Script
Handwriting style
Since the final section of this manuscript (The Prayer of Bede on the Seven Words) was added in the fifteenth century, the handwriting is indeed from different scribes. However, I am unsure if the original manuscript was written by different scribes. I would assume it could have been, especially since the creators are speculated to be a group of illuminators.
Incipit
Due to missing pages of the manuscript, the text currently begins with the Matins of the Hours of the Virgin. This reads:
Domine labia...Venite exultemus...
(Egbert, 1936, p. 535).
Explicit
The Prayer of the Seven Words was added to the book by hand in the fifteenth century. It begins and ends as follows:
Domine Ihesu Christe qui septem verba... por infinita seculorum secula. Amen
(Egbert, 1936,p. 535).
Subscriptio and/or colophon
There appears to be no information regarding the author, scribe, date, and place of the Grey-Fitzpayn Hours, hence the speculation on who created it and why. On the front end-paper, the number 242 appears twice. This was the number of the book in the Fitzwilliam Museum collection. The inscription "Clifford of Frampton/Gray" also appears on the front end-paper - this is a modern identification of the original owners (Egbert, 1936, p. 535).
Marginalia
There is no writing in the margins of The Grey-Fitzpayn Hours. Instead, the margins are filled with animals, birds, and grotesques. Borders project from the historiated initials and provide areas for what author Harthan (1977) describes as “lively hunting scenes” (p. 45). This includes a rabbit crouching behind a deer that has been struck by an archer, a lion and fox-like animal looking on, a goat climbing the outer margin searching for foliage, and birds looking upon the heraldic shields and figure of Christ. These hunting scenes are similar to manuscripts of this period. Several heraldic shields also appear in the margins of this manuscript.