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Book of Hours: Use of Toul: Manuscript

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Call Number:
(SPC) MSS 133
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
0.1 linear feet (1 volume)
Language Note:
In Latin, with calendar, most rubrics, and a few accessory texts (71r-73v, 74r-74v) in Middle French.
Preferred Citation:
Book of Hours: Use of Toul: Manuscript. (SPC) MSS 133, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
between 1450 and 1499 (inclusive)
Creator:
Hodgkinson, Sampson and Bosviel, Pierre
Form:
Codices (bound manuscripts), Books of hours -- France -- 15th century, Devotional calendars, illuminated manuscripts, Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century, Manuscripts, French -- 15th century, and Devotional literature
Abstract:

Book of hours made in northeastern France following the use of Toul in the Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead, with Infancy Cycle, miniatures for the Hours of the Virgin. Includes a calendar, brief Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit beofre the Hours of the Virgin; and the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Office of the Dead after, along with various prayers in Latin and French. Not included are the usual Marian prayer O intemerata and Gospel readings from Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Additional suffrages in a later hand (ca. 1500) to Saints Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and Peter and Paul (f. 123r-124r), perhaps an excerpt from another manuscript.

Parchment, ii (19th c. parchment) + 124 + ii (19th c. parchment); 1¹² 2-8⁸ 9⁶ 10-15⁸ 16², modern foliation [1-124] in pencil, upper right recto.

Written in 17 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink.

Written in a Gothic bookhand.

12 arched miniatures: above 5 lines of text with 3- or 4-line initials on burnished gold with full foliate and floral borders of acanthus and ivy leaves (Crucifixion, f. 13r; Pentecost, f. 16r; Annunciation, f. 19r; Visitation, f. 28r; Nativity, f. 37v; Annunciation to the shepherds, f. 42v; Adoration of the Magi, f. 46r; Presentation in the Temple, f. 49v; flight into Egypt, f. 53r; massacre of the Innocents, f. 59r; King David in prayer with harp on the ground, f. 75r; raising of Lazarus, f. 90r). 2-line initials in gold on blue and pink and 1-line initials alternating between gold with purple penwork and blue with red penwork throughout. Geometric line ending in blue, pink and gold in Litany (f. 84v-87r).

19th-century grosgrain morocco over wooden boards, covers decorated with blind-stamped frame; gilt fleurons on covers and spine, edges gilt, probaby English (Les Enluminures).

Written and illuminated in the Lorraine or Champagne regions of northeastern France, ca. 1450-1475. With later notes (ca. 1500) added.

  • 1. f.1r-12v: [Calendar]
  • 2. f.13r-15v: Heures de la crois.
  • 3. f.16r-18v: Hore Sancti Spiritus.
  • 4. f.19r-28r: Heures de nostre dame [Matins]
  • 5. f.28v-37r: Ad laudes.
  • 6. f.37v-42r: Ad terciam [Prime]
  • 7. f.42v-45v: Ad terciam.
  • 8. f.46r-49r: Ad sextam.
  • 9. f.49v-52v: Ad nonam.
  • 10. f.53r-58v: Ad vesperas.
  • 11. f.59r-63r: [Compline]
  • 12. f.63r-64v: Initium sancti evangelii secundum Iohannem.
  • 13. f.64v-66v: [Latin prayers and hymn: Rex gloriose, Salve regina, Veni creator]
  • 14. f.66v-67r: Les viii vers Saint Bernard.
  • 15. f.67v-68r: Memoire de Saint Nicholas.
  • 16. f.68r-68r: Memoire de Sainte Katherine.
  • 17. f.68v-71r: Obsecro te.
  • 18. f.71v-73r: [French prayers to the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Trinity]
  • 19. f.73v-74r: [Prayer for elevation of the host]
  • 20. f.74r-74v: Les x commandemens de la loy premierement.
  • 21. f.74v: Les vii pechies mortelz, les vii remedes.
  • 22. f.75r-84v: Les vii psalmes.
  • 23. f.84v-89v: Letania.
  • 24. f.90r-122v: [Office of the Dead, use of Toul]
  • 25. f.123r-124r: [Added suffrages]

Formerly owned by Sampson Hodgkinson; loaned by him to the National Exhibition of Works of Art held in Leeds in 1868, no. 586. Label from exhibition on last flyleaf.

Sold at auction at the Hôtel Drouot (Roger Glandaz, auctioneer), 2 June 1933, lot 34 (pencil note, inside lower cover).

Purchased by "GV" at a sale on 14 Dec. 1967 (pencil note, inside lower cover).

Formerly owned by Pierre Bosviel (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Purchased from Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2010.

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Publisher
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Finding Aid Author
Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
Finding Aid Date
August 2023

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