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Details for manuscript 690

Manuscript №
690
Location
Norwich
Collection
Castle Museum
Reference
158.926/4f
Headnote
Norwich hours
Estimated date of production
s.xiv (1)
Folia
158?
Place of production
Produced for
woman patron
Notes
A-N prayers address a 'pecheresse'; apparently intended for a woman; Obit for 'Katerine Bakon' from 1377 added later; contents and foliation uncertain
Sources for this record
Dean, Ruth J., and Maureen B. M. Boulton. Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts. London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999.
Scott-Stokes, Charity. Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England: Selected Texts (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006), p. 32.

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text Title Language Start folio (ordinal) End folio (ordinal) Total pages
1 Book of hours Latin 1r (1) 9v (18) 18.0
2 Dean no. 967 French 10r (19) 10v (20) 2.0
3 Book of hours Latin 11r (21) 144v (288) 268.0
4 Prayer to Jesus and the Virgin (Dean no. 758) French 145r (289) 149v (298) 10.0
5 Prose prayer (Dean no. 922) French 150r (299) 151v (302) 4.0
6 Two prose prayers for a woman (Dean no. 946) French 152v (304) 154r (307) 3.5
7 A Prose Prayer to St. Catherine (Dean no. 929) French 154r (307) 155v (310) 2.83
8 Rubrics to Latin prayers (Dean no. 985) French 155v (310) 155v (310) 0.33
9 Rubrics to Latin prayers (Dean no. 985) French 157r (313) 157r (313) 0.5
10 Latin prayers, including 'Deprecor sancta Maria' etc Latin 155v (310) 157v (314) 3.83

Owners of this manuscript

Owners
Owner number Owner Period Gender Type Source
1 woman patron [?] s. xiv (1) woman http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001101724Scott-Stokes, Charity. Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England: Selected Texts (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006), p. 32.