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This Book of Hours of the Use of Paris was written for masculine use. It contains a calendar; the Gospel Lessons, the Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers; the Hours of the Virgin; the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and associated prayers; the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit; the Office of the Dead; and the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin and Seven Requests of Our Lord, in French. The texts are accompanied by eight miniatures, including a miniature of the Pentecost on folio 104r which, along with the text on that folio, is a modern reproduction intended to replace a missing leaf.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+165+i; 200 x 130 mm bound to 208 x 142 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2 (8), 3 (5, +1), 4-12 (8), 13 (10, +4, leaf in position 7 has been replaced), 14-20 (8), 21 (2); Catchwords: Cropped remnants of catchwords on lower right hand corners at folios: 41v, 49v, 57v, 89v, 97v, 107v, 115v, 123v, 131v, 139v, 155v
One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 101 x 64 mm
Gothic--textualis
Eight large miniatures, some of which appear to be retouched, with full borders: 13r, Saint John on Patmos; 26r, Annunciation; 82r, King David in Prayer; 100r, Crucifixion; 104r, Pentecost; 107v, Burial; 156r, Virgin and Child with Angels; 162v, The Trinity; red, blue, and gold decorated initials throughout and line filler throughout; folio 104 was inserted to replace a missing or damaged page; on this folio, the text and image were produced by a modern hand in the 19th or early 20th century, in imitation of the original
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.
Pencil notes on front pastedown: "Hours for Paris use, ca. 1470, written for use by a man," and "over 380 in./280 pages of illuminated letters/8 full-page miniatures/10 [full-page] borders"; stamped "Gift of Simon Gratz, ESQ., November 1925" in inner margin of fol. 2r; faint pencil notes on upper pastedown and facing flyleaf read "lhupin" (?)
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
Third quarter of the 15th century
Twentieth-century brown Morocco over wooden boards; gilt-tooled decoration; vellum pastedowns and flyleaves; gilt edges
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
Simon Gratz, presented by him to the Free Library in 1925
France
Third quarter of the 15th century
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
Simon Gratz, presented by him to the Free Library in 1925
This Book of Hours of the Use of Paris was written for masculine use. It contains a calendar; the Gospel Lessons, the Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers; the Hours of the Virgin; the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and associated prayers; the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit; the Office of the Dead; and the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin and Seven Requests of Our Lord, in French. The texts are accompanied by eight miniatures, including a miniature of the Pentecost on folio 104r which, along with the text on that folio, is a modern reproduction intended to replace a missing leaf.
Pencil notes on front pastedown: "Hours for Paris use, ca. 1470, written for use by a man," and "over 380 in./280 pages of illuminated letters/8 full-page miniatures/10 [full-page] borders"; stamped "Gift of Simon Gratz, ESQ., November 1925" in inner margin of fol. 2r; faint pencil notes on upper pastedown and facing flyleaf read "lhupin" (?)
Gothic--textualis
Eight large miniatures, some of which appear to be retouched, with full borders: 13r, Saint John on Patmos; 26r, Annunciation; 82r, King David in Prayer; 100r, Crucifixion; 104r, Pentecost; 107v, Burial; 156r, Virgin and Child with Angels; 162v, The Trinity; red, blue, and gold decorated initials throughout and line filler throughout; folio 104 was inserted to replace a missing or damaged page; on this folio, the text and image were produced by a modern hand in the 19th or early 20th century, in imitation of the original
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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