Part 1: ff. 1-160

Description: - Parchment - 147 x 97 mm - 16 long lines ruled in pale red ink.

Country: France

Assigned Date: s. XV4/4

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Bâtarde.

Artist(s): Maître François, style of

Figurative Decoration: 9 full-page miniatures with full borders; C-shaped borders with gold on opening leaves of offices.

Other Decoration: 3-line initials on squared gold grounds with infilling of trilobe leaves; 2- and 1-line initials in gold; jigsaw line-fillers or occasionally a single flower.




Text 1: ff. 1-160v

Title: Book of Hours, use of Paris

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Feminine form in prayer, f. 155v. 

Status of text: Missing 2 leaves after f. 45.

Image 1: ff. 12v-13 End of December; holes in f. 13 as if from stitched-on pilgrim badges.

Image 2: f. 14 Miniature: Creation of Eve.

Image 3: f. 21 Miniature: Annunciation as St. Anthony abbot presents the female owner of the book to the Virgin

Image 4: f. 23v Flourished initials.

Image 5: f. 44v Painted and flourished initials; C-shaped border.

Image 6: f. 52 Miniature: Annunciation to the shepherds.

Image 7: f. 57 Miniature: Adoration of the Magi.

Image 8: f. 62 Miniature: Presentation in the temple.

Image 9: f. 67 Miniature: Flight into Egypt.

Image 10: f. 72 Miniature: Coronation of the Virgin.

Image 11: f. 79 Miniature: David in penance before an altar.

Image 12: ff. 93v-94 Litany.

Image 13: f. 97 Miniature: funeral in a church.