Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Franciscan Use

Other related names

• Honeyman, Robert B., former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/78623406)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 15
(Bethlehem, United States, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsch: Ms Hirsh 15
• Accession: 15o59

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin; Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Northeastern France(?) or Flanders(?)

Summary

This damaged Book of Hours was likely produced in Northeastern France or Flanders in the late fourteenth century or early fifteenth century. The manuscript begins with a Calendar, which is lacking its first and last months. The book contains the Hours of the Virgin for Franciscan Use, followed by the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit, the Penitential Psalms followed by a separate section containing the Litany, Prayers, and Collects (beginning lacking), and the Athanasian Creed followed directly by the Obsecro te. The book concludes with Suffrages (fols. 115r-121r), which include Saints Vedast and Eligius, and the O intemerata prayer added in a different hand.

Notes

• The O intemerata prayer, added after the end of the final suffrage on fol. 121r, and continuing to fol. 124v, is in a different hand
   
• Extensive birth notes in later hands, mostly in Dutch or Flemish, on fols. 1r-4v, 21v, and 22v; cancelled note on fol. 4v includes the date 1659; notes on fol. 21v includes the dates 1647, 1650, and 1669; note on fol. 22v from 1579; other notes considerably earlier in date
   
• Fol. 6 is severely trimmed along its outer edge
   

Extent

Ii+124+ii; 142 x 96 mm bound to 147 x 105 mm

Foliation

Unfoliated

Collation

1 (12, -1 -12), 2 (8), 3 (4), 4 (8), 5 (6, +1 +2), 6-7 (4), 8 (8, +1 +2), 9-11 (8), 12 (6), 13 (8), 14 (5, +1), 15-16 (10), 17 (9, +1)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century stamped brown calf, French; "HEURES, MSS. VÈLLIN" stamped on spine

Layout

One column of fourteen lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 83 x 54 mm

Decoration

Large illuminated initials and foliate borders at major text divisions; illuminated initials with foliate sprays at minor divisions; small illuminated initials throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Red bookplate, inside front cover: "Ex Libris Robert Honeyman IV" with shield and banner stating "Progredere ne Regredere"
   

Related resources

• Hirsch, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, PA: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), p. 27, no. 15.

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Book of Hours
• Illumination
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• Latin

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Ownership notes
• fol. 1r — Calendar (January and December lacking)
• fol. 11r — Hours of the Virgin, Franciscan Use
• fol. 66r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 71r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 84r — Seven Penitential Psalms
• fol. 97r — Litany, Prayers, and Collects (beginning lacking)
• fol. 106r — Athanasian Creed followed by Obsecro te
• fol. 107r — Athanasian Creed followed by Obsecro te
• fol. 116r — Suffrages, followed by O intemerata added in a different hand
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Ownership notes

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Robert B. Honeyman
• fol. 11r — Full foliate border
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 23r — Full foliate border
• fol. 23r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 37r — Full foliate border
• fol. 37r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 41r — Full foliate border
• fol. 41r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 45r — Full foliate border
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 49r — Full foliate border
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 53r — Full foliate border
• fol. 53r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 61r — Full foliate border
• fol. 61r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 66r — Full foliate border
• fol. 66r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 71r — Full foliate border
• fol. 71r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 75r — Illuminated initial D with foliage sprays
• fol. 76v — Illuminated initial D with foliage sprays
• fol. 78r — Illuminated initial D with foliage sprays
• fol. 79v — Illuminated initial D with foliage sprays
• fol. 82r — Illuminated initial A with foliage sprays
• fol. 84r — Full foliate border
• fol. 84r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 111r — Illuminated initial O with foliage sprays
• fol. 116r — Illuminated initial O with foliage sprays