M.24

Described de Ricci, Census, p. 1369; CORSAIR online. Reproduction of f. 14 (with earlier foliation f. 1) in Wieck, Painted Prayers, p. 12, no. 2.

[1]

f. 14

These prayers folowyng ought for to be sayd or ye departe out of your chambre at your vprysyng.

English rubric to Latin prayer following, ‘Auxilia sit michi trinitas sancta’.

Other texts: M.117 [1], M.1033 [1], and see also IMEP 6, indexing Leeds BC 15 [2].

[2]

f. 14v

Whan thou goest fyrst out of thy hous blesse the sayeng thus.

English rubric to Latin prayer following, ‘Crux triumphalis domini’.

Other texts: M.117 [2], M.1033 [2].

[3]

f. 15

Whan thou entrest into the chirche say thus.

English rubric to Latin prayer following, ‘Domine in multitudine misericordie tue introibo in domum tuam’.

Other texts: M.117 [3], M.1033 [5].

[4]

f. 15

Whan thou takest holy water say thus.

English rubric to Latin prayer following on f. 15v, ‘Aqua benedicta sit michi salus et vita’.

Other texts: M.117 [4], M.1033 [6].

[5]

f. 15v

Whan thou begynnest to praye thus begynne knelyng.

English rubric to Latin prayer following, ‘Discedite a me maligni et scrutabor mandata dei mei’.

Other texts: M.117 [5], M.1033 [7], and see IMEP 6, indexing Leeds BC 15 [2].

MS c. 1475–1500. Book of Hours, Sarum Use. Similar or identical rubrics and prayers were printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1494 (STC 15875); see Hoskins, pp. 107–109. Fifteenth century, marriage entry Oct. 4, John Bade and Anne, sole daughter of Frances Roos; owned sixteenth century by Thomas Richard; signature seventeenth century Letties Kinnersly; owned nineteenth century Charles Thomas Moore (1874–1898), Frampton Hall. Bought by J. Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson (London) in 1908.

M.117

Described de Ricci, Census, p. 1388; John Plummer, The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420–1530 (New York, 1982), p. 71, no. 92; CORSAIR online, with fifty-seven images, including f. 7 with its English rubric. Decorated with borders, illuminated initials and twenty-nine large miniatures, seventeen small miniatures, twenty-four calendar illustrations.