This Book of Hours was made in Paris around the year 1470 and has been linked to the workshop of Maître François (fl. 1462-1480). It contains a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v); Gospel Lessons (fols. 13r-19v); Obescro te and O intemerata (fols. 19v-27v); the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Paris (fols. 29r-102v); the Hours of the Cross (fols. 103r-112r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 112v-119v); the Penitential Psalms followed by a litany and prayers (fols. 121r-138v); the Office of the Dead, lacking its beginning and presumably a miniature (fols. 139r-189r); the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 189v-195v), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord followed by various prayers and suffrages in both French and Latin, including a prayer ("A Royne qui fustes mise et assise...") attributed to Guillaume Alexis (fols. 196r-217v). The Gospel Lessons are decorated with a large miniature of Saint John the Evangelist (fol. 13r), and small miniatures of the other three evangelists (fols. 15r, 16v, and 18v). The remaining twelve large miniatures show the Annunciation (fol. 29r), the Visitation (fol. 55v), the Nativity (fol. 69v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 74r), the Adoration of the Magi (fols. 79r), the Presentation in the Temple (fols. 84r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 89r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 96v), the Crucifixion (fol. 103r), Pentecost (fol. 112v), King David in Prayer (fol. 121r), and the Trinity (fol. 196r).
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+217+i; 162 x 118 mm bound to 172 x 130 mm; Foliation: Foliated, pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2-14 (8), 15 (12), 16 (8), 17 (8, -3), 18-26 (8), 27 (2); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords, contemporary ink, lower right verso: 20v, 36v, 44v, 52v, 60v, 68v, 76v, 84v, 92v, 100v, 108v, 116v, 128v, 136v, 143v, 151v, 159v, 167v, 175v, 183v, 191v
Single column of eighteen lines; frame ruled; written area: 77 x 46 mm
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Red, blue, and gold initials and line-fillers throughout; partial bar borders and partial spray borders on almost every page; three small miniatures with three-quarter spray borders; thirteen large miniatures with full spray borders
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.
Prayer beginning "O Royne qui fustes mise et assise..." on fols. 212r-217v attributed to Guillaume Alexis
Paris, France
Circa 1470
Black morocco, gilt edges, eighteenth century; clasps; in a faded green twentieth-century slipcase; stamped on spine "LIVRE D'HEURES FRANÇAIS, SÆC XV, S. S. WHITE III"
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Henry White (Sotheby's, London, 21 April 1902, lot 1121); George H. Earle Jr.; White Collection
Paris, France
Circa 1470
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Henry White
This Book of Hours was made in Paris around the year 1470 and has been linked to the workshop of Maître François (fl. 1462-1480). It contains a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v); Gospel Lessons (fols. 13r-19v); Obescro te and O intemerata (fols. 19v-27v); the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Paris (fols. 29r-102v); the Hours of the Cross (fols. 103r-112r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 112v-119v); the Penitential Psalms followed by a litany and prayers (fols. 121r-138v); the Office of the Dead, lacking its beginning and presumably a miniature (fols. 139r-189r); the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 189v-195v), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord followed by various prayers and suffrages in both French and Latin, including a prayer ("A Royne qui fustes mise et assise...") attributed to Guillaume Alexis (fols. 196r-217v). The Gospel Lessons are decorated with a large miniature of Saint John the Evangelist (fol. 13r), and small miniatures of the other three evangelists (fols. 15r, 16v, and 18v). The remaining twelve large miniatures show the Annunciation (fol. 29r), the Visitation (fol. 55v), the Nativity (fol. 69v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 74r), the Adoration of the Magi (fols. 79r), the Presentation in the Temple (fols. 84r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 89r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 96v), the Crucifixion (fol. 103r), Pentecost (fol. 112v), King David in Prayer (fol. 121r), and the Trinity (fol. 196r).
Prayer beginning "O Royne qui fustes mise et assise..." on fols. 212r-217v attributed to Guillaume Alexis
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Red, blue, and gold initials and line-fillers throughout; partial bar borders and partial spray borders on almost every page; three small miniatures with three-quarter spray borders; thirteen large miniatures with full spray borders
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.
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