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Book of hours, use of Paris[?] : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-150v. [Book of Hours; portions of the text missing due to lost leaves, and other sections misbound]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar; ff. 13-20v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 21-25v, 30-44v, 49-54v, 26-27v, 28-29v, 55-62v: Hours of the Virgin, possibly of the use of Paris; ff. 63-74v: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and another prayer; ff. 75-90v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 91-92v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 93-94v, 45-48v, 95-97v: Prayers in French; ff. 98-145: Office of the Dead; ff. 145v-150v: Prayer in French and in Latin, with a suffrage of Martin added.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1400 and 1450]
Call number: mssHM 1138
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Obtained from Sessler by Henry E. Huntington at an unknown date.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 137 x 185 mm
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-165v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French alternating red and blue with major feasts in gold; ff. 13-25v: Pericopes of the Gospels, with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata; ff. 26-46v: House of the Virgin, use of Paris; misbound and should be read as follows: 26-46v and 78r-v, matins, with the weekly variations of the psalms set into the text before the lessons; ff. 79-101, lauds through sext; ff. 101v, 105, 104, 102, none; ff. 103, 108, 109, 107, 106, 47, vespers; ff. 48-52 [f. 52v, ruled, but blank], compline; ff. 53-70v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 71-74: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 74v-77: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 77v: Office of the Dead, misbound and should be read as follows: ff. 77v, 112, 111, 110, 113, 114, 117, 116, 115, 118-150; ff. 150v-157: Suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Sebastian, Nicholas, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Genevieve; f. 157v, ruled, but blank; ff. 158-165v: Prayers in French.

mssHM 1133

Book of Hours, use of St. Quentin : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-78v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-32v: Hours of the Virgin presumably of the use of St. Quentin; ff. 33-35: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 35v-38v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit and suffrages of Anthony abbot and Sebastian; ff. 39-48v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 49-63v: Office of the Dead with 3 lessons at matins; ff. 64-69: Prayers and suffrages of Anne, Michael, Quentin and Adrian; ff. 69-70v and by tie mark to f. 74r-v: Prayer of confession and repentance in French added in a different hand; f. 71r-v: Prayer to the Virgin in French, added by a third hand; ff. 72-76: Obsecro te and O Intemerata, both added by a fourth hand; f. 76v, blank; f. 77r-v: Prayer to the Virgin in French, added by a fifth hand. f. 78r-v, blank.

mssHM 1172

Book of Hours, use of Paris[?] : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-141v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-11v: Full calendar in French; ff. 12-22v: Pericopes of the Gospels, the Obsecro te, the O Intemerata, and a prayer to Jesus; ff. 23-69: Hours of the Virgin, possibly of the use of Paris; f. 69v, ruled, but blank; ff. 70-75: Short hours of the Cross, missing the opening leaf; ff. 75v-80v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 80v-84v: Catena mainly from John 19, 1-34 sparsim, and prayers; ff. 85-98: Penitential psalms, beginning defectively, and litany; f. 98v, ruled, but blank; ff. 99-138v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris, beginning and ending defectively; ff. 139-141: Prayer to the Virgin and suffrage of Christopher. f. 141v, blank.

mssHM 1156

Book of Hours, use of Rouen : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-136v. [Book of Hours] ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; ff. 13-28v: Pericopes of the Gospels, the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata, followed by a suffrage of Mary Magdalene; ff. 29-72v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rouen with a suffrage after lauds of Catherine of Alexandria and one after compline of Lawrence, added in a contemporary Bâtarde script; ff. 73-90v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 91-94: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 94v-97v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 98-128v: Office of the Dead, with responses to the lessons as in Sarum use; ff. 129-136v: Prayers in French.

mssHM 1166

Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-200 [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar in French; ff. 13-28v: Pericopes of the Gospels with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata; ff. 29-98v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 99-119: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 119v-123v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 124-128: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 128v-186: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 186v-198: Prayers in French. [ff. 198v-200v, blank].

mssHM 1128

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-177v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-11v: Calendar, missing the month of January; ff. 12-19v: Stabat mater, Obsecro te, O Intemerata; ff. 20-35: Suffrages of the Trinity, John the Baptist, All Angels, Michael, Nicholas, Francis, Anthony of Padua, John the Evangelist, Sebastian, Jerome, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Agnes, Apollonia, Elizabeth, Barbara, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Leonard; f. 35v, ruled, but blank; ff. 36-42v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 43-48v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 49-55v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 56-120v: Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum cursum romane ecclesie; ff. 121-136: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 136v, ruled, but blank except for a 16th century prayer added; ff. 137-177v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome.

mssHM 1148

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