Book of Hours (Use of Paris)

Office of the Dead at Lauds

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Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney FF 0001

General Information

Title Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
Shelfmarks Gurney FF 0001
Page/Folio Reference Leaf 30
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France (N.)
Script, Hands

Gothic Northern Textualis 

General Remarks

Illuminated manuscript. Ivy and florals in gold, green, blue, red. Initials gold, red, and blue, ornamental. Red and blue decorations through text in form of circles and rectangles. Two lines on recto have the word "an" in red. Ruling is visible. Parchment. On verso one initial (15mm x 15mm) is much larger than the other four (7mm x 10 mm). Number "185" written in pencil on the top right corner of the recto. 

Original Condition

Page Height 180 mm
Page Width 125 mm
Height of Written Area 94 mm
Width of Written Area 53 – 60 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 53 – 60 mm
Number of Lines 14
Line Height 4 – 6 mm
Ruling Yes

Current Condition

Dimensions 182 x 128 mm
More about the Current Condition

Residual tape on margins 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Ivy and leaves in gold, green, red, and blue. Some leaves have both green and blue. Some flowers have gold and blue. Marginal line decorated in gold, red and blue. Measures at 12 mm height 3 mm width. 

Circular blue decoration on end of fifth line on verso and third line on recto. 

Rectangular decorated blue red and gold on line 9 of verso, lines 10 and 13 on recto. 

Recto has "an" in red on line 4 and 6. 

History

Remarks

Note by Otto Ege:

Book of Hours (Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis) 

The text of a Book of Hours consists of Gospels of the Nativity, prayers for the Canonical Hours, the Penitential Psalms, the Litany, and other prayers. The beauty of the rich borders found in some of these books frequently claims our attention more than the text. In these borders it is easy to recognize the ivy leaf and the holly, but it is usually more difficult to identify the daisy, thistle, cornbottle, and wild stock. The monks had no hesitancy in letting these flowers grow from a common stem. Because of the translucency of vellum, the flowers, stems, and leaves of the border were carefully superimposed on the reverse side in order to avoid a blurred effect. 

Other available descriptions

  • Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2017) observations
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  • Parke-Bernet Galleries, London, Wilson's Ornithology, Boswell papers, other material : collected by the late Ormond G. Smith, removed from his New York City home and sold by order of the heir, Gerald H. Smith ; selections from the library of the late Florence Mathews of New York, sold by order of United States Trust Company of New York and G. Forrest Butterworth, Jr., executors, Milton's 'Paradise Lost', Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield, from the library of Adelaide B. Baylis, New York, illuminated and other manuscripts of the XIII-XVI centuries, Phillips' Ducks, Audubon's Birds of America ; property of two mid-western private collectors, flower prints ... sets of standard authors and other properties. 23 February 1939
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  • Quaritch cat. 240 (1905)
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  • de Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 1935-1937.
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