Lot 17
  • 17

An unrecorded leaf from the Hungerford Hours, in Anglo-Norman and Latin [England, c.1320s]

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • bodycolour on vellum
single leaf, c.165x105mm, vellum, text including the prayer ‘Sana me domine a peccatis meis …’, a complete prayer in rhyming Anglo-Norman French: ‘O Marie mere ihesu, qui del seynt esperit as conceu ce est merveille …’, and the start of another: ‘En contre la manere de nature …’, rather dirty, stained, and ragged at the fore-edge, but not affecting the text, and all clearly legible

Catalogue Note

The present leaf is unrecorded; it is especially unusual in having a complete prayer IN ANGLO-NORMAN FRENCH, and the start of another. The Latin prayer as well as the Anglo-Norman texts are apparently unrecorded; Dean and Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature, 1999, p.492 no.986, record only one of the British Library leaves of the manuscript as having unidentified 'rubrics and prayers'. 

From the same manuscript as the previous lot.