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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Duprès, Marguerite, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 17
(Bethlehem, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsch: MS Hirsh 17
• Accession: 23454
• deRicci: 7

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Tours?, France

Summary

This Book of Hours for the Use of Rome was most likley produced in Tours in the decades around the year 1500. It contains a calendar with numerous Tours saints (fols. 1r-6v), followed by the Gospel Lessons, Obsecro te, and O intemerata (fols. 7r-17r). The central section is composed of the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 19r-86v), with the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit intercalated (these begin on fols. 42r and 43v respectively). The four folios that contain readings for Prime, with an introductory miniature of the Nativity, have been misbound at the end of the Hours (fols. 83r-86v). The following sections consist of the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 87r-103r) and the Office of the Dead followed immediately by the Suffrages (fols. 103v-14v). The Suffrages consist of prayers to the Trinity, and to Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, James, Stephen, Lawrence, Christopher, Sebastian, Anne, and Mary Magdalene. The final four folios are ruled but blank. The miniatures are of a type derived from Jean Bourdichon but with a drier, more angular style typical of his imitators. They include a large miniature of John the Evangelist (fol. 7r), followed by five smaller vignettes for the remaining Evangelists and the two Marian prayers (fols. 8v, 10r, 11r, 12r, and 15r); miniatures for the eight hours of the Virgin and the intercalated Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit (found between fols. 19r and 86v); a miniature of David and Goliath for the Penitential Psalms (fol. 87r), and a Burial Scene for the Office of the Dead (fol. 103v). A sixteenth-century ownership inscription on the verso of the manuscript's penultimate flyleaf mentions an early female owner, Marguerite Duprès.

Notes

• Flyleaves are old parchment, possibly original
   
• Calendar is in Bâtarde script
   

Extent

Iii+146+iii; 202 x 135 mm bound to 213 x 140 mm

Foliation

Unfoliated

Collation

1 (6), 2 (8), 3 (4), 4-6 (8), 7 (4), 8-11 (8), 12 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4), 13 (4), 14-20 (8), 21 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4)

Signatures

Modern signature numbers in pencil, lower left recto at fols.: 7r, 15r, 19r, 27r, 35r, 43r, 47r, 55r, 63r, 71r, 79r, 83r, 87r, 95r, 103r, 111r, 119r, 127r, and 135r

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Original downward-facing catchwords in lower right corner at fols.: 26v, 34v, 42v, 46v, 54v, 62v, 70v, 94v, 102, 110v, 118v, 126v, and 134v

Binding

Modern red velvet with parchment endpapers

Layout

One columns of twenty lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 120 x 65 mm

Decoration

Thirteen large miniatures and five small miniatures; full foliate borders with gold and brown geometric backgrounds surrounding each large miniature; three-sided foliate borders with gold and brown geometric backgrounds surrounding each small miniature; illuminated initials with leaf sprays and line fillers throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Belonged (XVIth c.) to Marguerite Duprès (her inscription, verso of penultimate flyleaf); Benart, L.; purchased by Lehigh University (8 September 1881) from L. Benart, of Saint-Denis, and Mallet, Paris
   

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, Lehaigh University, 1970), p. 28, no. 17.

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Book of Hours
• Illumination
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• 16th century

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 7r — Gospel Lessons, Obsecro te, and O intemerata
• fol. 19r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome, with Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit intercalated, and Prime bound out of order at the end
• fol. 87r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 103v — Office of the Dead followed by Suffrages

Decorations

• fol. 7r — Large miniature, Saint John on Patmos
• fol. 7r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 8v — Small miniature, Saint Luke
• fol. 8v — Three-sided foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 8v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 10r — Small miniature, Saint Matthew
• fol. 10r — Three-sided foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 11r — Small miniature, Saint Mark
• fol. 11r — Three-sided foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 12r — Small miniature, Virgin in Prayer
• fol. 12r — Three-sided foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 15r — Small miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 15r — Three-sided foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 19r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 19r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 19r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 33v — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 33v — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 33v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 42r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 42r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 42r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 43v — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 43v — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 43v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 46r — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 46r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 46r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 51r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 51r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 51r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 56r — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 56r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 56r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 61r — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 61r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 68v — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 68v — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 83r — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 83r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 83r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 87r — Large miniature, David and Goliath
• fol. 87r — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 87r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 103v — Large miniature, Burial Scene
• fol. 103v — Full foliate border with gold and brown geometric backgrounds
• fol. 103v — Decorated initial D