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Missal, Sarum use, and selections from votive masses and sequences : [manuscript]

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Part 1. ff. i r-v, 1-204v [Missal, Sarum use]: f. i r-v: votive masses [added in late 15th c.]; ff. 1-6v: graded calendar; ff. 7-90v: temporale (Advent-Easter Eve); ff. 91-93v: prefaces (2 with notation); ff. 94-96v: canon of the mass, lacking the Crucifixion miniature; ff. 96v-145v: temporale (Easter through 25th Sunday after Pentecost); ff. 145v-188: sanctorale; ff. 188-204v: common of saints. Part 2. ff. 205-212v: [Votive masses; quire added from another book, early 15th c., beginning defectively; the complete masses are pro quacumque tribulacione (2 sets); contra aereas potestates; pro infirmo; pro benefactoribus vel pro salute minorum; pro specialibus amicis; pro defunctis (many sets); orationes generales pro vivis et defunctis; Gloria, with 6 inset phrases mainly referring to the Virgin]. Part 3. ff. 213-215v: [Votive masses; quire added from another book, late 15th c.]: f. 213: the Mass for St. Gregory's Trental, collect, secret and postcommunion only; ff. 213v-215a: Masses with full office of Anne and Anthony abbot; f. 215b: Mass pro mortalitate evitanda, introit, ""Recordare,"" through part of the lection from Luke. Part 4: ff. 216-222v. [Sequences; quire added from another book, mid-15th c.]: 32 sequences from the first Sunday of Advent, ending defectively in the Purification; one leaf missing after f. 216, with loss of text from the end of the sequence for Stephen through the beginning of the sequence for the Circumcision.
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Date
[14th-15th century]
Call number
mssHM 19918
Provenance
A note added to the calendar at 1 July in the late fifteenth century reads: Obitus iohannis Nuby, katerine uxoris eius et agnetis Nuby et omnium fratrum et sororum istius loci. The volume was n. 398 in a book dealer's catalogue, with the relevant slip now glued to the front pastedown. Acquired with funds of the Friends of the Huntington Library from Scribner in July 1958.
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RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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