[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Other titles: Book of hours (Leeds University Library. MS 498)
Classmark: MS 498
Publication city: [France]
Date(s): [ca. 1450-1500]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (101 leaves) (1 column, 14 lines; ruled in brown ink)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/bwjjfdhj
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372713
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
The quire signatures (b-o) indicate a missing quire at the beginning of the manuscript (a calendar).
Decoration: One full-page miniature (Virgin and Child) and two smaller miniatures. One 4-line historiated initial and one framed floral border, now worn. Several 2 to 4-line initials in gold on pink and blue grounds infilled with white penwork flowers.
Accompanied by transcripts and ultra-violet photographs of the inscriptions on the front paste-down and on f. 101v, made by Dr N. R. Ker and Mr P.S. Morrish in January-March 1981.
Written in textualis semi-quadrata.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-6v Prayers in French and Latin; ff. 7r-12v Gospel Sequences; ff. 13r-69r Hours of the Virgin, Use of Autun; ff. 69r-72v Hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 76r-94v Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 95r-99r Obsecro te; ff. 99r-101r Prayers.
Bequeathed in 1952 by the book collector R. A. Hellewell of Bradford. Acquired by Hellewell in 1934 from books formerly belonging to the collector and art historian Randall Davies.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 22-24.
Features
Bindings
Early 16th-century French binding of gilt leather over pasteboards.
Provenance
The manuscript includes two 17th-century inscriptions in French: the one inside the cover indicates that the manuscript belonged to Denis Grison of Villangrette in 1639, and the one on f. 101v shows that sometime in the 17th century (16?2) it belonged to Emilland Gey, who exchanged it with Himbert Jolicwe.
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