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Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-201v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; ff. 13-22: [f. 13, blank; f. 13v, illuminated; f. 14, rubric only,] Catena mainly from John 19 and pericopes of the gospels; ff. 22v-36v: Obsecro te and O Intemerata (masculine forms) followed by other prayers to the Virgin with rubrics in French; ff. 37-107: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 110-129: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 129v-161: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 161-169v: Prayers, often introduced by long rubrics or indulgences in French; ff. 170-201v: Suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Christopher, Martin, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, the Trinity, All Angels, Peter, Paul, Andrew, John the Evangelist, Thomas the Apostle, Many Apostles, Stephen, Lawrence, Gregory, Blasius, Sebastian, Denis, Gervasius and Protasius, Cosmas and Damianus, Many Martyrs, Anthony abbot, Augustine, Benedict, Maurus, Fiacre, Lazarus, Claude, Many Confessors, Cecilia, Agnes, Apollonia, Avia, Opportuna, Genevieve, Anne; De nostre dame par toute l'annee antienne, Salve regina misericordie (and antiphons for the days of the week), of the Cross, for peace, the Eucharist, Martha.
Type
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Date
[between 1450 and 1499]
Call number
mssHM 1163
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Written for a member of the family of Malet de Graville, whose coat of arms appears in the margin of f. 62 (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 127); added to the initial on f. 22v are the arms of the Balzac family, seigneurs d'Entragues (Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 116); the original owners may have been Louis Malet and his wife, Jeanne de Balzac; their daughter, Anne, married Pierre de Balzac in 1505. The book may have passed to Pierre's son-in-law, Claude d'Urfé (see A. Vernet, "Les Manuscrits de Claude d'Urfé (1501-1558) au Château de la Bastie," Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Comptes-Rendus (1976) 81-97). His library was bought in 1777 by the Duc de La Vallière; this manuscript, however, does not appear in the Duc's 1784 sale. E. M. Bancel sale, Paris, 8 May 1882, n. 13 to Baron de Beurnonville; his sale, Paris, 16 February 1885, pp. 14-18 to the bookseller D. Morgand (Inv. 23092); Dodd and Mead and Co., Catalogue 11 (October 1885), pp. 27-28. Acquired by E. Dwight Church; in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 402 with a plate of f. 101. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
106 x 162 mm
Associated people
Church, Elihu Dwight, (1835-1908,)
Associated organizations
Thibaron-Echaubard (Firm),
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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