Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, first quarter; French | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, first quarter; French

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 36

Place of origin

French

Date

16th century, first quarter

Language

Latin

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

(fol. 1) Calendar in French, a saint for every day

(fol. 7) Hours of the Cross

(fol. 13) Mass and Hours (fol. 20) of the Virgin

(fol. 61) Penitential Psalms with litany (fol. 70v)

Prayers (fol. 75: Obsecro te)

(fol. 80) Commemorations of Sts Anthony abbot, Christopher, Adrian and Hubert, Anthony of Padua, Nicholas, Michael, John the Baptist, George, Sebastian, Catherine, Mary Magdalen, Barbara, Margaret

(fol. 91) Office of the dead

(fol. 114) Devotions among which that of the Holy Face (fol. 117v). By another hand: passion according to St John (fol. 118v)

(fol. 125) Prayer to the Virgin: Domina mea s. Maria

(fol. 128v) Proses of Our Lady, except for the first one, which is that of St Denis (Gaude prole grecia).

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 140 + i + iii fol.

Decoration

Fine and good miniatures in several styles.

Historiated and other borders.

Historiated initials.

Other initials.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

On fols. 61, 63: ESPOVER EN DIEU (see fols. 70v, 73). St Adrian and St Hubert are invoked as patroni (fol. 81).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

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Rawlinson, Richard, 1690-1755

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