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MS. Rawl. liturg. f. 18

Summary Catalogue no.: 15762

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Paris
1.

Kalendar in French (fol. 1), a saint for each day

2.

Pericopes from the Gospels (fol. 13)

3.

Obsecro te (fol. 18), and O intemerata (fol. 21v)

4.

Office of the Virgin (fol. 24)

5.

Penitential Psalms (fol. 81) with litany (fol. 92v)

6.

Offices of the cross (fol. 97) and the Holy Ghost (fol. 100)

7.

Office of the dead (fol. 103)

8.

Fifteen Joys (fol. 130v: 'Les xv voies[sic] Nostre Dame'), in French

9.

Seven Requests (fol. 136: V Playes).

Language(s): Latin, Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 139 + 1 + i fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 172 × 111 mm.
Dimensions (written): 85 × 57 mm.

Layout

15 lines

Decoration

School of Maître François (Pächt and Alexander i. 750). Half-page miniatures and illuminated borders at the beginning of the offices and the Penitential Psalms; less elaborate borders and illuminated initials at the beginning of the Hours of the Lady office and the other parts of the volume.

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials.

Binding

French, stamped leather with gilt lines, etc., early 17th cent. .

History

Origin: c. 1480 ; French, Paris (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

The volume belonged to 'Jehan Mocquet, 1618' (fol. 13, see his autobiographical notes of 1632 on fols. 136, 139 and 'M.' on the binding: he was 'garde du Cabinet des singularites du Roy au Palais des Thuilleries')

'Ce liure a Eté donné par le sr Mogier a S. [?] de [?] Besson', perhaps in 1686. The book bears a fine armorial bookplate of F. Besson von Steffys of the canton of Freiburg [i.e. François Besson of Estavayer-le-Lac, 1622-?1675]. Some considerable additional matter was at some time taken away from the end of the present volume.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2024) from the following sources:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 77
Pächt and Alexander (1966)
Summary Catalogue (1895)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-06: Revised to include all information from printed catalogues.

Zotero bibliography

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