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English: Royal MS 2 A XVIII:

From the description of this page: October from BL Royal 2 A XVIII, f. 32v Calendar page for October with four additions: 1. the date of Catherine's of Aragon arrival to England in 1501; 2. the dates of prince Edward's birth in 1537, the death of queen Jane Seymour, and the death of Elizabeth Lucar; 3. the obits of Donsoliza and Sybil de Grandison; 4. the date of the coronation of Henry VII. Image taken from f. 32v of Book of Hours (The 'Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours'), Use of Sarum. Written in Latin.

From the description of the entire text: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, including: 1. Two prayers, to St Christopher and the Guardian Angel (De proprio angelo) and some verses of psalms added by a later hand on f. 27r (ff. 25r-27r); 2. Calendar including English saints, with numerous later additions (see Provenance) (ff. 28r-33v); A similar set of additions to the calendar is included in the Psalter that belonged to Elizabeth of York and subsequently to Catherine of Aragon, (now Oxford, Exeter College, MS. 47) and in the Book of Hours printed in Paris in 1495 that belonged to Anne Curson of Brightwell, wife of Paul Withypoll and mother of Elizabeth Lucar whose death is commemorated in this manuscript (f. 32v) (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 24).3. Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use (ff. 34r-35v); 4. The Five Joys and the Seven Joys of the Virgin (ff. 64r-65v);5. Penitential and gradual Psalms (ff. 66r-73r);6. Litany (ff. 73v-77v); 7. Office of the Dead (ff. 78r-95v). Decoration: 1 half-page miniature in colours and gold of the Annunciation (f. 34r), at the beginning of the Hours to the Virgin (Matins). 2 small miniatures in colours and gold at the beginning of prayers: St Christopher (f. 25r), and a woman with a scroll reading: ‘Sub umbra alarum tuarum protégé me’ before her guardian angel holding a scroll reading: ‘dominus custodiat tea b omni malo’(f. 26r). 4 historiated initials in colours and gold: woman with a book and scroll ‘Mater ora filium ut post hunc exilium nobis donet gaudium sine fine’, at the beginning of Matins (f. 34r); Last Judgement, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms (f. 66r); service for the dead, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead (f. 78r). Initials in gold and blue with blue and red flourishing. Line-fillers in gold and blue. The illuminations are attributed to the London artist William Abell.

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