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This manuscript is a Book of Hours made for the Use of Paris, containing a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), lessons from the Gospels (fols. 13r-18v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 19r-72v), the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and prayers (fols. 73r-92r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 92v-95v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 96r-98r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 98v-127v), prayers including Obsecto te and O intemerata and suffrages (fols. 127v-142v), the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 143r-148r), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord in French (fols. 148v-151r). Large miniatures mark most of the divisions between and within these texts. Their subjects are the Annunciation (fol. 19r), the Visitation (fol. 40v), the Nativity (50v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 55v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 59r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 62v), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 66r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 69r), King David in Prayer (fol. 73r), the Crucifixion (fol. 92v), Pentecost (fol. 96r), a funeral (fol. 98v), the Virgin and Child (fol. 143r), and the risen Christ seated on a rainbow (fol. 148v). These miniatures are surrounded by partial bar borders and full ivy leaf borders, or foliate borders as on fols. 19r and 73r. Partial ivy leaf borders also spring from decorated initials throughout the manuscript. The style and certain features of the miniatures suggest an artist working in the circle of the Boucicaut Master, who was active in Paris in the first decades of the fifteenth century.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+152+iii; 164 x 120 mm bound to 177 x 132 mm; Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil, top right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2 (10), 3-8 (8), 9 (6), 10-19 (8)
One column of sixteen lines, frame ruled in red plummet; written area: 106 x 62 mm
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Capitals in red, blue, and burnished gold with marginal floral sprays issuing from the more important initials; fourteen large miniatures with borders of ivy leaf pattern or scroll work
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Erasure in last line of fol. 134v to correct erroneous rubric
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Paris, France
Possibly made for use in Brittany (possibly Quimper, according to label on clamshell box), feast of Saint Ivo in calendar (May 19, fol. 5v) and Saint Corentine in litany (fol. 69r); circa 1420
Black morocco, gilt edges, seventeenth- or eighteenth-century, possibly Dutch or German; modern red slipcase and clamshell box "Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis cum Calendario ad usum Quimper c. 1450"
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Gille François Mangan (ownership inscription on fol. 152v: "Ce Livre appartien à Gille François Mangan, 1536"); Montagu George Knight of Chawton (bookplate on inside front cover); Maggs Bros., London (Books on Art and Allied Subjects, 1923, p. 257, no. 1125; unidentified catalogue clipping with similar text in front of first upper flyleaf); Philip S. Collins; Mary Schell Collins
Paris, France
Possibly made for use in Brittany (possibly Quimper, according to label on clamshell box), feast of Saint Ivo in calendar (May 19, fol. 5v) and Saint Corentine in litany (fol. 69r); circa 1420
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Gille François Mangan
This manuscript is a Book of Hours made for the Use of Paris, containing a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), lessons from the Gospels (fols. 13r-18v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 19r-72v), the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and prayers (fols. 73r-92r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 92v-95v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 96r-98r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 98v-127v), prayers including Obsecto te and O intemerata and suffrages (fols. 127v-142v), the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 143r-148r), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord in French (fols. 148v-151r). Large miniatures mark most of the divisions between and within these texts. Their subjects are the Annunciation (fol. 19r), the Visitation (fol. 40v), the Nativity (50v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 55v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 59r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 62v), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 66r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 69r), King David in Prayer (fol. 73r), the Crucifixion (fol. 92v), Pentecost (fol. 96r), a funeral (fol. 98v), the Virgin and Child (fol. 143r), and the risen Christ seated on a rainbow (fol. 148v). These miniatures are surrounded by partial bar borders and full ivy leaf borders, or foliate borders as on fols. 19r and 73r. Partial ivy leaf borders also spring from decorated initials throughout the manuscript. The style and certain features of the miniatures suggest an artist working in the circle of the Boucicaut Master, who was active in Paris in the first decades of the fifteenth century.
Erasure in last line of fol. 134v to correct erroneous rubric
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Capitals in red, blue, and burnished gold with marginal floral sprays issuing from the more important initials; fourteen large miniatures with borders of ivy leaf pattern or scroll work
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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