Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Calendar (Utrecht), Gospel Pericopes, Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome, Penitential Psalms and Litany, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Cross, Prayers to the Virgin in Latin and French, Stabat mater, Veni creator spiritus, The Eight Verses of St Bernard, Suffrages, Quicumque vult, Prayers in Latin and French, Additional prayers — Multiple dates; Dutch, Utrecht

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Calendar (Utrecht), Gospel Pericopes, Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome, Penitential Psalms and Litany, Office of the Dead, Hours of the Cross, Prayers to the Virgin in Latin and French, Stabat mater, Veni creator spiritus, The Eight Verses of St Bernard, Suffrages, Quicumque vult, Prayers in Latin and French, Additional prayers — Multiple dates; Dutch, Utrecht

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 93

Date

15th century, middle, probably 1460–5;

additions, c. 1500

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 121 + ii fol.

Decoration

Important miniatures (fols. 12v, 22, 46v, 57v, 84v, 100v)

Important historiated and other borders.

Important historiated initials.

Important other initials.

Binding

Red velvet, rebacked with red 'plush', probably for Douce, two silver clasps.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian in 1834.

Provenance

Made for Yolande de Lalaing, wife of Reinould II van Brederode; their arms and initials 'R.Y.' frequent in the borders.

Fols. 84v-5, portrait of Yolande and four daughters; her fifth child was born in 1465/6.

Fol. 84v, inscription, perhaps in Yolande's hand: 'Noublie a Jacques Lalaing. Votre (?) Marie de B.', referring to Yolande's eldest brother Jacques de Lalaing (d. 1453).

Acquired by Douce at an unknown date, 'probably one of his last acquisitions' (Douce Legacy).

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome 'Hore beate Marie Virginis secundum Ordinarium sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie'

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 93

Summary

Preceded by a calendar (fol. 1, with added Franciscan entries), and Capitula (fol. 10v). Followed by:

(fol 47) 'Septem Psalmi penitenciales cum letania'

(fol. 58) 'Vigilie Mortuorum'

(fol. 80) 'Hore sancte Crucis minores'

(fol. 85) prayers

(fol. 89) hymns

(fol. 92) suffrages

(fol. 104) more added prayers, partly in French.

There are many finely drawn miniatures, borders, etc., see Waagen's Art Treasures (1854), iii. 100, including the Trois Vifs et Trois Morts (fols. 57v, 58r), a tournament (fol. 100v, cf. 80v), and cross-bow shooting (fol. 101): and from them and the calendar the book appears to be written on the Lower Rhine under Flemish influence.

A leaf is lost after fol. 88.

The miniature of the Crucifixion is peculiar in having a personification of the Church seated on a beast with four heads, representing the Evangelists (fol. 100v).

The lady for whom the book was written is represented on fol. 84v, and bore the arms, party per pale, on the dexter side quarterly 1st and 4th or a lion rampant gules, 2nd and 3rd argent a lion rampant of the second, on the sinister side gules ten lozenges argent conjoined, three three three and one (for Lalaine): see also fols. 57v, 58r, 85, 101r, where 'R. Y' is also found, and other arms.

On fol. 84v is added '... James de Biey [?], votre Marie de B' (about A.D. 1500: cf. fol. 83v).

Date

written in the 15th cent. on the Lower Rhine or the Netherlands

Language

French

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, illuminated, binding: red velvet with gold ornament on leather inside, silver clasps (18th cent. ?)

Physical extent

134 Leaves