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This is a fifteenth-century French book of hours, which includes the calendar in French, the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, the Litany of the Saints, the Gospel of John, and the Office of the Dead, all with lacunae throughout. There are three genealogical entries throughout the calendar in French in different hands below the text, suggesting previous ownership by the de Lys family and the Bonefant family.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+85+ii; 186 x 128 mm bound to 195 x 141 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; foliation before missing folios in pencil in lower left margin, recto; Collation: 1-3 (6), 4 (8, -2), 5 (8, -2 -3 -4), 6 (8, -1 -5), 7 (8, -1 -6), 8 (8, -2), 9 (8, -1), 10 (8, -7), 11 (8, -1 -6), 12-13 (8); Signatures: Quire signatures, lower right recto in modern pencil at fols. 13r, 19r, 26r, 43r, 57r, 70r, 78r; Catchwords: Catchwords are placed in the lower margin of the verso, just right of center, inside elaborate penwork scrolls or human profiles in brown ink; some partly trimmed, some absent
Seventeen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines and double upper and single lower horizontal bounding lines, all full across; remains of prickings on some leaves; written area: 110 x 75 mm
Gothic -- textualis
Larger illuminations and initials excised; two-line and one-line illuminated initials on a black-framed magenta and blue ground with white penline decoration, line fillers and, in the calendar, KL monograms in same style throughout; rubrication in red
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.
Stubs where pages with miniatures and decorations excised
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
15th century
Seventeenth-century leather, blind-tooled front and back, gold-tooled fleur-de-lis in four corners and gold-tooled medallion in center
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Written in France in the fifteenth century; provenance uncertain; three genealogical entries in calendar in different hands below the text; on fol. 4r: "le neuviesme avril mil sept cent un jay espouse ma femme Marie Rose de Lys fille et unique heriteuse de messire sebastien de Lys comte de Beause et de dame jeane de poysment contrat de mariage est raporte de jaunier notaire Royal a Biliers Nicolas Francois durand de Villegagner."; in another hand on fol. 5r: "Le 21 de may mil six cents septante et deux fut neé ma fille marie rose et fut nommée par mesire Jan du Boisgelin president a mortier et dame marie Despinose dame de fouesnel son aieuse maternelle."; on fol. 6r in the same hand: "Le sixiesme de juin mil six cents septante et quatre fut né mon fils Jan Baptiste Auguste de Lys, fut nomme par Mesire Jan Babtiste de poise et par Dame Marguerite de poyse dame de [ ] son oncle et sa tante a St. Sauveur de Rénnes"; and on fol. 10r in that hand: "le 14me octobre mil six cents septante j'espouse ma femme janne de poys fille aisnee de mesire Regnaud de pois et de marie despinose mon contrat de mariage est raporte de Bretin notaire royal a Rennes."; on fol. 85v: "Damoiselle Catherine fille de noble homme Michel Bonenfant sr. de la Brete et de Damoiselle roberde de Taillie son espouse fut née le xxviiie jour de Juillet lan M.V.cc xxviii. Laquelle espousa Noble homme Jean de Vauguelin Sr. d'hommay le penultime jour de Novembre M.V.cc Liii."; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1984 by Gertrude Leighton
France
15th century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Written in France in the fifteenth century; provenance uncertain; three genealogical entries in calendar in different hands below the text; on fol. 4r: "le neuviesme avril mil sept cent un jay espouse ma femme Marie Rose de Lys fille et unique heriteuse de messire sebastien de Lys comte de Beause et de dame jeane de poysment contrat de mariage est raporte de jaunier notaire Royal a Biliers Nicolas Francois durand de Villegagner."; in another hand on fol. 5r: "Le 21 de may mil six cents septante et deux fut neé ma fille marie rose et fut nommée par mesire Jan du Boisgelin president a mortier et dame marie Despinose dame de fouesnel son aieuse maternelle."; on fol. 6r in the same hand: "Le sixiesme de juin mil six cents septante et quatre fut né mon fils Jan Baptiste Auguste de Lys, fut nomme par Mesire Jan Babtiste de poise et par Dame Marguerite de poyse dame de [ ] son oncle et sa tante a St. Sauveur de Rénnes"; and on fol. 10r in that hand: "le 14me octobre mil six cents septante j'espouse ma femme janne de poys fille aisnee de mesire Regnaud de pois et de marie despinose mon contrat de mariage est raporte de Bretin notaire royal a Rennes."; on fol. 85v: "Damoiselle Catherine fille de noble homme Michel Bonenfant sr. de la Brete et de Damoiselle roberde de Taillie son espouse fut née le xxviiie jour de Juillet lan M.V.cc xxviii. Laquelle espousa Noble homme Jean de Vauguelin Sr. d'hommay le penultime jour de Novembre M.V.cc Liii."; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1984 by Gertrude Leighton
This is a fifteenth-century French book of hours, which includes the calendar in French, the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, the Litany of the Saints, the Gospel of John, and the Office of the Dead, all with lacunae throughout. There are three genealogical entries throughout the calendar in French in different hands below the text, suggesting previous ownership by the de Lys family and the Bonefant family.
Stubs where pages with miniatures and decorations excised
Gothic -- textualis
Larger illuminations and initials excised; two-line and one-line illuminated initials on a black-framed magenta and blue ground with white penline decoration, line fillers and, in the calendar, KL monograms in same style throughout; rubrication in red
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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