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Book of Hours, use of Bescançon : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-189; [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; f. 13r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 14-21v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 22-93v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Bescançon; ff. 94-99: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 99v-103v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 104-122: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 122v-171: Office of the Dead, use of Bescançon; ff. 171-177v: Obsecro te and O Intemerata; ff. 178-188: Prayers in French. ff. 188v-189v, blank.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1440 and 1460]
Call number: mssHM 1141
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Arms on f. 5v, gules a bend argent, of the Neufchâtel family. Arms on f. 71 of Guy de La Baume, count of Montrevel (d. 1516; Montrevel is in the department of the Ain) and his wife Jeanne de Longwy, per pale, 1, or a bend indented azure (de la Baume; see Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 145); 2, azure a bend or (Longwy; see Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 86). Notes relating to the Rye and Longwy families for the years 1557-67 are on the first leaves of the calendar (the three sons of Simon de Rye and Jeanne de La Baume married the three daughters of Christophe de Longwy and Jeanne de Neufchâtel); a transcription of these notes and information regarding the family members mentioned in them have been carefully copied out in red and black ink on ff. ii-iii verso; the transcription is signed and dated, although by a different hand, "19 Avril 1862. E. M. Bancel"; his sale, Paris, 8 May 1882, n. 12 to Ellis. The manuscript belonged to E. Dwight Church; see his Catalogue of . . . English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 403 with a plate of f. 65v. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.

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