Books of hours.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books containing the prescribed order of prayers, readings from the Scripture, and rites for the canonical hours.
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century book of hours, according to the Use of Paris, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.12
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Eloi (24 June) and Marcel (3 November) (folio 2).(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 14).(iii) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 54).(iv) Hours of the Cross (folio 72).(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 76).(vi) Office of the Dead (folio 79 verso).(vii) The Sept Requestes and a hymn to the Cross in...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century book of hours, according to the Use of Paris, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.13
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French, in red, blue and gold (folio 1). Entries in gold include Saints Genevieve (3 January), Stephen (3 August), Lupus and Giles (1 September) and Denis (9 October). St Martial appears in red on 26 July.(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 14).(iii) `Obsecro te` (in the masculine form), `O intemerata` (in the feminine form) and suffrages to St Sebastian. (folio 20 verso)(iv) Hours of the Blessed...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Italy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 1). The Te Deum at Matins is replaced by the canticle ‘Te matrem laudamus’. The Hours are followed (folio 77 verso) by the same office for Advent.(ii) Gradual and Penitential Psalms (folio 95 verso).(iii) Litany and prayers (folio 128).(iv) Office of the Dead (folio 141 verso).(v) Hours of the Cross (folio 199 verso).(vi) Office of the Cross (folio...
Dates:
15th century.
'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Calendar in black, blue and red (folio 3). Entries in red include Saints Edward (18 March) and Dunstan (19 May), `Depositio sancti Augustini` (26 May), ordination of St Gregory (3 September) and translations of Saints Hugh (6 October) and Edward (13 October).(ii) Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent (folio 9) and from Christmas to the Purification (folio 11 verso).(iii) Confession, attributed in the...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Book of hours, according to the use of Amiens.
Item
Identifier: MS.8893
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Firmin (13 January, 1 and 25 September) and Fuscian (11 December). A table for determining the date of Easter is included in March. (Folio 1.)
(ii) St John's Gospel, I, volumes 1-14, and prayers. (Folio 13.)
(iii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Folio 17.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 76.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 88.)
(vi) 'Deus propicius esto', 'Obsecro te' and Suffrages, including Saints Fiacre and...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: MS.10981
Scope and Contents
(i) Suffrage to St Anthony and a prayer to the Virgin, 'Veni vena venie'. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 3.)
(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata'. (Folio 9.)
(iv) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 17.)
(v) Penitential psalms, litany hymn 'Salve sancta caro Dei' (U. Chevatier, ‘Repertorium hymnologicum’ (Louvain, 1892-1921), number 18175) and prayers (Folio 80.)
(vi) Hours of the Cross. Matins and Lauds are missing. (Folio 106.)
(vii) Hours of the Holy Ghost. Matins and Lauds and...
Dates:
1st half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, probably written in Padua.
File
Identifier: MS.9742
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 1 verso.)
(ii) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 97.)
(iii) Mass of the Virgin from the Common of Saints. The text up to the Gospel has been deleted with red paint. (Folio 129.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 133.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 138.)
(vi) Office of the Dead. (Folio 145.)Written in littera semi-gothica textualis. Folio 9 appears to have been written after folio 10. Folios 94 verso-96, 128,...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Florence.
Item
Identifier: MS.9743
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in red and brown, KL monograms in blue. Entries include Saints Aquilinus (15 May, in red), Clare of Assisi (12 August), and Nicholas of Tolentino (10 September). Folios 13-14 are blank but ruled. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 15.)(iii) Office of the Dead. (Folio 81.)(iv) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 119.)(v) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 140.)(vi) Hours of the...
Dates:
[Circa 1450-circa 1460.]
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.12
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in red, blue and gold (folio 1). Entries in gold include Saints Martial (3 July), Stephen (3 August), Romain (23 October) and Thomas (29 December). A number of feasts of the Rouen diocese appear in red or blue, including the translation of St Ouen (5 May), and Notre-Dame des Neiges (5 August) instituted in 1454.(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 7).(iii) Prayers (folio 9), including ‘Obsecro te`, `O intemerata’ (in the masculine form) and `Ave...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Book of Hours, according to the use of Sarum, written and illuminated in the Netherlands.
Item
Identifier: MS.16499
Scope and Contents
For further details see ‘Medieval manuscripts in British libraries’ by Neil R Ker, volume 2 (Oxford, 1977), pages 581-583.The contents are as follows:
(i) Calendar (folio 1). The only English saint, St Thomas Becket (29 December), has been erased.
(ii) Oes of St Bridget. (Folio 13.)
(iii) Prayers. (Folio 23.)
(iv) Memoriae of Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Thomas Becket, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, Barbara, and Margaret. (Folio 27.)
Folio 37 verso blank.
(v)...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Book of hours, according to the use of Utrecht, made in the second half of the 15th century in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was made in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black (folio 1). Entries in red include Saints Ponciaen (14 January), Pancraes (12 May), Servaes (14 May), Odulf (13 June), Lebuin (25 June and 12 November), and Geroen (17 August).(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 13).(iii) Hours of the Cross (folio 44).(iv) Hours of the Holy...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Utrecht, written in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland, in the second half of the 15th-century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was made in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar and table of Golden Numbers in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Servatius (13 May), Jero (17 August) and Lambert (17 September). June and November are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a hymn `Ave rosa sine spinis’ (‘Repertorium hymnologicum’, number 2084), and `Obsecro te`. (Folio...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Dupuy book of hours, produced in Flanders in the late 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.18
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in gold, blue and red (folio 1). It includes Saints Lubin, bishop of Chartres (14 March and 15 September), Pavasce (16 June), Mello (22 October) and Maclou (15 November).(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 7).(iii) `Obsecro te` and ‘O intemerata` (folio 10 verso).(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the use of Rome (folio 15). Matins of the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit are inserted between Lauds and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Fragments of liturgical and other medieval manuscripts.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21097-21100
Dates:
13th century-15th century.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm of Bohun Psalter. Hours and Psalter according to the use of Sarum, made in England for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.83
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Microfilm of Book of hours, according to the use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.533
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, probably written in Padua.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2056
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Microfilm of book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Florence.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2057
Dates:
[Circa 1450-circa 1460.]
Microfilm of Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1139
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Microfilm of book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1200
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Microfilm of books of hours and a book of devotions.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.535-536
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of Psalter of French provenance; and, Book of hours.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.532
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Psalter of French provenance, 2nd half of 15th century, written for a community of Dominican nuns (MS.7122);
Book of hours, 2nd half of 15th century, probably according to the Use of Rome (MS.7124).
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Microfilm of ‘Roman de la Rose’, [circa 1230, circa 1270]; and, ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.520
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 14th or early 15th century, of ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270 (Adv.MS.19.1.7);
‘The Talbot Hours’, Psalter and Hours, 15th century (Dep.221/1).
Dates:
[Circa 1230]-15th century.