Dep. f. 70
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Book of Hours, Use of Le Mans; northern France, first half 15th century
Contents
Calendar
Full calendar in French, in gold and alternating blue and red.
Gospel sequences, lacking John.
Obsecro te … Masculine forms.
Hours of B.V.M. of the use of (Le Mans).
Penitential psalms, beginning imperfectly in Ps. 6: 7 ‘stratum meum’, and (f. 77) Litany.
Ten confessors: … (6–10) abline fortunase anthoni maudete ludouice; fourteen virgins: … (11) radegund.
Office of the dead.
Fol. 82 is a supply leaf.
⟨D⟩eus propicius esto michi peccatori
[O intemerata], beginning imperfectly ‘euuangelista factus est’.
Fifteen Joys of B.V.M. Sonet, no. 458.
Seven Requests. Sonet, no. 504.
Sonet, no. 1876. Bottom 4 lines blank.
Indulgenced prayer (added)
Ends imperfectly in last word
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
15 long lines. Ruled in deep pink ink.
Decoration
Fine miniatures. Two original 11-line pictures remain (ff. 32 Annunciation, 122 B.V.M. on throne suckling Child flanked by 2 kneeling angels with 2 above holding crown) + two added (ff. 17 Pentecost, 82 burial).
Initials: (i) 3-line, in blue patterned with white on gold grounds decorated in colours; (ii, iii) 2- and 1-line, in gold, on pink and blue grounds patterned with white.
Line-fillers in pink and blue patterned with white and a blob of gold.
Borders: (i) full on original picture-pages, in colours with flowers, birds, etc.; (ii) on pages with type (i) initials, in top, bottom and left margins.
Binding
Binding, s. xix, of red velvet.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Perhaps in England by s. xvi: the strip used to stick f. 82 to f. 83 is cut from a document of English origin, s. xvi, concerning property in the suburbs of […] lately occupied by William Hilton skinner.
‘oct. 4. Whitechaple (?)’, in pencil, f. 135.
deposited by the National Trust, 1981
Record Sources
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.