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Title

Lawrence hours, use of Cambrai

Other related names

• Lawrence, Marion, 1901-, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n00077057)
• Grobe, Elizabeth M., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 24
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms24.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Dutch, Flemish; Dutch, Flemish; German

Origin

Place

French Flanders region of Valenciennes-Mons, France

Summary

This is a French book of hours written about 1450. Although the text itself is complete, several leaves have been removed, probably containing illuminations, and possibly, in quire XVI, additional suffrages. The rest of the text contains: a Calendar from the region of Valenciennes-Mons, in French; Prayers and Psalms; the Ordinary of the Mass; the Hours of the Virgin; the Office of the Holy Cross; the Office of the Holy Spirit; a Suffrage to St. Barbara; the Penitential Psalms and Litany; the Office of the Dead; and the Fifteen joys of the Virgin. There are three- to four-line illuminated initials and full borders on four sides containing drolleries marking the beginnings to major sections. The leaves following fol. 89r, with the exception of f. 118r and 180r, are considerably less ornate and complex than the earlier pages. There are one- and two-line illuminated initials, KL monograms in the calendar, line fillers, and red rubrication throughout. The text is rubbed in several places and there is some brown staining, which mars the text or border decoration in places. There are some marks that indicate the past presence of pilgrimage stamps. The binding appears to be original to the text.

Extent

V+187+ii; 200 x 134 mm bound to 223 x 155 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (8), 2 (4), 3-11 (8), 12 (4), 13-15 (8), 16 (8, -1 -2 -8), 17-20 (8), 21 (8, -8), 22-23 (8), 24 (8, -8), 25 (8)

Signatures

Remains of signatures on some quires

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

About half the quires with catchwords, placed horizontally in lower center margin, in different styles

Binding

Original fifteenth-century blind-tooled leather over chamfered wooden boards, silver quatrefoil clasps on front hold leather and ribbon straps, lower clasp depicts Saint Christopher, upper clasp (possibly) Saint George; edges gilt; rebacked

Layout

Single column, thirteen lines, ruled with much variation between quires: some ruled in dark red ink, some bright red and some brown; variation also in bounding lines from double vertical and horizontal lines full across to double vertical and single horizontal to both framing lines single; remains of prickings on some quires; written area: 120 x 80 mm

Calendar five columns (fourth empty), seventeen lines, ruled with single horizontal and vertical bounding lines

Decoration

Three- to four-line illuminated initials marking beginnings to major sections; full borders on four sides containing drolleries beginning major sections; one- and two-line illuminated initials, KL monograms in the calendar, line fillers, and red rubrication throughout; text rubbed in several places, some brown staining mars text or border decoration in places; some marks indicating the past presence of pilgrimage stamps

Script

Gothic -- textualis

Genres

• Books of hours

Keywords

• 15th century
• Book of Hours
• Flanders
• French
• Illumination

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar from the region of Valenciennes-Mons, in French
• fol. 13r — Prayers and Psalms
• fol. 16v — Ordinary of the Mass
• fol. 21r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 89r — Office of the Holy Cross
• fol. 105r — Office of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 117r — Suffrage to St. Barbara
• fol. 118r — Penitential Psalms and Litany
• fol. 142r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 180r — Fifteen joys of the Virgin

Decorations

• Inside front cover — In pen: "MSS. 22."
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Suffrage to St. Quentin, in a later hand, in French, with initials lacking: "[E]gregie cristi martir quintine suscipe preces..."
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Flyleaf 2r-3r, thirty-seven lines of text, in a later hand, in Dutch
• fol. 13r — Three-line illuminated initial P
• fol. 13r — Border on four sides
• fol. 16v — Three-line illuminated initial E
• fol. 16v — Border on four sides
• fol. 21r — Four-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 21r — Border on four sides
• fol. 46v — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 46v — Border of four sides
• fol. 58v — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 58v — Border on four sides
• fol. 63r — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 63r — Border on four sides
• fol. 67v — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 67v — Border on four sides
• fol. 71v — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 71v — Border on four sides
• fol. 75v — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 75v — Border on four sides
• fol. 82v — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 82v — Border on four sides
• fol. 89r — Four-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 89r — Border on four sides
• fol. 91r — Border on four sides
• fol. 91r — Two-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 93r — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 93r — Border on four sides
• fol. 95r — Three-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 95r — Border on four sides
• fol. 97r — Border on four sides
• fol. 97r — Two-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 99v — Four-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 99v — Border on four sides
• fol. 101v — Three-line illuminated initial C
• fol. 101v — Border on four sides
• fol. 104r — Note in pen
• fol. 105r — Four-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 105r — Border on four sides
• fol. 117r — Three-line illuminated initial O
• fol. 117r — Border on four sides
• fol. 118r — Four-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 118r — Border on four sides
• fol. 134r — Note in pencil in lower margin in center in German: "Saint-Eligius Bitten Sie mir zu helfen"
• fol. 142r — Four-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 142r — Border on four sides
• fol. 180r — Four-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 180r — Border on four sides
• Spine — Shelf mark on spine: "22"