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Book of Hours : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-126v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; f. 13r-v: 2 coats of arms; ff. 14-19: Pericopes of the Gospels; f. 19v, with decorative border, but no text; ff. 20-23v: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 24-27: Short hours of the Cross; f. 27v, blank; ff. 28-64: Hours of the Virgin of undetermined use; f. 64v, blank; ff. 65-78v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 79-83v: Obsecro te and O intemerata; ff. 84-114v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 114v-116v: Deus propicius esto michi peccatori; ff. 117-124: Prayers added in 16th c., including one in French; ff. 124v-125: blank; ff. 125v-126: An indulgence granted to those who say certain prayers before the images contained in this book, issued by an unidentified bishop"Richard Pauli Stravius par la grace de Dieu et du Saint Siege Apostolique Evesque de Denis...Donne a Rullant le 29me de Jullet 1652, Par ordonance de Monsieur le R., Charle Briffor secretaire.".
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Date
[between 1450 and 1499]
Call number
mssHM 1173
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Among the early owners were members of the family of Berlaymont as indicated by a death note on f. ii for "michiel de Berlaymont" dated 1516; notes on f. 10r-v give the death date of 1558 for "ma femme" whose body was brought to Berlaymont for burial, and again the date of 1558 for the dedication of the church of Berlaymont by the suffragan bishop of Cambrai. Two coats of arms added on f. 13r-v, on a leaf perhaps originally ruled and decorated for a calendar page probably represent the arms of Charles de Berlaymont, Baron of Lens and Knight of the Golden Fleece (1510-78) and his wife, Adrienne, daughter of Louis de Ligne, Baron of Barbaçon. The arms are, f. 13, encircled by a Renaissance wreath, per pale, I, arms of Berlaymont of Namur province (Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 187); II, quarterly 1 and 4, arms of Ligne (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 65); 2 and 3, arms of Barbaçon of Hainaut (Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 121); on f. 13v, the arms of Berlaymont encircled by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, presumably added between 1556, when Charles received the Golden Fleece, and his death in 1578. The manuscript was in the possession of a book dealer of Prague, Alexander Storch, in November 1896; Christie's, 9 April 1900, n. 234 (bought in); Catalogue 96 (March 1901) of Ellis and Elvey, pp. 1-6 with a long description by J. W. Bradley. Acquired by E. Dwight Church; in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 401 with a plate of f. 24. The Church collection was purchased by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
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Dimensions
145 x 205 mm
Associated people
Marmion, Simon, (1420-1489,)
Church, Elihu Dwight, (1835-1908,)
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