Book of hours

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Creator

Catholic Church.

Title

Book of hours.

Created

France, ca. 1460

Physical Description

1 item (117 leaves) : parchment ; 205 mm x 135 mm

Language

Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600); Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)

Notes

Layout: single column of 15 lines.

Script: Gothic textualis.

Decoration: 12 full-page miniatures (one miniature for compline in the Hours of the Virgin wanting), for all the Hours and most major textual divisions, plus two miniatures of female saints. One six-line historiated initial of the Annunciation (f. 20r); multiple three- and four-line flourished initials; two-line dentelle initials; blue and red or blue and gold line-fillers in multiple designs. Rubricated throughout.

Binding: 18th-century light brown calf, gold-tooled, with spine label: “MISSALE.”

Ruled in red ink.

Catchwords indicate an irregular structure, with miniatures tipped in (some miniatures are black on recto).

In Latin with later additions in Middle French and Middle Dutch.

Provenance

Ff. 11v and 19v include coats of arms in the lower margins, indicating marriage(?): blue and gold, and red and gold. Armorial bookplate of John Borthwick Crookston, with inscription at top: “Number in Catalogue XXIV” (pasted over an inscription). Formerly owned by Otto Ege (Ege 17.1999). Front flyleaf ir: Ege’s black monogram with “TR 12333” at top and “No. 17” at bottom; front flyleaf iv: “#17”. Front flyleaf iv: Ege’s red monogram. Manuscript volume was on deposit with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA); inventory number on front pastedown: TR 12333/17. 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 of unidentified use. Contains: calendar in French (April and May wanting) (ff. 1r-10v), Hours of the Cross (ff. 11v-16v), Hours of the Virgin (ff. 19v-67v), Penitential Psalms (ff. 68v-79r), Kyrie, litany, petitions, prayers (ff. 79r-82v), Office of the Dead (ff. 83v-105r), Salve regina (f. 105), Mass in the Hours of the Virgin (ff. 106r-110r), Seven verses of St. Bernard (ff. 111v-112v), prayers and hymns (ff. 112v-113v). Also includes prayers in Middle-Dutch (ff. 114r-115v) and Middle French (ff. 116v-117r) added later. Of unidentified use, but likely northern France; litany includes: SS. Winnoc (Cambrai, Tournai), Audomare (Arras, Cambrai), and Folquine (=Folcwine, Thérouanne).

Format

Archives or Manuscripts

Added to Catalog

April 23, 2024

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)

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Ege, Otto F., - Ownership.