Stowe Breviary
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The Stowe Breviary is an early-fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript
Breviary
from England, providing the divine office
according to the Sarum ordinal and calendar
(with Norwich additions).
It is thought to be by the same as the Macclesfield Psalter
and the Douai Psalter
. The manuscript forms part of the Stowe manuscripts
in the British Library
.
Illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders and miniature illustrations...
Breviary
Breviary
A breviary is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office...
from England, providing the divine office
Divine Office
Divine Office may refer to:* Liturgy of the Hours, the recitation of certain Christian prayers at fixed hours according to the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church* Canonical hours, the recitation of such prayers in Christianity more generally...
according to the Sarum ordinal and calendar
Sarum Rite
The Sarum Rite was a variant of the Roman Rite widely used for the ordering of Christian public worship, including the Mass and the Divine Office...
(with Norwich additions).
It is thought to be by the same as the Macclesfield Psalter
Macclesfield Psalter
The Macclesfield Psalter is a lavishly illuminated manuscript from the English region of East Anglia, written in Latin and produced around 1330...
and the Douai Psalter
Douai Psalter
The Douai Psalter was an East Anglian illuminated manuscript, destroyed during World War I...
. The manuscript forms part of the Stowe manuscripts
Stowe manuscripts
The Stowe manuscripts are a collection of about 2000 Anglo-Saxon and later medieval manuscripts, nearly all now in the British Library. The manuscripts date from 1154 to the end of the 14th century....
in the British Library
British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
.
Sources
- Sherry Reames, "Origins and Affiliations of the Pre-Sarum Office for Anne in the Stowe Breviary", in Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance, Essays Dedicated to Andrew Hughes, ed. John Haines and Randall Rosenfeld (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 349-68.