[Book of hours] : [use of Rouen]

Contributor:

Claret de La Tourrette, Jacques-Annibal, 1692-1776 (former owner); Vasilevich, Dionysiĭ (former owner)

Name:

Catholic Church

Date:

1475

Description:

Book of hours produced in Rouen and illuminated for a local woman, including calendar, Office of the Virgin, Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, and two accessory texts.; 1. ff.1r-12v: Calendar.; 2. f.13: Ruled blank with inscriptions and prayer added in a 17th-century cursive hand.; 3. ff.14r-18v: Gospel lessons.; 4. ff.18v-21r: Obsecro te.; 5. ff.21r-24r: O intemerata.; 6. ff.25r-66r: Office of the Virgin, use of Rouen.; 7. ff.67r-82v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany.; 8. ff.83r-85v: Hours of the Cross.; 9. ff.86r-88v: Hours of the Holy Spirit.; 10. ff.89r-113v: Office of the Dead, use of Rouen.; 11. ff.114r-117v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (Doulce Dame).; 12. ff.118r-120v: Seven Requests to Our Lord (Doulx Dieu).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Madame Lespect (Rouen, 17th century, inscription by Nicolas Lepage, f. 13).; Formerly owned by Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourette (Lyons, 1692-1776, engraved armorial bookplate dated 1719 inside upper cover); Formerly owned by Daniel-Marie, duc de Montfort (inscription, f. i); Formerly owned by Dionysiĭ Vasilevich (modern inscription, f. i).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), 2007.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/59

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Latin; Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- French; Catholic Church; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens; Illumination of books and manuscripts

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Codices (bound manuscripts); Books of hours; Devotional calendars; Illuminated manuscripts; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Prayers and devotions; Prayers; Devotional literature

Physical Description:

122 leaves : parchment, illustrations; 184 x 120 (98 x 61) mm bound to 192 x 138 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Parchment, fol. i (parchment) + 120 + i (parchment); 1¹² 2⁹ (+ 1, f. 13, before 1) 3³ 4-8⁸ 9² 10-14⁸ 15⁶. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 16 long lines; frame-ruled in red ink; prickings in outer margin of some leaves.; Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand (textualis quadrata).; Decoration: 15 arched miniatures above three lines of text with three-line initials, with full borders (evangelists, f. 14r; Annunciation, with roundels of Adam and Eve with the serpent, the meeting of Mary's parents at the Golden Gate, and the marriage of Mary and Joseph, f. 25r; Visitation, f. 34r; Nativity, with roundels of shepherds with musical instruments and the Tiburtine Sibyl showing a vision of the Virgin and Child to Augustus, f. 45r; angel and shepherds, f. 49v; Magi, f. 52v; presentation in the Temple, f. 55r; flight into Egypt, f. 57v; coronation of the Virgin, f. 62v; King David and the prophet Nathan, with roundels of David and Goliath and the Last Judgment, f. 67r; Crucifixion, f. 83r; Pentecost, f. 86r; Three Living and Three Dead, with roundels of the Harrowing of Hell and a burial, f. 89r; Mary holding the crucified Christ and witnessed by John the Evangelist, women mourners mentioned in the Gospels, and a 15th-century woman representing the manuscript's owner, with a roundel of the Trinity, f. 114r; and the Trinity, f. 118r). 24 calendar miniatures in side borders alternating between labors and Bible stories (Janus feasting, f. 1r; baptism of Christ, f. 1v; man by a fireplace, f. 2r; Jonah and the whale, f. 2v; pruning vines, f. 3r; Abraham and Isaac, f. 3v; man and woman in garden, f. 4r; Noah's ark, f. 4v; man and woman on horseback, f. 5r; creation of Eve, f. 5v; haymaking, f. 6r; Job, f. 6v; reaping, f. 7r; Daniel and lions, f. 7v; threshing, f. 8r; Assumption of the Virgin, f. 8v; treading grapes, f. 9r; money changers, f. 9v; sowing, f. 10r; Pharoah and army in Red Sea, f. 10v; feeding pigs, f. 11r; St. Catherine of Alexandria, f. 11v; slaughtering a pig, f. 12r; baking, f. 12v). Full-page foliate and floral borders with four-line initials on burnished gold grounds for the first pages of Obsecro te and O intemerata (ff. 18v, 21). Side borders of acanthus and flower sprays, some on divided grounds of liquid gold, on all text pages. Calendar alternates between red and blue, with red-letter days in gold, typical of a Rouen calendar. Rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow. One-line initials in gold on grounds of blue or pink patterned with white; similar line endings; two- and three-line initials blue patterned with white on burnished gold with foliate infills of orange, blue, and white.; Binding: 16th century, early; brown calf over wooden boards, blind-stamped with a panel of St. Barbara on the upper cover between the inscription Sancta Barbara/ora pro nobis and a panel of John the Baptist on the lower cover between the inscription Ung dieu sancte Johannes ung roy une foy/ora pro nobis une loy; attachments for two clasps; joints restored (Fogg).; Origin: Written and illuminated in Rouen, circa 1475.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin, with calendar and accessory texts in French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1056