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Description
ff. 1-141v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-11v: Full calendar in French; ff. 12-22v: Pericopes of the Gospels, the Obsecro te, the O Intemerata, and a prayer to Jesus; ff. 23-69: Hours of the Virgin, possibly of the use of Paris; f. 69v, ruled, but blank; ff. 70-75: Short hours of the Cross, missing the opening leaf; ff. 75v-80v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 80v-84v: Catena mainly from John 19, 1-34 sparsim, and prayers; ff. 85-98: Penitential psalms, beginning defectively, and litany; f. 98v, ruled, but blank; ff. 99-138v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris, beginning and ending defectively; ff. 139-141: Prayer to the Virgin and suffrage of Christopher. f. 141v, blank. Book of Hours, use of Paris[?], written in the early fifteenth century in France. Span folios: ff. 1-141v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation impracticable, but appears to be in gatherings of 8. Ruled space, 95 x 58 mm; 17 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a Bâtarde script in two sizes according to liturgical function. Decoration: Only one miniature survives; the remaining 12[?] were apparently cut out, as indicated by the loss of text at the beginning of each section, by the presence of some stubs at those points and by the offset of color onto the presumed facing pages. The miniature was apparently over-painted in the late fifteenth century. 3- and 2-line initials in white-patterned blue on burnished gold grounds with colored trilobe leaf infilling; 1-line initials in burnished gold alternating pink and blue for the infilling and the background; ribbon line fillers in the same colors. Rubrics in deep red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/17/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 19th century worn red velvet lettered "Missal" on the spine; 2 engraved silver fore edge clasps; gilt edges. HM 1156. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. iii + ii + 141 + ii + iii : parchment ; 126 x 178 mm.
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