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Description
ff. 1-178v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar in French; ff. 13-24: pericopes of the Gospels with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata [f. 24v, blank]; ff. 25-95v: Office of the Virgin, use of Rome with changed office for Advent; ff. 96-116v: penitential psalms and litany; ff. 117-120: Short Hours of the Cross; ff. 120v-123v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 124-167v: Office of the Dead; ff. 167v-172: prayers, many specifying the occasion with a rubric in French; ff. 172v-173: [added in a later cursive hand] Stabat mater dolorosa. [ff. 173v-178v, blank]. Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France towards the middle of the fifteenth century, for use in Paris, to judge by the saints in the calendar. The Hours of the Virgin are in the use of Rome; the Office of the Dead is unidentified. Span folios: ff. 1-178v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1¹² 2⁸ 3⁴ 4-6⁸ 7⁶(to f. 54) 8-12⁸ 13⁸(+2, f. 96) 14⁸ 15⁶(-1, cancelled by the scribe) 16-22⁸ 23⁶. Ruled space, 90 x 56 mm; 16 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in a liturgical gothic book hand. Decoration: Twelve large miniatures by or certainly related in style to the Master of the Horloge de Sapience; on f. 173v, s. XVI, a sketch of a female saint (Margaret?) standing on what appears under ultra-violet light to be a large animal. 3-line initials on these folios in white-patterned blue on a cusped gold ground, with trilobe leaf infilling; similar 4-line initials for the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata, on a square ground; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on dusky rose ground infilled with blue, and the whole patterned in white, or with the colors reversed; ribbon line fillers in the same style. Rubrics in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/10/2009. 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 18th century worn blue velvet with heavy gold and silver embroidery, spelling out "Missale Romanum" along the spine; red silk endpapers; gauffered gilt edges; at the time of the Robert Hoe sale, in a silk bag. HM 1123. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours France 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Two modern erased inscriptions, possibly of ownership, on f. ii verso and f. 1, the latter beginning "Edw . . . C . . .". Belonged to Robert Hoe: Cat. pp. 53-54; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n. 2068 to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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