Manuscripts
Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]
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- Description
- ff. 1-175v. [Book of hours, use of Paris]: ff. 1-12v: calendar in French; ff. 13-19v: pericopes of the Gospels [f. 20r-v blank]; ff. 21-76: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris [f. 76v, blank]; ff. 77-83v: prayers, many regarding the eucharist and a suffrage of Margaret [f. 84r-v blank]; ff. 85-102: penitential psalms and litany [f. 102v, blank]; ff. 103-110v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 111-117v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 118-125v: Obsecro te and O Intemerata (both with masculine forms) [f. 126r-v, blank]; ff. 127-170v: Office of the Dead, undetermined use. [ff. 171-175v, blank].
- Date
- [between 1440 and 1460]
- Call number
- mssHM 1099
- Provenance
- On ff. 1 (erased but legible) and 13, is the note in a rounded gothic hand: "Monasterii et Cellae Abbatis Septimi," which may refer to the Premonstratensians of Septfontaines near Reims. Owned by Brayton Ives; his sale, American Art Association, New York, 5 March 1891, n. 627. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 25 ; Cat. (1909) pp. 45-46 ; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2131 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

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