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Book of hours, use of Rouen
Creator
Title
Book of hours, use of Rouen.
Created
France, ca. 1470.
Physical Description
1 item (117 leaves) : parchment ; 184 mm x 122 mm
Language
Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
Forms part of the Otto F. Ege collection.
Layout: single column of 17 lines.
Script: Gothic textualis.
Decoration: six half-page miniatures with extravagant panel borders with flowers, fruit, foliage, acanthus, and animals: of the four Evangelists (f. 13r), of the Annunciation (f. 25r), David in penance (f. 62r), of the Crucifixion (f. 78r), of monks chanting before a draped coffin (f. 84r), of the Virgin and Child with a portrait of a young woman praying (indicating female ownership(?), f. 110v). Includes 24 small border miniatures in the calendar; Labors of the month on recto, biblical scenes on verso. Several folios with three-sided borders; multi-line flourished initials; dentelle initials; one-line dentelle versal initials; line-fillers of red and blue with gold drops and highlighted with white penwork. Elaborate borders throughout. Rubrication.
Binding: modern black blind-tooled leather binding, with traces of clasps.
Miniatures attributed to the Master of the Rouen Échevinage, active 1460-1480.
In Latin and Middle French.
Provenance
Several short manuscript notes in modern pencil on front pastedown and front flyleaf. Note “321” on white paper stub pasted into lower left corner front pastedown. Formerly owned by Otto Ege (Ege 956.1986). Ege’s black monogram on front pastedown. Manuscript volume was on deposit with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA); inventory number on front pastedown: TR 12828/24. 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 Rouen. Contains: calendar in Middle French (ff. 1r-12v), Gospel lessons (ff. 13r-18v), Obsecro te and O intemerata (ff. 18v-24v), Hours of the Virgin (ff. 15r-61v), Penitential Psalms (ff. 62r-72v), Kyrie, litany, petitions, prayers (ff. 72v-77v), Short Hours of the Cross (ff. 78r-81r), Short Hours of the Holy Spirit (ff. 81r-83r), Office of the Dead (ff. 84r-110r), Doulce Dame (ff. 110v-115r), Doulx Dieu: Les .vii. requestes (ff. 115r-117v). Use of Rouen suggested by petitions to St. Austreberta (Rouen) and St. Honorina (Paris, Rouen).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2024
Indexes/Finding aids
Finding aid available.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
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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