Book of Hours, use of Rome, and a Prayerbook : [manuscript]
Creator
Catholic Church
Contributor
Thorold, John Hayford, Sir, 1773-1831, former owner Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1104
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Description
Part I. [Book of Hours, use of Rome]: ff. 1-12v: calendar [f. 13r-v, blank]; ff. 14-19: pericopes of the Gospels [ff. 19v-20v, ruled, but blank]; ff. 21-96v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome with changes for Advent; ff. 97-116v: penitential psalms and litany, including Martialis as the last of the apostles; ff. 117-160v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome. Hours for each day of the week, as follow: ff. 161-164v: Short hours of the Trinity; ff. 165-168v: Short hours of the Dead; ff. 169-174v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 175-178v: Short hours of All Saints; ff. 179-182v: Short hours of the Eucharist; ff. 183-190v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 191-194v: Short hours of the Virgin; ff. 195-198v: Short hours of St. Catherine; ff. 199-202: Septem gaudia beate marie virginis [f. 202v, blank]. Part II. [Prayerbook in Latin and Occitan]. ff. 203-236: Prayers in Latin; ff. 236-244v: Penitential material in Occitan. Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France at the beginning of the fifteenth century in two stages (probably concurrent). A first scribe copied the more usual texts of a book of hours, including the short hours of the Holy Spirit and of the Cross; he collaborated with the first artist who worked in the style of the Master of Luçon. A second scribe and illuminator were responsible for the less common material (the short hours of the Trinity, the Dead, All Saints, the Eucharist, the Virgin and St. Catherine) which was then meshed with the standard texts to convert the material to a full week of specific devotions. At the end of the century, ca. 1490, a later owner in the south of France added a Prayerbook and had the illuminations of the first part retouched, sometimes extensively, by an artist whose style derived from that of Jean Colombe. Part I. Span folios: ff. 1-202v. Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2⁶(+1 leaf in the second half; the last leaf is blank) 3⁸(-1 leaf in the second half; through f. 20, blank) 4-6⁸ 7⁶(through f. 50) 8¹⁰(through f. 60) 9⁸ 10⁴(through f. 72) 11-15⁸ 16⁴(through f. 116) 17-21⁸ 22-24⁴ 25⁶(through f. 174) 26-27⁴ 28⁸(through f. 190) 29⁴(through f. 194) 30-31⁴(through f. 202). Note that the divisions of the text in this part correspond to breaks between the quires; this is particularly evident for the series of short hours and the Seven Joys: each is copied on a separate quire. Ruled space, 133 x 75 mm; 15 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written by 3 scribes: i, ff. 1-160v, 169-174v (quire 25, Hours of the Holy Spirit) and 183-190v (quire 28, Hours of the Cross) in a gothic book hand; ii, ff. 161-168v, 175-182v and 191-202 in a less precise gothic book hand; iii, Part 2, ff. 203-244v in a careful cursive rounded hand, with some traces of gothic. Part I decoration: Twenty-two large miniatures, the majority executed, in the early 15th century, in the style of the Master of Luçon; a second artist, contemporary to the first, worked on the supplemental materials. The miniatures occur on the first recto of the quires, except for those on ff. 32, 56 and 65, which are positioned on one of the two rectos of the center bifolium. Part II. Span folios: ff. 203-248v. Parchment. Layout: Quires with numeration continued from Part 1: 32-36⁸ 37⁶. Catchwords written vertically along the inner bounding line; quire and leaf signatures as letters, a-[f], and roman numerals, with an x on the first leaf of the second half of the gathering. Ruled space, 133 x 75 mm; 15 long lines ruled in light brown ink. Written in a Bâtarde script. Part II decoration: Three miniatures. The artist of Part 2 also retouched the illustration of Part 1 in varying degrees.
Bound in 19th century tooled red velvet with light blue watered silk endpapers; gauffered gilt edges. HM 1104. 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
Coat of arms of the owner who added the Prayerbook in the late fifteenth century on f. 203: or a tree proper fructed or on a chief azure a rose gules between 2 leaves (?) in pale or. His name may have been "Julian, " as that saint is invoked in the suffrage on f. 210, and the initial "G " appears in the prayers, ff. 216, 220, 224; the prayer on f. 218v reads "...Sana me domine et libera me de isto languore B. et a presenti tribulatione G. ab omni infamia... " Acquired ca. 1830 by Sir John Hayford Thorold of Syston Park; his book plate and monogrammed label on the front pastedown; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 December 1884, lot 965 to Quaritch; in the Quaritch General Catalogue 6 (1887) n. 35711, and in that firm's Hand-list (1890) n. 11. The manuscript belonged to E. Dwight Church; his ex libris on the pastedown with "400 Eng " penned on the lower margin; in his Catalogue...of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 400 with a plate of f. 21. A pencilled note on f. ii calls the manuscript "Heures de la Rose, " using the name first applied in the 1887 Quaritch catalogue and taken up in the Church catalogue. Henry E. Huntington bought the Church collection in 1911.
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