tih00420000

Text-inc Id:

tih00420000

Bod-inc Id:

H-181

Headings:

Horae ad usum Sarum (Salisbury) Fragment.

Imprint:

[Bruges: William Caxton, c.1475]. 8°. Usually recorded as Westminster, 1476, but more likely to be Bruges since its compositorial practice conforms with the Bruges Cordiale, not with any Westminster books. Collation not known.

Collation:

Type: 135; capital spaces. 12 lines (1^r). Type area: 81 × 56 mm (1^r). Leaf 1^r: ‘ſue ſalutarem conſequātur | effectū | Beatus nicholaus ad | huc puerulus multo ieiu= | nio macerabat corpus | Ora pro nobis . . .'; 1^v, l. 3: ‘ . . . Ma | ria ergo vnxit pedes iheſu | . . .'; 2^r, l. 7: ‘Virgo ſancta | katherīa grecie gēm[a] . . .'; 2^v, l. 11: ‘Erat autem mar | gareta annorum quīdecim |'; 3^r, l. 7: ‘[ ]eus qui tres ma= | gos orientales Ia= | ſpar Melchior et Baltha= | ſar ad tua cunabula . . .'; 4^r, l. 9: ‘Ora pro nobis beata u̇go | barbara . . .’

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00420000 C 3052; Goff H‑420; Pr 9623; Bohatta, Horae, 114; de Ricci, Caxton, 50; Duff 174; Hoskins 1; not in HPT; ILC 1211; Sheppard 7366-7; STC 15867. LCN: 14463845

Copies:

1. H-181(1) Copy A fragment consisting of four leaves forming the outer half-sheet of a gathering, containing a portion of the suffrages at Lauds (St Thomas of Canterbury, St Nicholas, St Mary Magdalen, St Katharine, St Margaret, the Three Kings, St Barbara). For reproduction see Blades, Caxton, II (1863), 42-3. For this copy see Caxton, Exhibition, Bodley, no. 8. Binding: The former binding, nineteenth-century half purple morocco, is now Douce Fragm. g.1*. Size of leaf: 118 × 86 mm. Provenance: Richard Farmer (1735-1797); a note in his hand in the upper margin of leaf 2^v: ‘Caxton's Letter, not in Ames.' Francis Douce (1757-1834). Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. g.1.