Part 1: ff. 1r-108v

Description: - Parchment - 128 x 75 mm - 21 long lines; ruled in pale red ink; 17-19 long lines for scribe 2's stint.

Country: France

Cardinal point: northern

City: Bourges (?)

Assigned Date: s. XV4/4

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 2; scribe 2, ff. 63r-64v and 66r-67v

Script: Bâtarde.

Figurative Decoration: 11 miniatures in square frames; 24 small miniatures for calendar; borders and initials inhabited with a variety of animals.

Other Decoration: 2-line initials in white-patterned pink or blue on square gold grounds; 1-line initials in gold on grounds of alternating red and blue or red and black; borders the height of the text on painted gold grounds; line fillers of gold logs.

Notes: Stubs of 10 missing leaves stored in box with codex.




Text 1: ff. 4r-108r

Title: Book of Hours, use of Rome

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Some calendar entries in French; headings in French beginning f. 96v. 

Image 1: ff. iii verso - 1r Notes regarding various opinions on the manuscript, possibly by Dawson Turner.

Image 2: ff. 1v-2r Table of contents attributed to the Rev. Frederick Charles Husenbeth; note of acquisition by Dawson Turner.

Image 3: ff. 3v-4r Calendar, January.

Image 4: ff. 4v-5r Calendar, February and March.

Image 5: ff. 5v-6r Calendar, April and May.

Image 6: ff. 6v-7r Calendar, June and July.

Image 7: ff. 7v-8r Calendar, August and September.

Image 8: ff. 8v-9r Calendar, October and November.

Image 9: ff. 9v-10r Calendar, December; miniature, Luke.

Image 10: ff. 10v-11r Miniature: Matthew.

Image 11: ff. 25v-26r Miniature: Visitation.

Image 12: ff. 33v-34r Miniature: Nativity.

Image 13: ff. 35v-36r Miniature: Annunciation to the shepherds.

Image 14: ff. 38v-39r Miniature: Adoration of the Magi.

Image 15: ff. 40v-41r Miniature: Presentation in the temple.

Image 16: ff. 47v-48r Initials inhabited by small animals; line fillers of twigs.

Image 17: ff. 60v-61r Litany.

Image 18: ff. 67v-68r Marginal grotesque wearing a sweater; change of hand.

Image 19: ff. 77v-78r Borders in geometric patterns.

Image 20: ff. 93v-94r Miniature: Trinity.

Image 21: ff. 94v-95r Miniatures, St. Michael and St. Andrew with his cross; rubric for suffrage of John the Baptist, f. 94v, indicating a missing leaf.

Image 22: ff. 95v-96r Miniature: Stoning of St. Stephen; rubric for suffrage of St. Lawrence, f. 95v, indicating a missing leaf.

Image 23: ff. 96v-97r Headings in French.

Image 24: ff. 107v-108r End of text.


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Part 2: ff. v-vi

Description: - Parchment - 130 x 115 mm

Country: France (?)

Assigned Date: Undetermined

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Notes: Fragment of a leaf from another manuscript folded in half as original pastedown; now bound into codex as a bifolium.




Text 1: f. vi recto-verso

Title: Extracts from the Glossa Ordinaria

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Commentary from the Glossa Ordinariaon 3 Kings VI.16 and on Paralipomenon III.6. 

Image 25: ff. v verso - vi recto Mirror imprint of text on f. iv verso.

Image 26: f. vi verso Imprint of original binding cords visible.