coronasti fac nos quesumus suis meritis et precibus sic huius uite seculi miserias transire et ad celi gaudia possimus peruenire Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen .

    Section shown in images 44 to 45

    • Title: Suffrage to St Matthew
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 20v-21r [B]eati eritis cum vos oderunt homines et cum seperauerint vos et exprobrauerunt et eiecerint nomine vestrum tanquam malum propter filium homines gaudete exultate ecce enim merces vestra multa est in celo . In omnem .
      Explicit: 21r [D]eus qui beatum matheam apostolorum tuorum collegio sociasti tribue quesumus ut eius interuentione tue circa nos pietatis semper viscera lentiamur . Per Christum .

    Section shown in images 46 to 48

    • Title: Suffrage to St George
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 22r Memoria de sancto georgionam
      Incipit: 22r Georgi martir inclite te decet laus et gloria predotatum milicia per quem puella regia existent in tristicia coram dracone pessimo te rogans corde intimo saluata est et animo se reddidit altissimo cum multi fidelibus fac ergo sic ut ciuibus tu nos iungas celestibus nostris ablutis sordibus ut simul cum leticia tecum sumus in gloria nostraque reddant labia laudes Christo cum gratia .
      Explicit: 22v Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui deprecantium uoces benigne exaudis maiestatem tuam supplices exoramus ut sicut in honore beati et gloriosi martiris tui georgij draconem a puella superari voluisti isti ita eiusdem intercessione hostes nostros uisibiles et inuisiblies ne nocere nobis valeant concedere digneris . Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen .

    Section shown in images 48 to 48

    • Title: Suffrage to St Matthew
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 22v [M]athee sancte bine pollens mun[ire] sedulis ihesum inter pella questibus vt nos in mundi gubernet turbinibus ne post eternus absorbiat interitus In omnem terram exiuit sonus etcaetera
      Explicit: 22v da nobis quesumus omnipotens deus vt beati apostoli tui mathei et Euangeliste veneranda solempnitas et deuotionem nobis augiat et salutem Per Christum dominum nostrum

    Section shown in images 49 to 49

    • Title: Suffrage to St Simon and St Jude
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 23r [B]eate symon et thadee inclite cernite nostas [sic] gemitus cum fletibus quique per lapsum meruimus baratrum per vos celorum meruimur aditum Annunciauerunt opera dei et facta eius intellexerunt
      Explicit: 23r Oremus - [D]eus qui nos per beatos apostolos tuos symonem et iudam ad agnissionem tui nominis venire tribuisti da nobis eorum gloriam sempiternam et proficiendo celeberare et ciliberando proficere Per Christum dominum nostrum. Amen

    Section shown in images 50 to 52

    • Title: Suffrage to St Christopher
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 24r Memoria de sancto Christofero
      Incipit: 24r Sancte Christofore martir ihesu Christe qui pro eius nomine penas pertulisti opem confer miseris atque mundo tristi qui celestis gloria regna meruisti Christofori sancti speciam quicumque tuertur illo nempe die nullo languore tenetur martir Christofore pro saluatoris honore fac nos mente fore dignos deitatis amore promisso Christi quiaque petis obtinuisti da populo tristi bonaque moriendo petisti confer solamen et mentis tolle grauamen iudicis examen fac mite sit omnibus amen
      Explicit: 24v Concede quesumus omnipotens et misericors deus ut qui beati Christofori martiris tui memoriam agimus eius pijs meritis et intercessionibus a morte subitanea peste fame timore pauperitate et ab omnibus insidijs inimicorum nostrorum liberemur in terris per te ihesu Christe saluator mundi quem Christoforus meruit in humeris suis portare . Qui viuis et regnas deus per omnia secula seculorum . Amen .

    Section shown in images 52 to 53

    • Title: Suffrage to St Hugh of Lincoln [Avalon]
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 24v Confessor domini Hugo Astantem plebem corrobora sancta intercessione vt qui victiorum pondee premimor beatitudinis tue gloria subleuemur et te duce eterna premia consequamur Amauit eum dominus et ornauit eum stola gloria induit eum
      Explicit: 24v-25r Oracio - Deus qui beatum hugonem confessorem atque pontificem eminentia meritorum et claritate signorum eccelenter ornasti concede propicius vt eius exempla nos provocent et virtutes illustrent . Per Christum dominum nostrum Amen . Pater noster .

    Section shown in images 54 to 56

    • Title: Suffrage to St Anne
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 26r Memoria de sancta anna matris marie
      Incipit: 26r Gaude felix anna que concepisti prolemque erat paritura Christum saluatorem
      Explicit: 26r-26v Domine ihesu Christe qui beate anne tantam gratiam donare dignatus es ut uirginem maria matrem tuam in vtero suo portare mereretur da quesumus ut per intercessionem matris ac dilectissime filie marie matris tue ut per illam sacratissimam intercessionem ab omni periculo corporis et anime nos defendas et presentis uite salutem conferas et ad lucem celestis gaudij perducat . Per Christum .

    Section shown in images 56 to 57

    • Title: Suffrage to St Cuthbert
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 26v [O] cuthberte quam aperte fulgit tua gracia nobis ferte nam nos parte speramus subsidia Tu de ferte pestem verte mortis a familia Vt nos parte vite certe senciamus gaudia . Ora pro nobis beate cuthberte Ut digni etcaetera
      Explicit: 26v-27r Oracio - Deus qui graciam tuam beate cuthberti confessoris tui atque pontificis mirabiliter revellare dignatus es da quesumus vt omnes eius sibi deuoti meritis intercessionibus a pestilencia a morte subitania et ab omni malo misericorditer liberenter per Christum dominum nostrum Amen

    Section shown in images 58 to 60

    • Title: Suffrage to St Katherine
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 28r Memoria de sancta katherina
      Incipit: 28r Gaude uirgo katherina qua doctoris lex diuina traxit ab erroribus
      Explicit: 28r-28v Deus qui dedisti legem moysi in summitate montis synai et in eodem loco per sanctos angelos corpus beate katherine uirginis et martiris tue mirabiliter collocasti presta quesumus ut eius meritis et intercessione ad montem qui Christus est ualeamus peruenire Per Christum dominum nostrum .

    Section shown in images 61 to 61

    • Title: Suffrage to St James the Great
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 29r [O] lux et decus hyspanie sanctissime iacobe apostole qui inter apostolos primatum tenes primus eorum martirio laureatus
      Explicit: 29r [P]rotector in te sperancium deus familiam tuam propicius iacobum a cunctis earum aduersitatibus potentie tue brachio defende Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen .

    Section shown in images 62 to 64

    • Title: Suffrage to St Mary Magdalen
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 30r Memoria de sancta maria magdalena
      Incipit: 30r Gaude pia magdalena spes salutis uite uena lapsorum fiducia
      Explicit: 30v Gaude qui beata marie magdalene penitenciam ita tibi placitam gratamque fecisti ut non solum peccata dimitteres ueram eciam singulari tui amoris gratia illius intima perlustrares da nobis quesumus ita digne flere mala que commisimus ut et sanctam indulgentiam consequi ualeamus et in omnibus petitionibus propiciationis tue clemenciam senciamus . Per Christum .

    Section shown in images 65 to 65

    • Title: Suffrage to St James the Less
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand. This suffrage is also found in a book of hours printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1494 (see Edgar Hoskins, Horae Mariae Virginis or Sarum and York Primers with Kindred Books and Primers of the Reformed Roman Use (London: Longmans and Green, 1901), p. 113).
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 31r [O] candor perpetue pure castitatis bona operarie doctor veritatis
      Explicit: 31r [D]eus qui iustum apostolum tuum iacobum perpetue castitatis flore candidatum ecclesie tue primum episcopum et tui operis vicarium preesse voluisti: concede quesumus vt ita ipse aperte sit pro nobis perpetuus intecessor: sicut tui mysterij extitit primus executor et doctor . Per Christum nostrum Amen

    Section shown in images 66 to 68

    • Title: Suffrage to St Barbara
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 32r Memoria de sancta barbara veirgina
      Incipit: 32r Gaude barbara regina summa pollens in doctrina angeli misterio
      Explicit: 32r-32v Omnipotens sempiterne deus trina et vna inseperabilisque maiestas qui sanctissimam uirginem et martirem tuam barbaram in plena tui agnitione super ceteras illustrare dignetas es pretende ineffabilem misericordiam tuam nobis et largire ita deuotum eidem exhibere famulatatum ut diuinas gracias suscipiamus quas omnibus ipsam colentibus a te promeruit specialiter impetrare . Per Christum dominum nostrum .

    Section shown in images 68 to 69

    • Title: Suffrage to St Armagil of Brittany
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Added by a 15th-century hand.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 32v Sancte dei preciose . aduocate gloriose confessor Armagile
      Explicit: 33r Deus qui beatum Armigilum confessorem tuum mirabilibus et in muneris decorasti miraculis concede propicius : vt nos ab omni adversitate mentis et corporis semper liberemur supplicacionem que nostram ac audicionem votiuam consequi meriamur et feliciter ad eterne beatitudinis consorcium eius precibus perducamur Per Christum dominum nostrum Amen

    Section shown in images 70 to 72

    • Title: Suffrage to St Margaret
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 34r Memoria de sancta margarita uirgina
      Incipit: 34r Gaude uirgo margareta que nutrices gregem letaminabas ad pascua
      Explicit: 34r-34v Deprecationem nostram quesumus domine benignus intende precesque nostras clementer exaudi atque misericordiam tuam nobis largire ut intercessione beate margarete uirginis tue exquacunque necessitate ad te clamauerimus almiflua consolationis tue beneficia consequamur . Per Christum .

    Section shown in images 74 to 145

    • Title: The Hours of the Virgin with memoriae at Lauds
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 36r Incipiunt hore beate marie uirginis
      Incipit: 36r Domine labia mea aperies . Et os meum annunciabit laudem tuam .
      Explicit: 71r Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui gloriose uirginis et matris marie corpus et animam ut dignum filij tui habitaculum effici mereretur spiritu sancto cooperante mirabiliter preparasti da ut cuius commemoratione lecamur eius pia intercessione ab instantibus malis et a morte perpetua liberemur . Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen .

    Section shown in images 145 to 152

    • Title: The hymn Ave virgo virginum stella matutina (in the form of an exposition on the Salve regina)
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 71r Has uideas laudes . Qui es sacra uirgine gaudes . Et uenerando piam . Studeas laudare mariam . uirginis intacte . cum veneris ante figuram . Pretereundo caue ne taceatur aue . Inuenies veniam sit salutando mariam . Salue
      Incipit: 71r Salue uirgo uirginum stella matutina . Sordidorum criminum uera medicina Consolatrix hominum qui sunt in ruina . Precibus precancium mater te inclina .
      Explicit: 74v Deus qui de beate marie uirginis utero uerbum tuum angelo nunciante carnem suscipere uoluisti . Presta supplicibus tuis ut qui uere eam dei genitricem credimus eius apud te intercessionibus adiuuemur . Per Christum dominum nostrum Amen.

    Section shown in images 152 to 159

    • Title: O Intemerata
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 74v Ad beatam uirginem mariam .
      Incipit: 75r O Intemerata et in eternum benedicta singularis atque in comparabilis uirgo dei genitrix maria gratissimum dei templum spiritus sancti
      Explicit: 77r Qui cum patre et filio coeternus et consubstancialis cum eis et in eis viuit et regnat omnipotens deus

    Section shown in images 157 to 159

    • Title: Obsecro te
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 75r Obsecro te domina sancta maria mater dei pietate plenissima summi regis
      Explicit: 78r Et exaudi me dulcissima maria mater dei et misericordie Amen .

    Section shown in images 159 to 162

    • Title: The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary (with indulgence)
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 78r Quicumque heb septem gaudia in honre beate marie uirginis semel in die dixerit .C. dies indulgenciarum obtinebit a domino papa clemente qui hec septem gaudia proprio stilo composuit.
      Incipit: 78r Uirgo templum trinitatis deus summe bonitatis et misericordie
      Explicit: 79v O maria tota munda a peccatis nos emunda per hec septem gaudia . Et nos fecunda . et duc tecum ad iocunda paradysi gloria . Amen . Oratio.

    Section shown in images 163 to 164

    • Title: Salutations to the wounds of the Crown of Thorns and the Five Wounds
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): The sequence of prayers is imperfect both at the beginning and end.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 80r cruentatum exemplar humilium . O corona preciosa quam cruoris tinxit rosa plasmatoris omnium . per te fiat speciosa mens humana mens spinosa declinans in uicium .
      Explicit: 80v Ad vulnus sinistri pedis . Veni pedis perforati aui vulnus in quo pati deus homo voluit . Comparandum es

    Section shown in images 165 to 165

    • Title: Prayer to the Virgin Mary
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 81r De precor sanctissima maria mater dei pietate plenissima summi regis filia mater gloriosissima mater
      Explicit: 81r Et post mortem cum sanctis et eelectis suis uitam eternam ac omnibus fidelibus viuis et defunctis uitam et requiem sempiternam . Amen.

    Section shown in images 165 to 166

    • Title: Prayer to Christ on the Cross
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 81r Ad ymaginem Christi crucifixi .
      Incipit: 81v Omnibus consideratis paradysus uoluptatis es ihesu pijssime . in te fons paternitatis omnis fructus suauitatis plantauit plenissime . passionis tue fructus et cruoris tui fluctus defluens largissime finem fecit nostri luctus per hunc infernus destructus gemit amarissime

    Section shown in images 166 to 166

    • Title: Prayer to the Cross
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 81v Ad Crucem Christi
      Incipit: 81v Triumphale lignum crucis tu seductos nos reducis ad superna gaudia portas pandis uere lucis fauces claudis hostis crucis . diuina potencia . es adoro propter illum qui per te gregem pusillum reduxit in patria . confringens per hoc vexillum orthi uectes et sigillum signans infernalia .

    Section shown in images 166 to 167

    • Title: Prayer to the Wounded Head of Christ
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 81v Ad capud Christi
      Incipit: Ave caput inclinatum despectiue coronatum spinis infidelium multis locis perforatum circumquaque cruentatum per te sumus liberati nos quos vmbra tenuit Dulce vulnus dulcis clauus et cruoris dulcis fauus per istud efferbuit Per te regat ignanus . emendetur homo prauus . in te qui spem habuit .

    Section shown in images 167 to 168

    • Title: Prayer to St John the Evangelist
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 82r Ad sanctam iohannem ewangelistam
      Incipit: 82v Iohannes euuangelista tu sacram sacrista in quo deus iacuit . Me mundus fallit sophista per te michi dentur ista que supra meus uoluit Obsecro te per hunc flectum per dolorem et per metum quo cor tuum tremuit. Dum uideres deum spretum ut me ducas adhuc tecum quem Christus eripuit . Amen . Versus . Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem . mortem autem crucis . Versus Ora pro nobis sancta dei genitur . Ut digni efficiamur promissione Christi . Versus . Valde honorandus est beatus Iohannes euuangelista . qui supra pectus domini in cena recubuit . Domine exaudi . Oremus .

    Section shown in images 168 to 168

    • Title: Prayer to God invoking the Passion
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 82v Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui vnigenitum filium tuum dominum nostrum ihesum Christum crucem coronam spineam et quinque vulnera subire uoluisti ut inimici a nobis expelleres potestatem qui et in cruce pendens mariam matrem suam uirginem uirgini commendauit presta quesumus ut omnes qui eius passionem ueneramur a peccatorum nostrorum nexibus eorum precibus liberemur . Per Christum

    Section shown in images 168 to 171

    • Title: Prayer invoking the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 82v-83r Oratio uenerabilis bede presbiteri de septem verbis Christi in cruce pendentis quam creatorem quicunque cotidie deuote dixerit flexis genubus nec dyabolus nec malus homo ei nocere pote nec sine confessione morietur et per tringinta dies aute obitum suum uidebit gloriosam uirginem mariam in auxilium sibi preparatam .
      Incipit: 83r Domine ihesu Christe qui septem uerba die ultimo uite tue in cruce pendens dixisti ut semper illa sacratissima uerba in memoria habere mus
      Explicit: 84r Quod significat labores et dolores quos pro nobis miseris suscepisti iam fuisti fac ut audire merear illam dulcissimam vocem tuam dicentem michi veni amica mea quia iam disposui peticiones tuas consummari veni merum ut sedeas cum angelis meis sanctis in rengo meo epulari iocundari et commorari per in finita secula seculorum Amen.

    Section shown in images 171 to 171

    • Title: Prayer on the Passion
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 84r Precor te pijssime domine Ihesu Christe propter illam caritatem qua tu rex celestis pendebas in cruce cum deifica caritate
      Explicit: 84v ut sis michi placabilis super multitudinem peccatorum meorum faciam ultimo uite mee bonum et sanctum finem nec non gloriosam beatamque resurrectionem propter tuam misericordiam michi tribuere digneris . Amen .

    Section shown in images 172 to 173

    • Title: Salutations to Christ
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 84v Ave domine ihesu Christe uerbum patris filius uirginis agnus dei salus mundi hostia sacra uerbum caro fons pietatis .
      Explicit: 85r Aue uerum corpus domini nostri ihesu Christi natum de maria uirgine uere passum immolatum in cruce pro homine Cuius latus perforatum uero fluxit sanguine esto nobis pregustatum mortis in examine . O dulcis O piet . O ihesu fili marie . miserere nostri . Amen .

    Section shown in images 173 to 173

    • Title: Ave caro Christi cara
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 85r Oratio .
      Incipit: 85r Ave caro Christi cara immolata crucis ara pro redemptis hostia . morte tua nos amara fac redemptos luce clara tecum frui gloria Amen.

    Section shown in images 173 to 174

    • Title: Anima Christi
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 85r-85v Anima Christi sanctifica me. corpus Christi salua me sanguis Christi inebria aqua lateris Christi laua me passio Christi conforta me mors Christi viuifica me O bone ihesu exaudi me ne permittas me seperari a te ab hoste maligno defende me in hora mortis uoca me et pone me iuxta te ut cum angelis laudem te in secula seculorum . amen .

    Section shown in images 174 to 174

    • Title: Prayer for the Elevation (with indulgence)
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 85v Omnibus confessis et conteritus hanc oracionem dicentibus inter eleuacionem corpus Christi et tercium agnus dei dominus papa bonifacius concessit duo milia annorum indulgenciarum ad supplantationem philippi regis francie
      Incipit: 85v Domine ihesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem et preciosissimum sanguinem tuum de gloriose uirginis marie utero assumpsisti et eundem sanguinem de sacratissimo latere tuo in ara crucis pro salute nostra effudisti et in hac gloriosa carne a mortuis resurrexisti . et ad celos ascendisti et iterum venturus es iudicare viuos et mortuos in eadem carne libera me per hoc sacrosanctum corpus tuum quod modo tractatur in altari in omnibus in mundicijs mentis et corporis et ab vniuersis malis periculis presentibus preteritis et futuris . amen .

    Section shown in images 176 to 187

    • Title: The Seven Penitential Psalms
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 87r Incipiunt septem psalmi penitenciales
      Incipit: 87r Antiphona . Ne reminiscaris . Psalmus . Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me neque in ira tua corupias me.
      Explicit: 92r Et perdes omnes qui tribulant animam meam quam ego seruus tuus sum. Gloria patri. Antiphona Ne reminiscaris domine delicta nostra uel parentum meorum neque vindictam sumas de peccatis nostris. Antiphona. Parce domine

    Section shown in images 188 to 190

    • Title: The Fifteen Gradual Psalms
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): The first twelve of the Fifteen Gradual Psalms are listed only by their opening verses; the final three psalms (Psalm 131; Psalm 132; and Psalm 133) are given in full.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 92v Ad dominum cum tribularer utsupra. psalmus
      Explicit: 93v Benedicat tibi dominus ex syon qui fecit celum et terram. Gloria patri . Antiphona . Parce domine populo tuo quem redemisti precioso sanguine tuo et ne in eternum irasceris nobis

    Section shown in images 190 to 198

    • Title: Litany of Saints
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 93v Kyrieleyson . Christeleyson . Kyrieleyson . Christe audi nos . Pater de celis deus miserere nobis . Fili redemptor mundi deus miserere nobis . Spiritus sancte deus miserere nobis. Sancta trinitas vnus deus. Miserere nobis.
      Explicit: 97v et inuisibiles remoue pestem et famen en inmundiciam repelle amicis et inimicis nostris caritatemque perfectam atque infirmis sanitatem largire et omnibus fidelibus viuis ac defunctis in terra viuencium uitam et requiem eternam concede . Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen .

    Section shown in images 200 to 230

    • Title: Office of the Dead
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 99r Incipiunt uigilie mortuorum
      Incipit: 99r Antiphona . Placebo. Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus uocem orationis mee
      Explicit: 113v Fidelium deus omnium conditor. ut supra.

    Section shown in images 232 to 250

    • Title: Commendation of the Souls
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 115r Incipiunt commendationes animarum
      Incipit: 115r Beati immaculati in uia qui ambulant in lege domini
      Explicit: 123v et electos tuos resuscitate gloria manifeste contemplationis tue perpetuo sacientur. Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen.

    Section shown in images 252 to 260

    • Title: The Ten Psalms of the Passion
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 125r Psalmi de passione Christi
      Incipit: 125r Deus deus meus respice in me quare me deliquisti longe a salute mea uerba delictorum meorum
      Explicit: 128v et electos tuos resuscitate gloria manifeste contemplationis tue perpetuo sacientur. Per Christum dominum nostrum . Amen.

    Section shown in images 261 to 262

    • Title: Preface to the Psalter of St Jerome
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 129r Beatus uero ieronimus in hoc modo psalterium istud disposuit sicut angelus domini docuit per spiritum sanctum porro propter hoc abbreuiatum est quod hij qui sollicitudinem huius seculi habent uel homines qui in infirmitatibus iacet aut qui iter longinquum agunt . seu qui naufragio nauigant aut qui bellum commissuri sunt contra hostes nostros seu qui militant contra inuidiam dyabolorum aut qui uotum uouit deo cantare cotidie integrum psalterium et non possunt uel qui ieiunant et ieiunio fortiter debilitanter et qui festa uel solempnia non custodiunt et minime possunt cantare magnum psalterium et qui animas suas saluas volunt facere secundum misericordiam dei et uitam eternam uolunt habere assidue cantent hoc psalterium et possidebunt regnum eternum. Amen. Oratio.
      Incipit: 129r Suscipe digneris domine deus omnipotens istos salmos consecratos
      Explicit: 129v Concede queso domine ihesus Christe ut isti psalmi nobis omnibus proficiant ad salutem et ueram penitenciam faciendam omniumque peccatorum nostrorum remissionem impetrandam prestante domino nostro ihesu Christo qui viuis et regnas deus per omnia secula seculorum . Amen.

    Section shown in images 264 to 281

    • Title: The Psalter of St Jerome
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 131r Incipit psalterium beati ieronimi
      Incipit: 131r Uerba mea auribus percipe domine intellige clamorem meum
      Explicit: 139r et remedium anime mee omni delictorum meorum ueniam et viuis et defunctis ad uitam proficiat sempiternam Amen.

    Section shown in images 281 to 281

    • Title: Suffrage for St Roch
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Full transcription; added in the 15th century.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 139r Ora pro nobis beate Roche . vt mereamur preseruari a peste epedimie
      Explicit: 139r Oracio. Deus qui beate Rocho per angelum tuum tabulam eidem afferentem promisisti vt qui ipsem pie inuocauerit A nullo pestis cruciata lederetur presta quesumus vt qui eius memoriam agimus meritis ipsius a mortifera peste corporis et anime liberemur per dominum

    Section shown in images 282 to 283

    • Title: Liturgical ritual with twelve candels and medical recipe that form a remedy against epilepsy
    • Language(s): Middle English with a Latin heading
    • Note(s): Rand (2006) considers the liturgical ritual and medical recipe as two separate items.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 139v Pro Morbo caduco
      Incipit: 139v Take xij candills of the lengthe of þe cheyfe joynt of þe hand and the xiij candill as lang as iij of the sayd xij and gar syng on messe of the holy gost and gar leyght the sayd xiij candills and apun euery candill wryhte on name and apvn the lange candill Jhesus
      Explicit: 140r And trust in the grace of god and thys medicine wherthrughe þer has mony creatures receveyth helth
    • Bibliography:
      Müller (1929), p. 107
      Rand (2006), p. 47

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