Book of Hours of the use of York

Item date: 15th century
Grant Value: 150
Item cost pre-decimal: 750
Item date acquired: 1964
Item institution: York Minster Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire

126 leaves complete in a modern binding by Douglas Cockerell. Contains two prayers addressed to Richard Scrope, the Archbishop of York executed in 1405 by King Henry IV and popularly venerated as a saint at York, which are unique to this manuscript

Item Provenance
16th century inscription of John and Richard Redman of Kirby. In 1853 the volume was owned by the Rev John C Jackson, in1874 by Mrs Mary Willett and in 1926 it was presented by Sir Leicester Harmsworth to Gwendolen Harmsworth