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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Angers, in French and Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Angers, c.1500]
An appealing example of Angevin manuscript production at the dawn of the 16th century.
155 x 105mm. 101 leaves, complete (modern foliation in pen 1-101 followed here), 28 lines, ruled space: 105 x 67mm, one large miniature with full border and ten large initials with one-sided borders, smaller illuminated initials throughout (some marginal staining and spotting, small losses of pigment to the faces in the miniature on f.14, borders occasionally rubbed). 17th-century blind-tooled leather over wooden boards, catches and clasps (rebacked).
Provenance: the Jesuit professed house on the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris: 17th-century inscription on f.1 ‘Ex Libris Domus Sti Antonii Parisiensis’ – De Nully: 18th-century inscription and added prayers on ff.100v-101.
Content: Calendar ff.1-6v; gospel extracts and prayers to the Virgin ff.7-13v; Hours of the Virgin ff.14-29v; Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany ff.30-39v; Office of the Dead, use of Angers, ff.40-51; prayers to God the Father, to Jesus Christ, to the Holy Spirit and to the Trinity ff.51v-57v; prayers to the Virgin ff.57v-63v, suffrages ff.63v-69v; prayers to be said at different stages of the mass and other prayers, in Latin and French, ff.69v-99v.
The Annunciation is on f.14. The large illuminated initials are on ff.7, 9, 20v, 22v, 23v, 25, 26v, 27v, 30 and 40.
An appealing example of Angevin manuscript production at the dawn of the 16th century.
155 x 105mm. 101 leaves, complete (modern foliation in pen 1-101 followed here), 28 lines, ruled space: 105 x 67mm, one large miniature with full border and ten large initials with one-sided borders, smaller illuminated initials throughout (some marginal staining and spotting, small losses of pigment to the faces in the miniature on f.14, borders occasionally rubbed). 17th-century blind-tooled leather over wooden boards, catches and clasps (rebacked).
Provenance: the Jesuit professed house on the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris: 17th-century inscription on f.1 ‘Ex Libris Domus Sti Antonii Parisiensis’ – De Nully: 18th-century inscription and added prayers on ff.100v-101.
Content: Calendar ff.1-6v; gospel extracts and prayers to the Virgin ff.7-13v; Hours of the Virgin ff.14-29v; Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany ff.30-39v; Office of the Dead, use of Angers, ff.40-51; prayers to God the Father, to Jesus Christ, to the Holy Spirit and to the Trinity ff.51v-57v; prayers to the Virgin ff.57v-63v, suffrages ff.63v-69v; prayers to be said at different stages of the mass and other prayers, in Latin and French, ff.69v-99v.
The Annunciation is on f.14. The large illuminated initials are on ff.7, 9, 20v, 22v, 23v, 25, 26v, 27v, 30 and 40.
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