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Book of hours, use of Rennes
Creator
Title
Book of hours, use of Rennes.
Created
France, ca. 1450.
Physical Description
1 item (171 leaves) : parchment ; 131 mm x 93 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Forms part of the Otto Ege Collection.
Layout: single column of 11 lines.
Script: gothic textualis.
Decoration: five miniatures by different artists: contemporary miniature of King David (f. 110r), miniatures of St. Barbara (f. 1r), St. Margaret (f. 5r), and St. Agatha (f. 6r) by the same, later artist, and one miniature of St. Radegund (f. 3r). Three-sided borders for minor Hours in Hours of the Virgin. Multi-line flourished and dentelle initials throughout accompanied by similar line-fillers. Ruled in diluted red ink.
Binding: gold-tooled brown leather. Clasps wanting.
In Latin.
Provenance
Percy family armorial bookplate (crescent with double manacle): “Honi soit qui mal y pense.” Formerly owned by Otto F. Ege (Ege 278.1983). On front pastedown: red leather label with 503 stamped in gold. Inscriptions on flyleaf ir: “#88”; Mrs. Ege’s description: “France B of H / 1460 / use of Dol;” No. 503; and 388 circled. Manuscript volume was on deposit with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA); inventory number label on front flyleaf: TR12828/57. 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 Rennes. Imperfect: calendar wanting. Contains: Suffrages to St. Barbara, St. Radegund, St. Margaret, St. Agatha (ff. 1r-7r), prayer (ff. 7r-9r), unidentified Matins (ff. 11r023r), unidentified lauds (23r-39v), Matins in Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit (ff. 39v-42r), Prime in Hours of the Cross, of the Holy Spirit, and of the Virgin (ff. 42r-51r), Terce in Hours of the Cross, of the Holy Spirit, and of the Virgin (ff. 51r-57r), Sext in Hours of the Virgin, of the Cross, and of the Holy Spirit (ff. 57r-62v), None in Hours of the Virgin, of the Cross, and of the Holy Spirit (ff. 62v-68v), Vespers in Hours of the Virgin, of the Cross, and of the Holy Spirit (ff. 69r-73r), Compline in Hours of the Virgin, of the Cross, and of the Holy Spirit (ff. 73r-81v), hymn and prayers (ff. 83r-105r), numerological texts (ff. 105r-108v), Penitential psalms (ff. 110r-128v), Kyrie, litany, psalms and prayers (ff. 128v-139r), substitute for missing Office of the Dead (ff. 140-141), remainder of the Office of the Dead (ff. 142r-171r). Manuscript includes four later paper flyleaves with manuscript prayers in French and Latin entitled "Prieres Ordinaires."
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
April 09, 2024
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Armorial bookplates.
Books of hours.
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 15th century.
Manuscripts.
Also listed under
Otto F. Ege collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
France.
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