Illuminating faith : the Bute Book of Hours

"The Bute Book of Hours, an English manuscript dating to c. 1500 in The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum, has received cursory attention from scholars in the past. This paper is the first to conduct a comprehensive examination of the object, evaluating its style, iconography, content, religious significance, and patronage. Careful study has revealed that the Bute Book is greatly indebted to early engravings for its imagery, perhaps more than any other known manuscript. The suffrages to saints were selected based on their powers against the plague, Tudor religious preferences, and regional significance. Special attention has been given to more unusual insertions such as Sts. Armel and Ninian, and Henry VI. The Bute Book of Hours was created for a wealthy Englishman, most likely with Yorkshire connections, and it illustrates the tenor of a nation undergoing rapid political, social and religious changes"

The Book of Hours : in which are contained offices for the seven canonical hours, litanies, and other devotions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Description of a very beautiful Book of hours; illuminated probably by Hans Memling and Gérard David; now in the possesion of George C. Thomas; with reproductions in photogravure of 11 representative miniatures.

The illuminated manuscript has title: Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae secundum usum romanum, cum calendario.

Domesticating the calendar: the hours and the almanac in Tudor England

This article examines two genres of text which were extremely popular in the late-medieval and early modern periods, and it pays particular attention to women users. The printed almanacs of sixteenth-century England were enormously influential; yet their contents are so formulaic and repetitive as to appear almost empty of valuable information. Their most striking feature is their astrological guidance for the reader, and this has led to them being considered 'merely' the repository of popular superstition. Only in the last decade have themes of gender and medicine been given serious consideration in relation to almanacs; but this work has focused on the seventeenth century. This chapter centres on a detailed analysis of sixteenth-century English almanacs, and the various kinds of scientific and household guidance they offered to women readers. Both compilers and users needed to chart a safe course through the religious and scientific battles of the time; and the complexities involved are demonstrated by considering the almanacs in relation to competing sources of guidance. These latter are Books of Hours and 'scientific' works such as medical calendars compiled by Oxford scholars in the late middle ages. A key feature of this chapter is that it gives practical interpretations of this complex information, for the guidance of modern readers unfamiliar with astrology.

Magnalia Christi americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England : from its first planting, in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord 1698. In seven books /

Each book has special t.-p.

The law-French dictionary alphabetically digested; very useful for all young students in the common laws of England. To which is added, The law-Latin dictionary: being an alphabetical collection of such law-Latin words as are found in several authentic manuscripts, and printed books of precedents.

Caption title for v. 2 reads: The Pleader's dictionary.

Harrison's Description of England in Shakspere's youth. Being the second and third books of his Description of Britaine and England.

A fourth part (The supplement, # 2) planned by the society, was published 1908 in The Shakespeare library.

A history of the Book of common prayer and other books of authority : with an attempt to ascertain how the rubrics and canons have been understood and observed from the Reformation to the accession of George III : also an account of the state of religion and religious parties in England from 1640-1660 /

Mode of access: Internet.

The use of patient experience survey data by out-of-hours primary care services: a qualitative interview study

Background English National Quality Requirements mandate out-of-hours primary care services to routinely audit patient experience, but do not state how it should be done.

Objectives We explored how providers collect patient feedback data and use it to inform service provision. We also explored staff views on the utility of out-of-hours questions from the English General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS).

Methods A qualitative study was conducted with 31 staff (comprising service managers, general practitioners and administrators) from 11 out-of-hours primary care providers in England, UK. Staff responsible for patient experience audits within their service were sampled and data collected via face-to-face semistructured interviews.

Results Although most providers regularly audited their patients’ experiences by using patient surveys, many participants expressed a strong preference for additional qualitative feedback. Staff provided examples of small changes to service delivery resulting from patient feedback, but service-wide changes were not instigated. Perceptions that patients lacked sufficient understanding of the urgent care system in which out-of-hours primary care services operate were common and a barrier to using feedback to enable change. Participants recognised the value of using patient experience feedback to benchmark services, but perceived weaknesses in the out-of-hours items from the GPPS led them to question the validity of using these data for benchmarking in its current form.

Conclusions The lack of clarity around how out-of-hours providers should audit patient experience hinders the utility of the National Quality Requirements. Although surveys were common, patient feedback data had only a limited role in service change. Data derived from the GPPS may be used to benchmark service providers, but refinement of the out-of-hours items is needed.

Catalogue of the important library of manuscripts and printed books of the late Frederic Ouvry ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ...

1628 items, with sales prices and purchasers indicated by marginal mss. notes.

"Year books of probates" from 1630. Abstracts of probate acts in the Prerogative court of Canterbury.

No more published.

Catalogue of nineteen books of the highest importance, from the library of the late Earl of Carysfort, K.P., sold by order of the owner, Col. D.J. Proby, and with the consent of the trustees and of the court.

The collection was sold at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, July, 1923.

Passages from the American note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Edited by Mrs. Hawthorne.