Nine Leaves from a Book of Hours (Use of Sarum) Produced in England, 1425 colophon, 16th century.

Description: Eight decorated folios + one leaf from an elegant English Book of Hours produced for some (endowed?) chapel in an English church or cathedral (rubrics on other leaves give instructions that the texts be read “sub silentio”)> A sixteenth-century inscription on the endleaf of the volume reads as follows: “Ye shall pray for the saules of Edward Cotterell & Margaret hys wyff, & of Roger, Thomas, John, William, Jane, Amey, Elizabeth, chylderyn of the seid Edwarde & Margaret”. Provenance: From the Library of Sir Robert Throckmorton (d. 1791; his armorial bookplate was in the volume sold in 2013). Then owned by John Meade Falkner (1858-1932), arms manufacturer and Librarian of Durham cathedral; auctioned by Sotheby's (12-14 December 1932, Lot 211) and acquired by H.R. Creswick (1902-88), Librarian of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, for his personal collection. After 1940 owned by Charles F. Cutts (1871-1949), and then by the Nevada Museum of Art, which sold it "to benefit the collections" (Christie's, 12 June 2013, Sale 1176, Lot 23. The catalog mentions 78+2 leaves bound in one volume).These leaves were eventually acquired in 2015 by Cornell. As of 2016, one other leaf is owned by the University of South Carolina, MS 138, and nine leaves are kept at Emory University, in the Pitts Theological Library, MS 370.