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Title

Book of Hours, Use of Noyon

Other related names

• Cinot, Jeanne, former owner
• Le Camus, Madeleine, former owner
• André Scotte, former owner
• Paque, Jean-Marie Clancy (?), former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MSS 95, Item 31
(Newark, DE, United States, University of Delaware Library, Scientific and Humanities Manuscript Collection (University of Delaware Library))

Alternate identifiers

• http://delcat.worldcat.org/oclc/229896841

Publisher

University of Delaware Library

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Amiens?, France

Summary

This Book of Hours of the use of Noyon, produced at the end of the fifteenth century, contains ten large miniatures, as well as five small inset miniatures and an historiated initial illustrating the Passion of Christ. The style of the illumination suggests that this manuscript was produced in Amiens. The text is for a patron in Picardy, most likely one from Noyon: the Use conforms to those in other books known to be from Noyon, and the Litany includes Saint Médard (fol. 77r), who translated his see to Noyon from Vermand in 531. The book begins with a series of unnumbered flyleaves integral to the book block, which contain an rhyming original ownership inscription in French and a rhyming couplet about health and money, as well as the ownership inscriptions of subsequent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French owners. The book begins with a calendar, followed by the Gospel Lessons, which are introduced with a miniature of Saint John on Patmos (fol. 16r). The Passion according to Saint John occurs next. It is prefaced with a large miniature of the Agony in the Garden (fol. 21r), and is punctuated by smaller miniatures showing: Christ with Apostles and Soldiers (fol. 20r); the Arrest of Christ (the unique historiated initial, fol. 23r); Christ before Pilate (fol. 24v); the Flagellation (fol. 25r); and the Crucifixion (fol. 25v). The Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers occur next, prior to the Hours of the Virgin, which is illustrated with miniatures of the Annunciation (fol. 35r); Visitation (fol. 42r); Nativity (fol. 49r); Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 52v); Adoration of the Magi (fol. 55r); and Flight into Egypt (fol. 60v). Atypically, there are no miniatures for Nones and Compline, and the text of the Hours of the Virgin runs continuously, without page breaks for the beginning of each Hour. The Penitential Psalms are introduced by a miniature of the penitent King David (fol. 68v) and the Office of the Dead is introduced by a miniature depicting the Raising of Lazarus. The final section of the book, which is unillustrated, is comprised of the Seven Prayers of Saint Gregory followed by two Prayers of Pope Leo, the Seven Joys of the Virgin, a prayer to the Five Feasts of the Virgin, the Stabat Mater, and the "O illustrissima et excellentissima..." prayer to the Virgin.

Notes

• Three unnumbered parchment leaves following the four upper paper flyleaves are integral to the first quire; four unnumbered folios (the first two ruled but blank) follow fol. 123 and precede the three lower paper flyleaves
   
• Inscription on unnumbered recto i: "Je suis à Jenne fille Jehan Cinot, vous priant nullement m'embler, En me rendant pairay le sot, car sans heures ne puys dieu prier" and "Saincté sans argent, c'est demy maladie; Argent sans saincté, c'est pire la moitié"
   
• Inscription on unnumbered recto i: "Ces heures apartiennent à Madelaine, Camuce lesquellees m'ont esté donnée, par mon père ce sixième jour d'octobre, 1615, 1615"
   
• Inscription on unnumbered recto ii: "Ces heures Appartiennent A, André Scotte. Lesquelles m'ont, Esté Donnez par Damoiselle, magdelaine le camus ma mère, Le jour de tous les saincts, 1657"
   
• Inscription on unnumbered recto iii: "Ce livre apartient, à Jean Marie Paque., M. Jean Haude, Boulogne sur mer; Ce livre apartient, à Jean Marie Paque, à Boulogne"
   

Extent

Iiii+130+iii; 176 x 117 mm bound to 182 x 127 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (2), 3-4 (6), 5-18 (8), 19 (2)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Original downward-facing catchwords in lower right margin at fols.: 69v; 101v; and 109v

Binding

Nineteenth-century leather binding by Hans Asper with working metal clasp; "LIVRE D"HEURES" stamped in gold on spine; fitted case

Layout

One column of twenty lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 93 x 62 mm

Decoration

Ten large miniatures with full borders on brown or liquid gold grounds with foliage, bird and animal motifs; six nine-to-sixteenth-line historiated initials with illumination, depicting the Passion; eleven three-to-seven-line historiated initials with illumination; one- two-, five- and nine-line illuminated initials throughout; miniatures executed by two artists (as per Sotheby's 2006 catalogue entry: "The illumination of this manuscript is by two distinct artists. The first, who painted the miniatures on fols.14v and 19r, is characterized by the rotund, oval shaped faces with pale blue skin tones which he gives his figures, and his method of building texture with numerous single-hair brush strokes. The borders which accompany these are in the same style, and the initials are identical to the 9-line initials in the main text at fols. 15v, 16v, 18r, 116r, 117r, 118r, 119v, 122v. The second artist, who painted the miniatures on fols.33r, 40r, 47r, 50v, 53r, 59v, 66v and 83r, appears to have been more accomplished. He is more skilled in his approach to detail, in particular the faces of his figures, the drapery, and the backgrounds, and used a different technique of building texture, through a few wide brush strokes of grey to pick out shadows. He is probably also the artist of the miniatures for the Passion sequence and the initials of the Prayers for the Virgin and the other texts at end of volume. The initials which accompany his miniatures strongly suggest that he was active in Amiens.")

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Contemporary rhyming ownership inscription in French, naming Jeanne, daughter of Jean Cinot, on unnumbered recto i; inscription marking gift of book to Madeleine Camuce (?) by her father on 6 October 1615 on unnumbered recto i; ownership inscription of André Scotte marking gift of book by his mother Madeleine Le Camus on All Saints' Day, 1657 on unnumbered recto ii (Scotte can be identified with canon André Scotte de Velinghen, confessor and superior of the Ursulines of Boulogne, who died in 1703); ownership inscription of Jean Marie Paque of Boulogne in a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand on unnumbered recto iii; modern stock code on upper flyleaf 2; twentieth-century ownership inscription naming "Mr. Clancy" on upper flyleaf 2; Swann Galleries, New York, 2 April 1987, No. 1432: Rare books, cat. 112; Sotheby's, London, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 5 December 2006, lot 45; Phillip J. Pirages, Catalogue 60, 2011, cat. 444
   

Related resources

• Swann Galleries, No. 1432: Rare books, New York, 2 April 1987, cat. 112
• Sotheby's, London, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 5 December 2006, lot 45 (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2006/western-manuscripts-l06241/lot.45.html)
• Phillip J. Pirages, Catalogue 60, 2011, cat. 444
• Jean-Luc Deuffic, Heures manuscrites identifiées (https://sites.google.com/site/heuresbookofhours/c)
• Meeting Jeanne: A medieval life illuminated (http://www1.udel.edu/researchmagazine/issue/vol3_no2/bookofhours.html)

Keywords

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

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Ownership inscription and stock code
• Unnumbered recto i — Ownership inscription, Jeanne Cinot
• Unnumbered recto i — Ownership inscription, Madeleine Camus
• Unnumbered recto ii — Ownership inscription, André Scotte
• Unnumbered recto iii — Ownership inscription, Jean-Marie Paque
• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 14r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 19r — Passion according to John
• fol. 27v — Obsecro te
• fol. 30r — O intemerata
• fol. 33r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Noyon
• fol. 66v — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 83r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 116r — Seven Prayers of Saint Gregory followed by two Prayers of Pope Leo
• fol. 118r — Seven Joys of the Virgin
• fol. 119v — Prayer to the Five Feasts of the Virgin
• fol. 120v — Prayer to the Virgin, "Stabat Mater"
• fol. 122v — Prayer to the Virgin, "O illustrissima et excellentissima..."
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Ownership inscription and stock code

Decorations

• fol. 14r — Large miniature, Saint John on Patmos
• fol. 14r — Full foliate border with moth and fly
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 15v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 16v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 18r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 19r — Large miniature, Agony in the Garden
• fol. 19r — Full foliate border with bird and rabbit
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 20r — Small miniature, Christ with the Apostles and Soldiers
• fol. 23r — Historiated initial T, Arrest of Christ
• fol. 24v — Small miniature, Christ before Pilate
• fol. 25r — Small miniature, Flagellation
• fol. 25v — Small miniature, Crucifixion with John and Mary
• fol. 26v — Small miniature, Deposition
• fol. 27v — illuminated initial O
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 33r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 33r — Full panel boder with peacock and drollery
• fol. 33r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 39v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 39v — Partial foliate Border with fleur-de-lis
• fol. 40r — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 40r — Full foliate border with bird and drollery
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 47r — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 47r — Full panel border
• fol. 47r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 50v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 50v — Full foliate border with monkey and drollery
• fol. 50v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 53r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 53r — Full foliate border with hearts, bird, and drollery
• fol. 53r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 55v — Partial foliate border
• fol. 55v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 58v — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 58v — Full foliate border with bird and drollery
• fol. 58v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 63v — Partial panel border
• fol. 63v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 66v — Large miniature, King David
• fol. 66v — Full panel border with bird
• fol. 66v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 83r — Large miniature, Raising of Lazarus
• fol. 83r — Full panel border with bird
• fol. 83r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 116r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 117r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 118r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 119v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 120v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 122v — Illuminated initial O