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Title

Book of hours :

Authors

• Catholic Church
• Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund

Other related names

• Dénie, Jean Felix, former owner
• Goix, Jean de, former owner
• Goix, Jeanne de, former owner
• Rérolle, Antoine Joseph, 1850-1924, former owner
• Jansen op de Haar, G.A, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1869
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977129795703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1007993409

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1475 and 1499

Place

France

Summary

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Purchased together with Contre-partie du manuscrit de Lamothe, Ms. Codex 1870, University of Pennsylvania.
   

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.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late 19th-century leather, gilt tooling; gilt spine title Manuscrit venant de la Ville de La Mothe; marbled endpapers.

Layout

Written in twelve long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.

Decoration

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.

Script

Written in Gothic textualis semi-quadrata script, with versicles, responses, and antiphons written in a slightly smaller version of the script.

Provenance

• 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.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Books of hours
• Illuminated manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• French
• Calendar
• Damage
• Miniature
• Missing leaves
• France
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Gospel lessons
• 17 — Matins
• 71 — Lauds (partial)
• 98 — Prime
• 114 — Terce (partial)
• 125 — Sext (partial)
• 133 — None (partial)
• 139 — Vespers (partial)
• 145 — Compline (partial)
• 155 — Penitential Psalms (partial)
• 189 — Litany and prayers (partial)
• 195 — Brief Hours of the Cross (partial)
• 203 — Brief Hours of the Holy Spirit
• 210 — Prayer, Obsecro te
• 222 — Prayer, Salve regina
• 225 — Office of the Dead (partial)

Decorations

• 1 — Illuminated initial I
• 1 — Illuminated border
• 98 — Large miniature, Nativity
• 98 — Illuminated initial D
• 98 — Illuminated border
• 114 — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• 114 — Illuminated initial D
• 114 — Illuminated border
• 125 — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• 125 — Illuminated initial D
• 125 — Illuminated border
• 139 — Large miniature, Flight to Egypt
• 139 — Illuminated initial D
• 139 — Illuminated border
• 210 — Large miniature, Owner before Virgin and Child?
• 210 — Illuminated initial O
• 210 — Illuminated border
• 222 — Large miniature, Pietà
• 222 — Illuminated initial S
• 222 — Illuminated border
• 225 — Large miniature, Funeral with monks
• 225 — Illuminated initial D
• 225 — Illuminated border