Manuscripts
Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript], beginning of the 16th century
- Description
- Book of Hours, according to the use of Rome. Includes a calendar, pericopes of the Gospels, the Hours of the Virgin, Psalms, the Office of the Dead and additional prayers. ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French alternating red and brown (the ink of the text), with major feasts in blue; 4 lines reserved at the top of each month, possibly for a miniature. 2. ff. 13-22: Pericopes of the Gospels; Oracio ad virginem mariam, Obsecro te &; O intemerata & orbis terrarum. Inclina mater misericordie &; f. 22v, ruled, but blank. ff. 23-24v: Pulcrerrime [sic] laudes marie, O filia dei patris. Mater ihesu christi, Amica spiritus sancti &[17 appellations of the Virgin]; Septem gaudia beate marie, Gaude virgo mater christi & Deus qui beatissimam et gloriosam virginem mariam in conceptu & 4. ff. 25-88: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome, with weekly variations of the psalms at matins set into the text before the lessons; suffrages of All Saints, and hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit worked in; Advent office begins on f. 82; 3 leaves missing before ff. 51, 62 and 77, containing the hours of the Cross at lauds, and the beginnings of sext and compline; f. 57 misbound, should follow f. 61; f. 87 should follow f. 82; f. 88v, ruled, but blank. 5. ff. 89-10v: Penitential psalms and litany, including Gatianus, Martin and Lidorius among the confessors, and Radegundis among the virgins. 6. ff. 105-143v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome. 7. ff. 143v-158: Prayers as follow: Ave domine ihesu christe verbum patris filius virginis & with versicles, responses and the prayer, Deus qui culpa offenderis &; septem versus beati bernardi, Illumina oculos meos & and the prayer, Deus qui ezechie regi &; de sancta trinitate, Adoro te deum patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum unam divinitatem &; suffrages of the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, James, Christopher, Sebastian, Lawrence, Maurice, Gatianus, Martin, Lidorius, Fiacre, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agnes, Margaret; Les sept oraisons saint gregoire, O domine ihesu christe adoro te in cruce pendentem &; Oraison pour les trespasses, Avete omnes anime fideles & with versicle, response and the prayer, Domine ihesu christe salus et liberatio &; f. 158v, ruled, and, added in a later hand, a series of 4 prayers, each beginning in a similar manner, Je te commande a dieu le pere tout puissant
- Date
- beginning of the 16th century.
- Call number
- mssHM 1165
- Provenance
- Sold in 1854 by Lamarche of Dijon to Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876); his sale, Paris, 12 June 1882, n. 21 to Lortic. Belonged to Robert Hoe; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n. 2069 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 155 x 102 (96 x 57) mm
- Associated people
- Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, (1790-1876,)
- Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
- Associated organization
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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