Book of hours, use of Paris

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Creator

Catholic Church.

Title

Book of hours, use of Paris.

Created

France, between ca. 1420 and ca. 1430.

Physical Description

1 item (121 leaves) : parchment ; 185 mm x 130 mm

Language

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

Notes

Forms part of the Otto Ege Collection.

Layout: single column of 16 lines.

Script: gothic textualis.

Decoration: 11 full floral decorative pages. Several multi-line red and blue initials on a gold background; two-line gold initials on a blue and red background throughout. Rubricated throughout.

Binding: 19th-century blind-tooled brown leather binding over pasteboard. Spine label: 6. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves.

In Latin and Middle French.

Provenance

Modern handwritten note tipped in: Heurs a l'usage de Paris. / Calendrier Parisien, avec saints pour tous les jours de l'annee... Formerly owned by Otto F. Ege (Ege 6.1999). His bookplate with TR 12333 and no. 6 below. Manuscript volume was on deposit with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA); inventory number on front flyleaf: TR 12333/6. 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 Paris. Contains: calendar in Middle French (ff. 2r-13v), Gospel lessons (ff. 14r-19v), Obsecro te and O intemerata (ff. 20r-27r), Doulx dieu, doulx pere (ff. 28r-29v), Hours of the Virgin (ff. 30r-46v), Suffrages of St. Nicolas and St. Catherine (ff. 47-48r), (ff. 48v-63v), Penitential psalms (ff. 64r-74v), Litanies (ff. 74v-78v), Hours of the Cross (ff. 79r-80v), Hours of the Holy Spirit (81r-83v), Hours of the Virgin (ff. 84r-85v), Seven requests of our Lord in Middle French (ff. 86r-92v), Office for the dead and collection of prayers for the dead (ff. 93r-121r). Incomplete: several opening and closing folios missing.

Format

Archives or Manuscripts

Added to Catalog

March 12, 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)