Script and Textual Contents
Description and Contents
The manuscript is written in Latin and French in Gothic bookhand (textualis).
fols. 1r-12v Calendar
fols. 13r-19v Gospel Sequences
fols. 20r-23v Prayer Obsecro te
fols. 24r-28r Prayer O intemerata
fol. 28r-28v Prayers Omnis virtus and Me tibi virgo pia (both added in the 1450s)
fols. 29r-98r Hours of the Virgin
fols. 99r-111v Penitential Psalms
fols. 111v-118v Litany and collects
fols. 119r-126v Hours of the Cross
fols. 127r-133v Hours of the Holy Spirit
fols. 134r-136r Passion according to St John
fols. 137r-140r Prayer Creator celi
fols. 140r-141r Prayers Suscipiat pietas and Salva me Domine
fol. 142r-142v Five Joys of the Virgin
fols. 143r-146v Prayers Ave Maria, Ave mundi, Deprecor te and Sub tuam protectionem
fols. 147r-191v Office of the Dead
fols. 192r-198v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin in French
fols. 199r-204r Seven Requests to Our Lord in French
fols. 204v-226v Suffrages to saints
fols. 226v-231v Prayers to the three Persons of the Trinity
Suffrage to St Radegund
St Radegund, the 6th-century Frankish queen, is seen kneeling before the resurrected Christ in the main image and extending her healing touch to three invalids in the margin. She received seven images and suffrages (fols. 224v-230v), more than any other saint honoured in the volume. The manuscript’s patron must have been particularly devoted to her.
This is the last page of quire 28 and the lower margin preserves a catchword which indicates the opening words on the first page of quire 29.