Book of Hours

Flanders, 16th century, first quarter

parchment

ii, 229, ii' leaves

205–210 × 140 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 2r–3v) Notes concerning the marriage of François d'Anglure

Note:

Notes in French concerning the marriage between François d'Anglure and Marie de Verre and their children.

f. 1r: ruled but no text;

f. 1v: annotations in pencil in Swedish by a modern hand listing the d'Anglure family during the 16th century.

2 (ff. 4r–15v) Calendar

Note:

Notable feasts:

f. 5r: St Vedast and St Amand (6 Feb.);

f. 6r: St Vindicianus (11 Mar.);

f. 7v: St Ursmar (18 Apr.);

f. 9r: St Landelinus (15 June);

f. 11r: St Gaugericus (11 Aug.);

f. 12r: St Humbert (6 Sep.); St Aichard (15 Sep.);

f. 13r: St Ghislenus (9 Oct.);

f. 13v: St Amatus (19 Oct.); St Amand (26 Oct., translation);

f. 16r: blank.

3 (ff. 16v–29r) Hours of the Holy Cross

Rubric: Incipiunt hore sancte crucis

Incipit: DOmine labia mea aperies [...] PAtris sapientia ueritas diuina

Explicit: sic labori consonans consors sim corone Amen Pater noster

Note: f. 16v: full-page miniature. After f. 23 a leaf is missing. This leaf would have contained a full-page miniature, probably of the Crucifixion.

4 (ff. 29v–39r) Hours of the Holy Spirit

Rubric: hore de sancto spiritu ad matutinas

Incipit: DOmine labia mea aperies [...] NObis sancti spiritus gracia sit data

Explicit: da nobis in eodem spiritu recta sapere et de eius semper consolacione gaudere Per christum dominum nostrum Amen

Note: f. 29v: full-page miniature. ff. 39v–40r : ruled, but no text.

5 (ff. 40v–118r) Hours of the Virgin

Incipit: DOmine labia mea aperies [...] Inuitatorium Aue maria gracia plena

Explicit: a presenti liberari tristicia et eterna perfrui leticia Per christum dominum nostrum Amen

Note: f. 40v: full-page miniature. f. 63r, f. 101r, f. 111r: ruled, but no text.

6 (ff. 118v–131v) Seven penitential psalms

Incipit: DOmine ne in furore tuo arguas

Explicit: ne in eternum irascaris nobis

Note: f. 118v: full-page miniature.

7 (ff. 131v–142v) Litany

Rubric: letania

Incipit: KIrieleyson Christeleyson

Explicit: Requiescant in pace Amen

8 (ff. 143r–147v) Athanasian creed

Rubric: Anathasii de fide

Incipit: QUicunque uult saluus esse

Explicit: saluus esse non poterit Gloria patri Sicut erat

9 (ff. 147v–148r) Responsory/hymn

Rubric: De sancta trinitate antiphona

Incipit: TIbi laus tibi gloria tibi gratiarum actio

Explicit: Qui uiuis et regnas deus per omnia secula seculorum Amen

10 (ff. 148r–150r) Eight Verses of St Bernard

Rubric: Octo uersus sancti bernardi

Incipit: ILlumina oculos meos

Explicit: apud te ualeam impetrare Per christum dominum nostrum Amen

Note: ff. 150v–151r: ruled, but no text.

11 (ff. 151v–205v) Office for the dead

Incipit: antiphona Placebo psalmus DIlexi quoniam exaudiet

Explicit: Qui uiuis et regnas deus per omnia secula seculorum Amen Requiescant in pace Amen

Note: f. 151v: full-page miniature.

12 (ff. 206r–210v) Obsecro te

Rubric: De sancta maria oracio

Incipit: Obsecro te domina sancta

Explicit: Audi et exaudi me dulcissima uirgo maria mater dei et misericordie Amen Pater noster

13 (ff. 210v–214r) O intemerata

Rubric: Sequitur deuota oracio de beata uirgine maria

Incipit: O Intemerata et in eternum uirgo benedicta

Explicit: et in eis uiuit et regnat omnipotens deus in secula seculorum Amen

14 (ff. 214r–229v) Suffrages

Rubric: de sancto michaeli archangelo antiphona

Incipit: DUm preliaretur michael archangelus cum drachone

Explicit: Requiescant in pace AMEN

Note:

f. 214r: St Michael;

f. 214v: John the Baptist;

f. 215v: John the Apostle;

f. 216v: St Peter and St Paul;

f. 217v: Five Saints;

f. 218v: St Sebastian;

f. 219v: St Adrian;

f. 220v: St Anthony;

f. 221v: St Quentin;

f. 222r: St Nicholas;

f. 223r: St Hubert;

f. 223v. St Fiacre;

f. 224r: St Mary Magdalen;

f. 225r: St Anne;

f. 226r: Five virgins;

f. 227r: St Appolonia;

f. 228r: Antiphon for the dead.

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, SL1–SL2, SR1–SR2, RCI

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 210 × 140 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–229v

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 205 × 140 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Collation

Formula: 1-2(8), 3(8, lacks 8), 4-5(8), 6(1+8), 7(8), 8(8+1), 9-12(8), 13(8+1), 14(8), 15(4), 16-19(8), 20(8+1), 21-24(8), 25(6), 26-29(8)

Note: VisColl collation

Signatures: Quire signatures in pencil by a modern hand in the beginning of each new quire.

Catchwords: Catchwords partially visible on f. 31v, the rest lost due to trimming.

Condition

Binding/Endleaves

LCI – SL1: outer edges worn and stained.

Textblock

Small stains throughout. After f. 23 a leaf has been excised.

Layout

Columns: 1

Ruled lines: 15

Written area: 100 × 75 mm

Note: Guidelines and ruling in purple ink.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Gothic textualis.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(f. SL2v) Top of page: one erased line of text followed by 9 lines of text in Swedish about the provenance of the manuscript (see Provenance); below: notes in pencil by Klemming listing the different types of decorations in the manuscript; below: three lines in ink discussing the manuscripts possible connection to two other manuscripts, Bodleian Library MS. Douce 219 and a book of hours made for the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Textblock

(f. 1v) Addition in pencil by a modern hand.

(f. 4r) Bottom of page, in dark ink: a series of monograms surrounding a pentagram.

Decorations

Binding/Endleaves

Description:

(RCI), (f. SL1r), (f. SR2v) and (RCI) are decorated with a glued on paper with a printed diamond grid in blue and red.

Textblock

Description:

Main text in dark brown ink, rubrics in red.

17 full-page miniatures, always matched with a facing page large decorated initial that opens the relevant section. The miniatures are composed as a frame in frame, with an outer decorative border and an inner frame usually shaped as a window or portal. 7 of the outer borders feature realistically painted flowers, birds, and insects placed on a yellow background, e.g. (f. 16v). The other dominating motif for the borders is architectural elements, e.g. (f. 25v). These borders also makes use of smaller frames with text inside, e.g. (f. 89v) where the text ‘o tres regis ’works as a title for the illustration, or (f. 63v) and (f. 64r) which contain two sets of frames with the hymn ‘Gressum cepit cum concepit’. The motifs consist of key scenes associated with the relevant chapter with characters realistically portrayed in contemporary clothing and backgrounds often featuring castles or other buildings (either from the inside or the outside). The use of perspective together with the window-style framing creates a sense of depth. The motifs are as follows:

Images:

(Hours of the Holy Cross) (f. 16v)  Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsemane; (f. 18v) : Flagellation of Christ; (f. 20v) : The Crowning with Thorns; (f. 22v) : Christ Carrying the Cross; (f. 25v) : Lamentation of Christ; (f. 27v) : The Entombment; (Hours of the Holy Spirit) (f. 29v) : Pentecost; (Hours of the Virgin) (f. 40v) : Annunciation; (f. 63v) : Visitation; (f. 77v) : Nativity; (f. 83v) : Annunciation to the Shepherds; (f. 89v) : Adoration of the Magi; (f. 95v) : Presentation in the temple; (f. 101v) : Massacre of the Innocents; (f. 111v) : Flight into Egypt;  (f. 118v) : David in prayer (Seven penitential psalms); (f. 151v) : Raising of Lazarus ( Office for the dead).

Initials:

(ff. 19r–206r): New sections are opened by decorated initials over 4 lines. They have a vegetative/leaf-like shape with yellow-brown colour tones. They are placed on a background of alternating red and blue. The initials and the following text are often surrounded by borders that match that of the facing page miniature. Besides the full-page miniatures the manuscript also contains a set of historiated initials. These extend over 6 lines and are similar in style to the initials described above. The initials are placed on a background of alternating purplish red or greenish blue and is surrounded by a painted border, quarter to three-quarter, containing flower and animal motives on a yellow background. (f. 17r): Christ before Pilate (in grey monochrome on a blue background).  (f. 143r) : The Holy Trinity (Athanasian creed);  (f. 148v) : St Bernard preaching to the devil (Verses of St Bernard);  (f. 211r) : Pietà/Dying Christ/Lamentation of Christ ( O intemerata);  (ff. 214r–228r) : 17 saints (Suffrages). (ff. 17r–228v): A smaller version of the vegetative initials, over 2 lines, are used in the beginning of every paragraph and sometimes an even smaller 1-line initial/capital is used to mark sentences.

Binding

Description:

Modern binding. Redish brown leather over wooden boards. 5 double raised bands and endbands.

LCO, stamped in gold:‘ A 228’.

Binding dimensions: 215 × 150 × 70 mm

Tooling:

Gold tooling. A simple boarder with geometrical patterns on LCO and RCO, floral and vegetative shapes on Spine. All edges are also deocred with gold tooling.

Condition: Leather worn in places. LCO, mark left after a removed label.

History

Origin

Flanders, 16th century, first quarter. The feasts in the calendar point to the diocese of Cambrai. The use of feminine suffixes in the prayers indicates that the manuscript was commissioned by or for a woman. (For examples of suffixes, see f. 208v ‘indigne famule tue’, f. 211v ‘peccatrici’).

Provenance

François d'Anglure, baron of Boursault, owned the manuscript in the early 16th century. The notes on ff. 2r–3v place the manuscript in his ownership in 1523 at the latest. Its later fate is unknown, but by the late 18th century the manuscript belonged to the library of Charles XIII at Rosersberg Palace, where it had the signum ‘n. 1014’. According to the note on f. SL2v it was later acquired by a Frenchman, then belonged to Gustaf Göran Gabriel Oxenstierna and from him the manuscript went to Reinhold Rudbeck (senior) at Edsberg Palace. The additions on f. 4r may be initials of a later owner.