Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Calendar in French, Gospel Pericopes, Obsecro te and O intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms and Litany, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French, Seven Requests to Our Lord, Long Hours of the Cross (Hours of the Passion), Suffrages — 15th century, early; French, Paris

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Calendar in French, Gospel Pericopes, Obsecro te and O intemerata, Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms and Litany, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French, Seven Requests to Our Lord, Long Hours of the Cross (Hours of the Passion), Suffrages — 15th century, early; French, Paris

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 62

Place of origin

French, Paris

Date

15th century, early

Language

Latin

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

2 + 240 (238) + 1 fol.

Decoration

Important miniatures.

Important historiated and other borders.

Important historiated initials.

Important other initials.

Binding

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

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

On fols. 1 and 2 are successively engravings of Henry de Lorreine duc de Guise and Charles de Lorraine duc du Mayne. The masculine famulo tuo on fol. 22 is changed into famule tue. In the litany St Gregory of Spoleto is among the martyrs (relics at Cologne, Treves, and Verdun). The presence of St Agricola may point to influence from Clermont-Ferrand.

Unidentified arms in the borders: azure, a bend lozengy argent and gules, between two mullets of eight points pierced or. Two hounds as supporters or badges.. The same arms are found in a Froissart, Brussels, Bib. Roy., MS. IV. 251, one a a group of manuscripts bequeathed to the Minimes of Tonnerre by Charles-Henri de Clermont in 1640.

Francis Douce.

Title

Hours of the Virgin, according to the use of Paris (cf. fol. 236v)

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 62

Summary

Preceded by a French calendar (fol. 3), and capitula, etc. (fol. 15), and followed by:

(fol. 95) the Penitential Psalms with litany

(fol. 112) Hours of the Cross, wanting the first leaf

(fol. 119) 'Hore de Sancto Spiritu'

(fol. 125) Office for the Dead

(fol. 171v) Fifteen Joys in French

(fol. 178) Seven Requestes, wanting the first leaf

(fol. 182) Hours of the Passion, a long form

(fol. 224) Suffrages.

There are many fine half-page illuminations, borders and capitals, and a large number of grotesques usually engaged in games: Douce has supplied a list of musical instruments, games, and miniatures. The following arms frequently occur, often with two hounds as supporters or badges:-- azure a bend lozengy argent and gules between two mullets of eight points pierced or.

Two engraved portraits of Henry and Charles de Lorraine, dukes of Guise and Mayenne respectively (at fols. 1, 2), may be a clue to part of the history of the MS.

Date

written late in the 14th cent. in France

Language

Latin

French

Physical facet

On parchment, illuminated, binding: red velvet

Physical extent

241 Leaves