Beinecke MS 109                                                 Flanders [?], s. XV^^2
Hours, use of Sarum [?]

          This manuscript has nearly the same contents as Beinecke MS 310
     and London, Dulwich College MS 25 (Ker, MMBL, v. 1, pp. 46-48).

     1. f. ii recto-verso    Catalogue of contents, in Latin, in a later
     cursive hand.

     2. ff. 1r-26v    Hours of the Virgin, probably use of Sarum, but now
     lacking the beginning of Matins, all of Terce, and the end of Sext
     through to the Nunc dimittis of Compline. After Lauds, suffrages to the
     Holy Spirit, the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, Andrew, Lawrence,
     Stephen, Thomas of Canterbury, Nicolas, Mary Magdalen, Catharine,
     Margaret, All Saints and for peace; Short Hours of the Cross worked in;
     Compline followed by the Salve Regina with its set of 7 versicles,
     Virgo mater ecclesie... and its prayer, Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui
     gloriose uirginis et matris marie...[HE 62-63]; [G]aude uirgo mater
     christi...Oremus. [D]eus qui beatam uirginem mariam in conspectu
	[sic] et partu...[HE 63-64]; [G]aude flore uirginali...[HE 64-65]
	Oremus. [O] clementissime domine ihesu christe pro tua infinita
	pietatis misericordia.... Leaves at the end of Lauds (f. 16v), Prime
	(f. 20v) and the Office itself (f. 27r-v) ruled, but blank

     3. ff. 28r-34r    Has videas laudes qui sacra uirgine gaudes...Salve
     uirgo uirginum... [a farcing of the Salve Regina, attributed to
     Bonaventure, Opera, 1668 ed., 6. 466-67] and its prayer, Deus qui de
     beate marie uirginis utero.... f. 34v ruled, but blank

     4. ff. 35r-37r    O intemerata...[masculine forms; Wilmart 488-90]. f.
     37v ruled, but blank

     5. ff. 38r-41v    Obsecro te...[masculine forms; Leroquais, LH 2.346-
     47].

     6. ff. 41v-56v    Various prayers. Quicumque hec septem gaudia [heading
     gives 100 days of indulgence from Pope Clement]...Uirgo templum
     trinitatis...[RH 21899]; Oratio a nostra domina oratio [sic] Te precor
     sanctissima maria mater dei pietate plenissima...[masculine forms]; Ad
     ymaginem christi crucifixi bona oratio. Omnibus consideratis...[verse
     prayer in 10 parts referring to the wounds of Christ, with the 9th to
     the Virgin and the 10th to John the Evangelist, attributed to Jean de
     Limoges; see Wilmart 527 and 584] with its prayer, Omnipotens
     sempiterne deus qui unigenitum filium tuum....

     7. ff. 57r-71r    Penitential Psalms and Litany. Among the 12 martyrs,
     Thomas (9); among the 14 confessors, Bavo (3), Gildard (8), Medard (9),
     Hubert (11), Ghislain (12); among the 17 virgins, Genevieve (13),
     Zuwarda (16), and Afra (17).

     8. ff. 71v-91r    Office of the Dead, use unidentified; the responses
     at Matins are: 1. Credo quod, 2. Qui lazarum, 3. Domine quando, 4. Heu
     michi, 5. Ne recorderis, 6. Ne tradas, 7. Peccantem me, 8. Domine
     secundum, 9. Libera me domine de morte. f. 91v ruled, but blank

     9. ff. 92r-102v    Commendationes animarum with Ps. 118 only, and the
     prayer, Misericordiam tuam domine...; f. 102 misbound and should follow
     f. 97.

     10. ff. 103r-114v    Psalmi de passione, all in full, with Ps. 23 not
     copied and with the order of Pss. 25 and 26 reversed.

     11. ff. 115r-130r    Psalterium sancti ieronimi, preceded by the
     prayer, Suscipere dignare domine deus omnipotens...[HE 116-22]. f. 130v
     ruled, but blank

          Parchment, ff. iv (paper) + 130 + iii (paper), 111 x 77 (62 x 37)
     mm., trimmed. Written in 19 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; single
     bounding lines full across except on ff. 23-27, where the upper
     horizontal lines are double and the lower single or double; some
     prickings visible in outer margins.
          Bound too tightly for accurate collation.
          Written in two sizes of liturgical gothic by two scribes. Scribe
     1: ff. 1r-22v and 28r-130r; Scribe 2: ff. 22v-26v. Many later marginal
     notes throughout, including titles at the top of each page.
          One very crude full-page miniature on f. 71v (Office of the Dead):
     mourners at a bier. Set in a narrow arched frame of gold edged in
     black, in a border of pink, blue, and green acanthus leaves
     (concentrated at corners), flowers in same colors, infilled with black
     ink hair-spray with gold dots; the whole rather carelessly done. 6- and
     5-line initials (ff. 57r and 72r): blue with white highlights, on gold
     ground, infilled with blue, green, and pink trilobe leaves, with
     segmented bar border (strapwork corners) in blue, white, pink, black,
     and gold; full border as for miniature. Other illuminated initials (5-
     to 2-line, as above) with segmented bar borders without strapwork, and
     full borders as for full-page miniature. 5-line initials (ff. 35r and
     38r) gold, on pink and blue ground with white highlights; in inner
     margin, a simple bar border sprouting black hair-spray with gold leaves
     at top and bottom. 2-line initials: gold on pink and blue grounds with
     white highlights. 1-line initials within text sometimes marked with a
     red stroke. Line fillers: occasionally a red cable after a rubric or,
     in the litany, oblique red and blue strokes with dots attached (perhaps
     added later, as colors do not match those of 1-line initials). Rubrics
     in orange-tinted red.
          Mold at bottom of ff. 122-130; text not damaged.
          Binding: s. xix. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled.

          Written in Flanders [?] in the second half of the 15th century,
     probably for the English market (cf. Ker, MMBL, v. 1, p. 46); early
     provenance unknown. On f. 27r, "William Harriman his booke." On f. 27v
     signatures of John Browne and Robert Browen [?]; on f. 11r: "Robert
     Laing, is my nam and with my pen." Inscription (s. xix?) of J. Kendall
     (inside cover and on f. 1r). From the Russell G. Pruden Collection;
     donated by Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Prentis in 1949.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 30, no. 109.

     Barbara A. Shailor