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Litanies. Prayers, documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing liturgical prayers consisting of phrases recited by a leader alternating with responses by a congregation.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.5
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Calendar in black, blue and red (folio 3). Entries in red include Saints Edward (18 March) and Dunstan (19 May), `Depositio sancti Augustini` (26 May), ordination of St Gregory (3 September) and translations of Saints Hugh (6 October) and Edward (13 October).(ii) Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent (folio 9) and from Christmas to the Purification (folio 11 verso).(iii) Confession, attributed in the...
Dates: Late 14th century.

“Een seer schoon ende deuoet boexken inhoudende vele schoon ghebekens vvaer mede een Christen mensche hem sal oeffenen om die eeuvvighe salicheyt te vervverue ... Anno 1575.”

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.12
Scope and Contents A prayer book from the Low Countries written in 1575. The work contains various prayers in Dutch, as well as the seven penitential psalms and the litany.The work is written in cursive hands in black ink with rubrics and some initials in red. There appear to be four different hands present in the volume.The main body of the work is written in the same cursive hand, while two decorative elements are accompanied by a different bookhand. Folios 154v-158v are written in a...
Dates: 1575.

Perth Psalter, containing calendar, psalter, canticles, and litany.

 Item
Identifier: MS.652
Scope and Contents Referred to as the Perth Psalter from the entry in the calendar on 3rd September, ‘Dedicacio ecclesie de Perth’.The calendar and the litany are based on the use of Sarum, with additional entries for Scottish Saints. There are several illuminated capitals, four of the larger of these are accompanied by full-page borders of conventional foliage. Accompanying the manuscript is a list of additions to the calendar in a later cursive hand which were brought out by chemical action by F...
Dates: Late 15th century.

Sarum processional, 15th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.20
Scope and Contents 15th-century processional produced in England. The manuscript contains musical services according to the Use of Sarum. The work is written in littera textualis with 24 lines to a page.The contents are as follows:Temporale. Folios 1r-143v.Sanctorale. Folios 144r-176v.Commune Sanctorum and Votive. Folios 176v-193v. Folio 1r is extensively decorated and features two illuminated initials and a complete border. The initials are blue and...
Dates: 15th century.