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Description
ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ... Book of Hours written in the early sixteenth century in France, apparently destined for use in the area of Châlons-sur-Marne. Span folios: ff. 1-77v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶ 2⁶(-4) 3-5⁴ 6⁶ 7⁶(-5, after f. 33) 8⁶(-4, after f. 37; -6, after f. 38) 9⁶(-5, after f. 42) 10⁶(-6, after f. 48) 11-14⁶ 15⁴(+5, f. 77). Catchwords (ff. 15v and 23v) in Bâtarde script written vertically along the inner bounding line. Ruled space, 111 x 73 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in brown ink. Written in a gothic script in two sizes. Decoration: Eight large miniatures, above 5 lines of text, in arched compartments, with flesh of figures in a greenish tinge; outer border of multicolored acanthus leaves and black ivy spray vines with gold foliage. 5-line initials in white-patterned blue or pink on a ground of the other color with infilling of colored trilobe leaves set against a gold ground, and a gold bar forming an outer frame to the initial; 2-line initials in burnished gold with blue infilling and pink ground, or vice versa; 1-line initials alternate plain red and blue; jigsaw line fillers of both colors in the litany. Rubrics in red or, rarely, in blue. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009. 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 very worn blue velvet with 4 holes (for ties?) in the center and edge of both covers. HM 1265. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours France 16th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 16th century (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
The feminine form in the prayer on f. 76 suggests that the first owner was a woman. A note on the back pastedown identifies a sixteenth century owner as Margueritte Morelz. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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