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Details for manuscript 379

Manuscript №: 379
Location: London
Collection: British Library
Reference: Add. 43473
Headnote: HOURS, etc.
Estimated date of production: s.xv (in)
Folia: ii+130
Place of production
Produced for
Notes: foliation, tracts and languages are based on catalogue description and are therefore approximate; "Added in the lower margin of each page in the Calendar (ff. I-6b) are I5th-cent. notes in English on the significance of thunder in the various months. Also added in the Calendar are the following obits:-(a) 20 jan., 'Obitus Thome Grene militis domini de Norton [Green's Norton, co. Northt.] qui obiit anno domini mcccel... [end illegible]', f. 1;-(b) 3 Feb., 'Obitus Ricardi Midilton uenerabilis annigeri', f. 1b;- (c) 10 Sept., 'Obitus Thome Grene militis dominus de Norton qui obiit anno domini millesimo cccclxiio', f. 5. Matilda, daughter of Sir John Throgmorton and widow of (c), married (b) as her second husband; (a) presumably refers to (c)'s father, who died in 1457-1458, see G. Baker, Hist. of Northampton, i, 1822-1830, P. 32. A note at f. 97b records the birth on 24 Mar. 1561 (cf. the erased entry in the calendar for that day) at Wavendon, co. Bucks., where the Green family owned lands, of Mary, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Fitzhugh, afterw. wife of William Astrey, cf. V.C.H., Bucks., iii, P. 346; iV, Pp. 492, 495. The name of another member of the Fitzhugh family is scribbled in a 16th-cent. hand in the lower margin of f. 106. At the foot of f. 129b is a note by John Symonds Breedon (d. 1838), of Bere Court, Pangboume, co. Berks, recording his discovery of the MS. in a drawer in the china closet there, and adding that it was supposed to have been in the house since the times of Hugh Faringdon, last Abbot of Reading (executed 1539); this latter statement is probably no more than an inference from the fact that Bere Court was used as a country house by the Abbots of Reading (V.C.H., Berks, iii, P. 303)." Includes some A-N rubrics to Latin prayers (Dean no. 985)
Sources for this record: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002056370; https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200397/BibliographicResource_3000126256035.html

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text	Title	Language	Start folio (ordinal)	End folio (ordinal)	Total pages
1	ff. 1-6b Calendars: Calendar in Sarum Hours: early 15th cent.: Lat.	Latin	1r (1)	6v (12)	12.0
2	Hours?	Latin	7r (13)	35r (69)	57.0
3	f. 35b Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Prayer on the Five joys of: 15th-16th cent.: Lat.	Latin	35v (70)	35v (70)	0.5
4	f. 35b Prayers: Prayer on the Five Joys of the Virgin: 15th-16th centt.: Lat.	Latin	35v (70)	47r (93)	23.0
5	Meteorology: Devotion against thunderstorms: 15th cent.	Latin	47r (93)	101r (201)	108.5
6	ff. 101-103b Gregory I; Pope; the Great: Prayer attributed to: 15th cent.: Lat.	Latin	101v (202)	103v (206)	5.0
7	ff. 101-129b passim Prayers: Prayers in Sarum Hours: early 15th cent.: Lat. and Fr.	Latin	104r (207)	115v (230)	24.0
8	f. 116 Saint Edmund Rich,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Prayer to St John Evangelist: 15th cent.: Lat.	Latin	116r (231)	116v (232)	2.0
9	Saint Anselm,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Litany of the Virgin, attributed to: 15th cent.: Lat.	Latin	117v (234)	120v (240)	7.0
10	ff. 121-122 Hymns: Hymns to the Virgin: 15th cent.	Latin	121r (241)	122r (243)	3.0
11	Prayers: Prayers in Sarum Hours: early 15th cent.:	Latin	122v (244)	126r (251)	8.0
12	A short prayer for salvation (Dean no. 781) and a rubric for absolution (Dean no. 951)	French	126v (252)	127r (253)	2.0
13	Seven Aves (Dean no. 893)	French	128v (256)	129v (258)	3.0
14	ff. 128b-130b Saint Francis,; of Assisi: Salutation of Christ attrib. to: 15th cent.: Fr.: Imperf.	French	130r (259)	130v (260)	2.0

Owners of this manuscript

Owners
Owner number	Owner	Period	Gender	Type	Source
1	Family of Sir Thomas Green, of Green's Norton	s.xv (med)	man	lay	http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002056370
2	Family of Richard Midilton, of Greens-Norton	s.xv (ex)	man	lay	http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002056370