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Description
ff. 1-113v (+ 14 bis, 49 bis) [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; ff. 13-17: Prayers for the priest to say before and after mass; ff. 17-19: Prayers to say after mass; f. 19v, ruled, but blank; ff. 20-59: Hours of the Virgin, use of Langres with short hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit worked in; f. 59v, blank; ff. 60-73v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 74-97v: Office of the Dead, use of Langres followed by the Commendations of the dead and other prayers; ff. 98-110v: Obsecro te, O Intemerata (masculine forms), other prayers and suffrages of Desiderius and Denis. ff. 111-113v, blank. Book of Hours written at the end of the fifteenth century in France, for use in Langres, as indicated by the liturgical forms of the hours of the Virgin and the office of the Dead, and by the saints of the calendar and the litany. Span folios: ff. 1-113v (with 14 bis and 49 bis). Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 38(through f. 19) 4-58 68(-3, after f. 37) 7-88 92(through f. 59) 10-158 166. Ruled space, 110 x 69 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking occasionally visible along the outer margin. Written in two sizes of a Bâtarde script, according to liturgical function. Decoration: Eleven large miniatures above 4 lines of text, enclosed by simple painted gold frames; the outer borders usually compartmentalized. 4-line initials in white-patterned blue or orange-tinged pink on a burnished gold ground with trilobe leaf infilling; 2- and 1-line initials in burnished gold on alternating dark pink or blue grounds with infilling of the other color; ribbon line fillers in the same colors; initials in the text touched in yellow. Rubrics in a rather orange-colored red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/13/2009. 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 by F. Bedford in brown morocco with gold tooling; gilt edges. HM 1169. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. ii + 113 (with 14 bis and 49 bis) + iii : parchment ; 136 x 196 mm.
Books of hours France 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 22; Cat. (1909) pp. 71-72; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2346 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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