Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Havens hours, use uncertain

Other related names

• Abbé [Dourout], former owner
• Williams, Edward H., former owner
• Havens, Ida M., former owner
• Havens, W. Paul, Jr. (Walter Paul), 1911-1992, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n2001131317)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 30
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms30.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern France

Summary

This manuscript contains a Book of Hours written about 1450 in Northern France.

Notes

• Binding restored by J. MacDonald Co., Norwalk, Conn.
   
• All full-page miniatures missing; for each section, text breaks off or begins imperfectly
   

Extent

I+93+i; 204 x 146 mm bound to 212 x 157 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century tooled tan calf; spine replaced with modern conservation binding

Layout

Single column, fourteen lines, ruled in red ink, single vertical bounding lines, full across; written area: 100 x 73 mm

Decoration

Each leaf illuminated with side border in outer margin, the verso a mirror image of the recto; two- and one-line initials and line fillers throughout; some initials extending into top or bottom margin; rubrication in gold throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Written in Northern France about 1450. Early provenance unknown. Ownership note on fol. iv: "Abbé [Dourout]/ Curé deVer et/ [Lugne]. Bookplate of Edward H. Williams. Given to Bryn Mawr College by Dr. W. Paul Havens and Mrs. Ida Havens in 1981
   

Genres

• Books of hours

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Damage
• Book of Hours
• Illumination
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Hours of the Virgin, use uncertain
• fol. 43r — Office of the Cross
• fol. 46r — Office of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 50r — Obsecro te
• fol. 53r — Gospel of John
• fol. 55r — Penitential Psalms
• fol. 65v — Litany of the Saints
• fol. 68r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Edward H. Williams
• Inside front cover — Note in upper left corner: "restored by J. MacDonald Co., Norwalk, Conn."
• Flyleaf 1 recto — In pen: "Abbé [Dourout]/ Curé deVer et/ [Lugne]"
• fol. 75r — Border decoration cut out
• fol. 75v — Border decoration cut out
• Flyleaf 1 recto — In pen: "Abbé [Dourout]/ Curé deVer et/ [Lugne]"