Accession number
MS M.865
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.865).
Created
France, perhaps Brittany, ca. 1425
Binding
Formerly in 18th-century French calf; rebound in 1953 by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Walton Martin, Dec. 11, 1952.
Description
190 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 206 x 153 mm
Provenance
Lareau family, Lyons (18th century); Mrs. Walton Martin.
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Rome; calendar in French, composite; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Brittany, ca. 1425.
Decoration: 16 large miniatures.
Artist: unidentified artist.
Retrieved from the 18th-century binding in which this manuscript was formerly bound were five leaves from a 17th- or 18th-century Cistercian antiphonary that was printed in red and black on heavy paper; printed at the foot of one of the cuttings is the inscription: Psalter Cist--Cf PML files.
Musical notation in the binding sheets: 4-line staves and square notes.
Decoration: 16 large miniatures.
Artist: unidentified artist.
Retrieved from the 18th-century binding in which this manuscript was formerly bound were five leaves from a 17th- or 18th-century Cistercian antiphonary that was printed in red and black on heavy paper; printed at the foot of one of the cuttings is the inscription: Psalter Cist--Cf PML files.
Musical notation in the binding sheets: 4-line staves and square notes.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-19v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 19v-23v : Obsecro te -- fols. 23v-27v: O intemerata -- fols. 27v-28r: Hymn, Salve regina misericor -- fols. 28v: Blank -- fols. 29r-95r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 95r-102r: Advent Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 116v-122v: Litany -- fols. 123r-126r: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 126v-129v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 130r-180r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 180r-190r: Various prayers in later hands -- fol. 190v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Resources
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Classification
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