[Book of hours : Use of Bourges].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Catholic Church.

Contributor:

Dénie, Jean Felix, former owner.

Goix, Jean de, former owner.

Goix, Jeanne de, former owner.

Rérolle, Antoine Joseph, 1850-1924, former owner.

Jansen op de Haar, G.A., former owner.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

books of hours

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the DeGoix family in the 17th century, with inscriptions by Jean DeGoix (p. 144, partly legible, with reference to another possible owner, Jean Felix Dénie (?), and La Motte) and Jeanne DeGoix (p. 190-191).

Formerly owned by notary and amateur antiquarian Antoine Joseph Rérolle, Autun, Saône-et-Loire (inscription, p. ii), who bought it in the late 19th century from an elderly woman of Outremécourt, at which time it was already badly damaged by dust and mice and lacked its beginning, end, and initials that had been cut out (account in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870); he reassembled the remnants and had them rebound.

Formerly owned by G.A. Jansen op de Haar, 1982; purchased from antiques dealer Simone Comode, 19 rue Cocand, Autun (acquisition note in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870).

Sold at auction by Adams Amsterdam Auctions (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 19 June 2017, lot 180.

Physical Description:

165 leaves : parchment ; 147 x 100 (86 x 60) mm bound to 153 x 113 mm.

Other Title:

Manuscrit venant de la Ville de La Mothe

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1475 and 1499]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Damaged illuminated book of hours with calendar including several feasts typical of Bourges (May 7, Translatio Sancti Guillelmi; May 20, Austregisilli episcopi; July 15, Liberatio Iherusalem; September 1, Lupi episcopi; September 19, Mariani monachi), Hours of the Virgin in the Use of Bourges, Brief Hours of the Cross, Brief Hours of the Holy Spirit, and the Office of the Dead. Multiple leaves missing, including probably seven large miniatures (Matins, Lauds, None, Compline in the Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms; Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Holy Spirit), with loss of text in almost every section. Illuminations that are not missing are severely rubbed and water-damaged.

Contents:

1. p.i-xxii: Calendar (February-December)

2. p.1-16: Gospel lessons

3. p.17-70: Matins

4. p.71-97: Lauds (partial)

5. p.98-113: Prime

6. p.114-124: Terce (partial)

7. p.125-132: Sext (partial)

8. p.133-138: None (partial)

9. p.139-144: Vespers (partial)

10. p.145-153: Compline (partial)

11. p.155-188: Penitential psalms (partial)

12. p.189-194: Litany and prayers (partial)

13. p.195-202: Brief Hours of the Cross (partial)

14. p.203-209: Brief Hours of the Holy Spirit

15. p.210-221: Obsecro te

16. p.222-223: Salve regina

17. p.225-308: Office of the Dead (partial).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Pagination: Parchment, i (19th-century paper) + i (19th-century parchment) + 165 + i (19th-century paper); [i--xxii], 1-308; late 19th- or early 20th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in twelve long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.

Script: Written in Gothic textualis semi-quadrata script, with versicles, responses, and antiphons written in a slightly smaller version of the script.

Decoration: 7 large arched miniatures with full foliate borders and three lines of text with a three-line illuminated initial on gold ground, all badly damaged (Nativity, p. 98; Annunciation to the Shepherds, p. 114; Presentation in the Temple, p. 125; Flight to Egypt, p. 139; Owner before Virgin and Child?, p. 210; Pietà, p. 222; Funeral with monks, p. 225); one full foliate border (p. 1); 1- and 2-line initials in gold on blue and pink ground and blue and pink line-fillers throughout; rubrication in red.

Binding: Late 19th-century leather, gilt tooling; gilt spine title Manuscrit venant de la Ville de La Mothe; marbled endpapers.

Origin: Written in France in the late 15th century.

Purchased together with Contre-partie du manuscrit de Lamothe, Ms. Codex 1870, University of Pennsylvania.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1869.

OCLC:

1007993409