Canonizing the apocryphal : London, British library MS Egerton 2781 and its visual, devotional and social contexts [thesis]

Acknowledgments  iii
Abbreviations  xi
List of Illustrations and their Sources  xiv

Introduction  1

Chapter One: The Manuscript, its Contents and Production: The Artists and Scribes of MS Egerton 2781  42

Chapter Two: The Patron, the Owners, and the Prefatory Material in MS Egerton 2781  83

Chapter Three: Devotion to the Virgin and other Sacred Figures  131
The Salutations of the Virgin  131
The Miracles of the Virgin  168
Miscellaneous prayers, the Story of Arnaud and the Commemorations  188

Chapter Four: The Infancy Cycle in the Hours of the Virgin, and the Memoriae in Lauds of
the Hours of the Virgin  222
The Abandoned Program of Marginalia  222
The Apocryphal Infancy Miracles in the Hours of the Virgin: Their Textual, Pictorial and Manuscript Traditions, and their Meaning in the Neville of Hornby Hours  227
The Memoriae in Lauds of the Hours of the Virgin and Miscellaneous Illustrated Texts  280

Chapter Five: The Anglo-French Complaint of Our Ladv/Gospel of Nicodemus and its Illustration  303

Chapter Six: The Destruction of Jerusalem Miniatures  358

Conclusion 393
Date, Stylistic Context and Localization  393
The Neville of Hornby Hours and Medieval "Subjectivity"  396

Appendices  404

Appendix I: Collation and Contents of MS Egerton 2781  404
Appendix II: The Neville of Hornby Pedigree and other Neville Family Branches (adapted, in part, from the "Pedigree of Neville" in G.E.C., The Complete Peerage IX, after 502d)  410
Appendix III: The Neville of Hornby Estates in relation to the Ecclesiastical Divisions
of Lancashire  412
Appendix IV: The Neville of Hornby possessions in Melling Parish, Londsdale Hundred, North Lancashire, including Hornby Manor and its castle, Melling, Wrayton, Arkholme,
Wennington, Wray, Farleton; and part of Tunstall (Yorkshire, boundary conjectural)  413
Appendix V: The Salutations of the Virgin  414
Appendix VI: The Story of Arnaud  417
Appendix VII: The Prayer to Saint Anne  419 
Appendix VIII: The Litany of Saints  421 
Bibliography  423
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