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This book of hours was made in northeastern France following the Use of Toul in the Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead, with Infancy Cycle miniatures for the Hours of the Virgin. The calendar, brief Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit precede the Hours of the Virgin, with the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Office of the Dead following, along with various prayers in Latin and French. The usual Marian prayer O intemerata and Gospel readings from Matthew, Mark, and Luke are not present. A bifolium in a later hand (circa 1500) from another manuscript with suffrages to Saints Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and Peter and Paul (fol. 123r-124r) is at the end of the volume.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+124+ii; 112 x 75 mm bound to 200 x 145 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation [1-124] in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2-8 (8), 9 (6), 10-15 (8), 16 (2)
Written in seventeen long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink; written area: 112 x 72 mm
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Twelve arched miniatures: above five lines of text with three- or four-line initials on burnished gold with full foliate and floral borders of acanthus and ivy leaves (Crucifixion, fol. 13r; Pentecost, fol. 16r; Annunciation, fol. 19r; Visitation, fol. 28v; Nativity, fol. 37v; Annunciation to the shepherds, fol. 42v; Adoration of the Magi, fol. 46r; Presentation in the Temple, fol. 49v; flight into Egypt, fol. 53r; Massacre of the Innocents, fol. 49r; King David praying to God with harp on the ground, fol. 75r; raising of Lazarus, fol. 90r); two-line initials in gold on blue and pink and one-line initials alternating between gold with purple penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; geometric line endings in blue, pink and gold in Litany (fols. 84v-87r)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
In Latin, with calendar, most rubrics, and a few accessory texts (fols. 71r-73v, 74r-74v) in Middle French
Nineteenth-century parchment flyleaves
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
France
Written and illuminated in the Lorraine or Champagne regions of northeastern France, circa 1450-1475, with later notes added circa 1500; second half 15th century
Nineteenth-century grosgrain morocco over wooden boards, covers decorated with blind-stamped frame; gilt fleurons on covers and spine, edges gilt, probably English (Les Enluminures)
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Formerly owned by Sampson Hodgkinson; loaned by him to the National Exhibition of Works of Art held in Leeds in 1868, no. 586 (label from exhibition on last flyleaf); sold at auction at the Hôtel Drouot (Roger Glandaz, auctioneer), 2 June 1933, lot 34 (pencil note, inside lower cover); purchased by "GV" at a sale on 14 December 1967 (pencil note, inside lower cover); formerly owned by Pierre Bosviel (bookplate, inside upper cover); purchased by Temple University from Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2010
France
Written and illuminated in the Lorraine or Champagne regions of northeastern France, circa 1450-1475, with later notes added circa 1500; second half 15th century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Formerly owned by Sampson Hodgkinson; loaned by him to the National Exhibition of Works of Art held in Leeds in 1868, no. 586
This book of hours was made in northeastern France following the Use of Toul in the Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead, with Infancy Cycle miniatures for the Hours of the Virgin. The calendar, brief Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit precede the Hours of the Virgin, with the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Office of the Dead following, along with various prayers in Latin and French. The usual Marian prayer O intemerata and Gospel readings from Matthew, Mark, and Luke are not present. A bifolium in a later hand (circa 1500) from another manuscript with suffrages to Saints Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and Peter and Paul (fol. 123r-124r) is at the end of the volume.
In Latin, with calendar, most rubrics, and a few accessory texts (fols. 71r-73v, 74r-74v) in Middle French
Nineteenth-century parchment flyleaves
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Twelve arched miniatures: above five lines of text with three- or four-line initials on burnished gold with full foliate and floral borders of acanthus and ivy leaves (Crucifixion, fol. 13r; Pentecost, fol. 16r; Annunciation, fol. 19r; Visitation, fol. 28v; Nativity, fol. 37v; Annunciation to the shepherds, fol. 42v; Adoration of the Magi, fol. 46r; Presentation in the Temple, fol. 49v; flight into Egypt, fol. 53r; Massacre of the Innocents, fol. 49r; King David praying to God with harp on the ground, fol. 75r; raising of Lazarus, fol. 90r); two-line initials in gold on blue and pink and one-line initials alternating between gold with purple penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; geometric line endings in blue, pink and gold in Litany (fols. 84v-87r)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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