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AUGUSTINIAN BREVIARY, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Yorkshire, c. 1380] 232 x 160mm, 152 leaves + 2 medieval fly leaves at end, with modern pencil foliation. COMPLETE. Collation: 1-7 8 , 8 8 (but misbound in 2 quires of 4ff), 9-12 8 , 13 4 (3.4 cancelled), 14-18 8 , 19 4 , 20 8 +2 . 43 lines, catchwords, double column, ruled in black and brown ink, justification: 188 x 129mm, written in black and brown ink in a gothic liturgical script by two scribes, rubrics in red, initials throughout in blue with elaborate marginal red penwork decoration, often the length of the page, including occasional grotesques. 10 TWO- TO FIVE-LINE ILLUMINATED INITIALS in burnished gold on blue and red ground with white tracery; one historiated initial (a little rubbed). FINE DRAWINGS IN BORDERS of 8 pages, including armorials, a monkey, a dog, a falcon, foliage, etc. (decoration sometimes cropped). 18th-century English calf. PROVENANCE: 1. Made for the use of Austin Canons at Bridlington, Yorkshire. The calendar is for the use of York. It includes Saints Wilfrid, John of Beverley, Cuthbert, Oswald, Dunstan, Swithin, etc., all with their additional feast of translation. John of Bridlington has been added on 9 October. He died in 1379 and the entry is clearly earlier than his canonization in 1401, as it does not list him as a saint. (His present feast day is 21 October.) From 1362 to his death, John, an Austin canon, was Prior of St. Augustine's monastery at Bridlington and was greatly loved and respected. The presence in the calendar of the feast of St. Augustine on 28 August, his translation on 11 October, both red and duplex, as well as his Octave on 4 September, confirm the Augustinian use. The first entry is followed by the letters 'p.n.' i.e. patris nostri. At the end of the Sanctorale is a special series of prayers to be said on the feast of St. Augustine. The priory established for Austin Canons at Bridlington was founded by Walter de Gant about 1113, and became a centre of flourishing literary activity in the North. A contemporary armorial: Sable, two bars argent in chief, three plates, appears in the margin of three leaves (f.42v, 106v and 119v). A note in an eighteenth-century hand attributes this to Hungerford, but we believe that in fact it refers to the Fitzjohn family. Eustace Fitzjohn (d. 1157) was a great benefactor to the Austin Canons at Bridlington. In the 14th century branches of the family lived in Lincolnshire and Wiltshire, and a daughter of Sir Adam Fitzjohn married Walter de Hungerford circa 1330, who on the marriage adopted the Fitzjohn arms. At the very end of the book is an inscription in the same hand as the rest of the text 'ex dono fundatoris nostri'. This may refer to Eustace Fitzjohn. 2. Obit of Nichalannd? [i.e. Nicholas?] Holdsworth, in the year of our Lord Md hundreth xxviii (1528), xxx day of March, inserted in the calendar. 3. Johannes Stubbes, 1557. An account of money owed to him by Peter Thaxton, on verso of last leaf. 4. Presentation inscription to James Hungerford, Presbyter, as long as he continues in the priesthood. Otherwise it will become the property of William de Areton. The book must not be sold. Early-17th-century inscription (on f. 98v). 5. Note on endpaper 'June 1816. D's Sale by Evans. -10-' TEXT: Temporale (ff.1-61); Calendar (ff.62-64, wrongly bound); Ferial Psalter (ff.65-96); Litany (ff.96v-97); Sanctorale, including a long office for St. Augustine (ff.99-148); Prayer to be said on the feast of St. Augustine (f.143v); Common of the Saints (ff.144-152); Suffrages, including St. Augustine (f.152-152v). Two medieval flyleaves from another 14th-century Psalter. The marginal drawings in red ink are very accomplished and typical of 14th-century English manuscript illustration. Some of the motifs of the initials also appear in the margins. The historiated initial introducing the Sanctorale depicts the Christ-Child lying in a crib. THIS IS AN UNUSUAL AND RARE SERVICE BOOK.