Book of hours, use of Rome

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Creator

Catholic Church.

Title

Book of hours, use of Rome.

Created

France, ca. 1460.

Physical Description

1 item (120 leaves) : parchment ; 205 mm x 147 mm

Language

Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)

Notes

Forms part of the Otto F. Ege collection.

Layout: single column of 16 lines.

Script: Gothic textualis.

Decoration: 7 miniatures, 4 with diapered panels, of an original 12 miniatures: of the Annunciation (f. 13r), of the Visitation (f. 30r), of the Presentation in the temple (f. 53r), of the Massacre of the Innocents (f. 57r), of Christ at the Last Judgement (f. 68r), of Pentecost (f. 87r), of mourners and priest praying over the bier (f. 92r). Dentelle initials, line-fillers in similar style; rubrication.

Binding: dark-brown blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Re-backed.

Foliation in modern pencil. This foliation lacks leaves 40, 45, 50, 64, 65, 66, 67, which have been lost. A second foliation in modern pencil on every five leaves.

In Latin with calendar and rubrics in middle French.

Provenance

Contemporary manuscript notes in calendar recording birth of four children in January and February Manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown in modern pencil: Benedictine, Italy, 1952 Maggs, and description of the manuscript. Formerly owned by Otto Ege (Ege Laird 5). Purchased from John M. Freudenheim, Tom Freudenheim, Jo Freudenheim, Susan Core, Richard Core, and Michael Frisch, via JSJT Holdings, LLC, 2015-2018, with Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, and the John W. Corwith Memorial Fund.

Access and use

This material is open for research.

Summary

Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, of a book of hours, use of Rome. Contains: calendar in middle French (ff. 1r-12v), Hours of the Virgin (compline missing, ff. 13r-63v), Penitential Psalms (ff. 68r-78r), Litany, petitions, prayers (ff. 78v-83v), Hours of the Cross (ff. 84r-86v), Hours of the Holy Spirit (ff. 87r-91v), Office of the Dead (ff. 92r-127v). Prayer to St. Gaugerice (St. Gaugericus, bishop of Cambrai) suggests a Cambrai destination.

Format

Archives or Manuscripts

Added to Catalog

April 26, 2024

Indexes/Finding aids

Finding aid available.

Subjects

Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions > Early works to 1800.

Books of hours > Early works to 1800.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Early works to 1800.

Subjects (Local Yale)