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Damaged illuminated book of hours with calendar including several feasts typical of Bourges (May 7, Translatio Sancti Guillelmi; May 20, Austregisilli episcopi; July 15, Liberatio Iherusalem; September 1, Lupi episcopi; September 19, Mariani monachi), Hours of the Virgin in the Use of Bourges, Brief Hours of the Cross, Brief Hours of the Holy Spirit, and the Office of the Dead. Multiple leaves missing, including probably seven large miniatures (Matins, Lauds, None, Compline in the Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms; Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Holy Spirit), with loss of text in almost every section. Illuminations that are not missing are severely rubbed and water-damaged.
Support: parchment; Extent: 165 leaves : 147 x 100 (86 x 60) mm bound to 153 x 113 mm; Foliation: Parchment, i (19th-century paper) + i (19th-century parchment) + 165 + i (19th-century paper); [i--xxii], 1-308; late 19th- or early 20th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Written in twelve long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.
Written in Gothic textualis semi-quadrata script, with versicles, responses, and antiphons written in a slightly smaller version of the script.
7 large arched miniatures with full foliate borders and three lines of text with a three-line illuminated initial on gold ground, all badly damaged (Nativity, p. 98; Annunciation to the Shepherds, p. 114; Presentation in the Temple, p. 125; Flight to Egypt, p. 139; Owner before Virgin and Child?, p. 210; Pietà, p. 222; Funeral with monks, p. 225); one full foliate border (p. 1); 1- and 2-line initials in gold on blue and pink ground and blue and pink line-fillers throughout; rubrication in red.
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Purchased together with Contre-partie du manuscrit de Lamothe, Ms. Codex 1870, University of Pennsylvania.
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 in France in the late 15th century.
Late 19th-century leather, gilt tooling; gilt spine title Manuscrit venant de la Ville de La Mothe; marbled endpapers.
Latin
Formerly owned by the DeGoix family in the 17th century, with inscriptions by Jean DeGoix (p. 144, partly legible, with reference to another possible owner, Jean Felix Dénie (?), and La Motte) and Jeanne DeGoix (p. 190-191).
Formerly owned by notary and amateur antiquarian Antoine Joseph Rérolle, Autun, Saône-et-Loire (inscription, p. ii), who bought it in the late 19th century from an elderly woman of Outremécourt, at which time it was already badly damaged by dust and mice and lacked its beginning, end, and initials that had been cut out (account in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870); he reassembled the remnants and had them rebound.
Formerly owned by G.A. Jansen op de Haar, 1982; purchased from antiques dealer Simone Comode, 19 rue Cocand, Autun (acquisition note in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870).
Sold at auction by Adams Amsterdam Auctions (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 19 June 2017, lot 180.
France
Written in France in the late 15th century.
Latin
Formerly owned by the DeGoix family in the 17th century, with inscriptions by Jean DeGoix
Formerly owned by notary and amateur antiquarian Antoine Joseph Rérolle, Autun, Saône-et-Loire
Formerly owned by G.A. Jansen op de Haar, 1982; purchased from antiques dealer Simone Comode, 19 rue Cocand, Autun
Sold at auction by Adams Amsterdam Auctions
Damaged illuminated book of hours with calendar including several feasts typical of Bourges (May 7, Translatio Sancti Guillelmi; May 20, Austregisilli episcopi; July 15, Liberatio Iherusalem; September 1, Lupi episcopi; September 19, Mariani monachi), Hours of the Virgin in the Use of Bourges, Brief Hours of the Cross, Brief Hours of the Holy Spirit, and the Office of the Dead. Multiple leaves missing, including probably seven large miniatures (Matins, Lauds, None, Compline in the Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms; Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Holy Spirit), with loss of text in almost every section. Illuminations that are not missing are severely rubbed and water-damaged.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Purchased together with Contre-partie du manuscrit de Lamothe, Ms. Codex 1870, University of Pennsylvania.
Written in Gothic textualis semi-quadrata script, with versicles, responses, and antiphons written in a slightly smaller version of the script.
7 large arched miniatures with full foliate borders and three lines of text with a three-line illuminated initial on gold ground, all badly damaged (Nativity, p. 98; Annunciation to the Shepherds, p. 114; Presentation in the Temple, p. 125; Flight to Egypt, p. 139; Owner before Virgin and Child?, p. 210; Pietà, p. 222; Funeral with monks, p. 225); one full foliate border (p. 1); 1- and 2-line initials in gold on blue and pink ground and blue and pink line-fillers 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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