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Title
Hours.
Created
France, [between 1400 and 1500]
Physical Description
ff. 152 : vellum ; 200 x 135 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata, in two sizes.
Rich decoration: 1-line versals and 2-line initials, both of the dentelle type; 2-line KL-monograms of the same type in the Calendar. Floral outer margin borders normally on the pages with 2-line initials. Four-margins borders and miniatures above 3 lines of text opening with a 3-line foliate initial, on ff. 13r (Annuntiation), 25r (Visitation), 38r (Crucifixion), 39v (Pentecost), 41r (Nativity), 46r (Annuntiation to the Shepherds), 50r (Adoration of the Magi), 58v (Flight into Egypt), 65r (Coronation of the Virgin), 76r (Saint John on Patmos), 99r (Funeral mass). The miniatures are rounded at the top. The borders contain acanths and a multitude of gold vine and other leaves, flowers, animals, hybrids and monsters. The artist is said to be Péronet Lamy, an illuminator in the service of the Dukes of Savoy in the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
Binding: contemporary binding: brown calf over rounded wooden boards. Both covers entirely blind-tooled with rows of juxtaposed stamps: monkeys and fleurs-de-lys in the central panel; rosettes and phoenix(?) in the frame. Clasps missing.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
The Calendar perhaps points to Besançon as the place for which this manuscript was made; the presumptive illuminator was working at Thonon; but five saints in the Litany have strong links with Brittany and Normandy (Corentinus, Ivo, Maclovius, Paternus, Samson). And in the modern period the manuscript belonged to at least one family residing in Normandy: on the second front flyleaf and in the upper and lower margins of the first Calendar pages (ff. 1r-3v) there are numerous notes in French by various hands, generally from the seventeenh and eighteenth centuries, mostly family records of births, baptisms and deaths. The seventeenth-century entries obviously deal with members of the le Portier family and date from the years 1609-1695. The numerous s. XVIII entries record births, baptisms and deaths in the Pecqueult de Boisville family, from 1728 to 1783, and the places mentioned are Lisieux, Orbec, Saint-Philbert-des-Champs (all in Calvados). Pictorial bookplate of Charles J. Rosenbloom. Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom, Yale 1920, 1974 October 1.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on vellum with calendar in French.
Publications
S. Rutter and D. Gallup, "A Checklist of the Bequest [of Charles J. Rosenbloom]," Yale University Library Gazette 49 (1975) p. 341, no. 171.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2010
References
Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 15th century.
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