Details for manuscript 255

Manuscript №: 255
Location: Downside (Som.)
Collection: Abbey Libr.
Reference: 26533
Headnote: Psalter-Hours
Estimated date of production: s.xiv (in)
Folia: 2+271+2
Place of production: East Anglia
Produced for
Notes: languages uncertain and based on Dean; "probably made for use somwhere in the region of East Anglia, perhaps Suffolk" (84); "On 9 August there is an added obit in the Calendar of one "Isabelle filie Iohannes de Lindhurst uxoris Henrici de Harn hulle" . .may well refer to the original owner of the book" (94).
Sources for this record: Michael, Michael A., "The Harnhulle psalter-hours: an early fourteenth-century English illuminated manuscript at Downside Abbey." Journal of the British Archaeological Association 134 (1981).

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text	Title	Language	Start folio (ordinal)	End folio (ordinal)	Total pages
1	Hours of the Virgin	Latin	1r (1)	7r (13)	13.0
2	Prayer by the joys of the Virgin (Dean no. 769)	French	7v (14)	8r (15)	2.0
3	Hours of the Virgin	Latin	8v (16)	24v (48)	33.0
4	Psalter, Canticles and Litany	Latin	25r (49)	254v (508)	460.0
5	Office of the Dead	Latin	255r (509)	270r (539)	31.0
6	Prayer for mercy (Dean no. 888)	French	270v (540)	270v (540)	1.0

Owners
Owner number	Owner	Period	Gender	Type	Source
1	Isabelle de Harnhulle	s.xiv (in)	Woman	Lay	Michael, Michael A., "The Harnhulle psalter-hours: an early fourteenth-century English illuminated manuscript at Downside Abbey." Journal of the British Archaeological Association 134 (1981).