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Description
ff. 1-189; [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; f. 13r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 14-21v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 22-93v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Bescançon; ff. 94-99: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 99v-103v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 104-122: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 122v-171: Office of the Dead, use of Bescançon; ff. 171-177v: Obsecro te and O Intemerata; ff. 178-188: Prayers in French. ff. 188v-189v, blank. Book of Hours, written in the middle of the fifteenth century for use in Bescançon to judge by the Hours of the Virgin and the Office of the Dead. Span folios: ff. 1-189v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2⁶(+7, f. 13) 3⁸(?, ff. 14-21) 4-13⁸ 14²(ff. 102-103) 15-24⁸ 25⁶. Catchwords in center lower margin in scripts of varying degree of formality. Ruled space, 100 x 70 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in pale red ink; pricking usually visible. Written in a gothic book hand, in 2 sizes according to liturgical function; ff. 178-188, possibly by a different hand. Decoration: Eighteen large miniatures, by an artist who has worked on other Besançon books of hours (e.g. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MSS 69 and 70, and New York, New York Public Library, NYPL MA 041). In the borders of the calendar, the monthly occupation and the zodiac symbol. Traced band borders in the outer margin of every page, each with a grotesque; these borders also on ff. 188v-189v on ruled, but otherwise blank, leaves. 3-line initials in white-patterned blue on a maroon ground decorated with painted gold, or in white-decorated pink with green leaf infilling against a blue ground; occasionally the infilling is of an older style with colored trilobe leaves. 2-line initials, in alternating pink or blue against a gold ground with trilobe leaf infilling; 1-line initials in gold with the two colors as ground and infilling; ribbon line fillers in the same colors; initials within the text washed in yellow. Rubrics throughout. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009. 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 dark blue morocco by Simier and elaborately gilt by Debèse, with tooled parchment doublures; gauffered gilt edges; remains of 2 silver-gilt fore edge clasps. HM 1141. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. iii + ii + 189 + ii + iii : parchment ; 165 x 230 mm.
Books of hours France 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century (aat) Grotesques France 15th century. (aat) Coats of arms France 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Arms on f. 5v, gules a bend argent, of the Neufchâtel family. Arms on f. 71 of Guy de La Baume, count of Montrevel (d. 1516; Montrevel is in the department of the Ain) and his wife Jeanne de Longwy, per pale, 1, or a bend indented azure (de la Baume; see Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 145); 2, azure a bend or (Longwy; see Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 86). Notes relating to the Rye and Longwy families for the years 1557-67 are on the first leaves of the calendar (the three sons of Simon de Rye and Jeanne de La Baume married the three daughters of Christophe de Longwy and Jeanne de Neufchâtel); a transcription of these notes and information regarding the family members mentioned in them have been carefully copied out in red and black ink on ff. ii-iii verso; the transcription is signed and dated, although by a different hand,"19 Avril 1862. E. M. Bancel"; his sale, Paris, 8 May 1882, n. 12 to Ellis. The manuscript belonged to E. Dwight Church; see his Catalogue of . . . English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 403 with a plate of f. 65v. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
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