Rouse MS. 52. HOURS OF THE BVM (Sarum Use) and OFFICE OF THE DEAD.

Title: Rouse MS. 52. HOURS OF THE BVM (Sarum Use) and OFFICE OF THE DEAD.
Uniform title: Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Date Created: s. XV1/4.
Date: 1440
Place of Origin: England (London)
Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Description: Written in the first quarter of the fifteenth century in England, perhaps in or for use in Kent (indicated by inclusion in the calendar of a feast commemorating the return of Thomas Becket from exile, a local commemoration). Signatures f. 39: “Thomas” inverted; f. 58: “John” and “For I am in love with her that me r—ith”; f. 76v: “Antony Lister” (s. XV), f. 79: “Houbande Lister” inverted. Pen trials on ff. 30v, 39, 79. Pencil note on f. ii: “Purchased from the Towneley Hall Library” (Towneley Hall, Lancashire). Dealers’ notes on f. iv: “VNW 138” and “A6”. Bought by Les Enluminures at the Los Angeles Antiquarian Book Fair 16-18 February 1996. Bought from Les Enluminures by Richard and Mary Rouse in February 1996. Given to UCLA in 2005.