Part 1: ff. 1r-247v

Description: - Parchment - 126 x 87 mm - 12 long lines ruled in ink.

Country: France

Cardinal point: western

City: Angers (?)

Assigned Date: s. XV2

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: Several.

Script: Bâtarde.

Figurative Decoration: 1 unfinished miniature; 3 large miniatures added ca. 1500 in spaces originally left blank; offsets from 5 excised miniatures.

Other Decoration: Large initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery; some initials finished at a later date in a different style.

Notes: Several leaves missing; decoration in various stages of completion.




Text 1: ff. 1r-247r

Title: Book of Hours

Language(s): Latin; French

Image 1: f. 1r Calendar; Saint Julian, first bishop of Le Mans in red.

Image 2: ff. 12v-13r Offset from annunciation miniature and border from leaf that is now missing.

Image 3: ff. 23v-24r Large initial "O" completed in a different style.

Image 4: ff. 24v-25r Large initial "E" completed in a different style; border styles of rectos and versos designed as mirror images of each other (see border of f. 24r).

Image 5: f. 39v Unfinished initial.

Image 6: f. 46r Unfinished miniature: the Visitation.

Image 7: f. 75r Miniature: the Scourging of Christ.

Image 8: ff. 61v-62r Offset from excised miniature.

Image 9: f. 69v Offset from excised miniature.

Image 10: f. 76v Unfinished miniature and initial.

Image 11: f. 91r Unfinished miniature.

Image 12: f. 81v Miniature: the Carrying of the Cross.

Image 13: f. 96v Unfinished text added in a later hand.

Image 14: ff. 114v-115r Litany with several styles of line filler.

Image 15: ff. 119v-120r Change of hand.

Image 16: ff. 123v-124r Change of hand; offset from excised miniature: the Ascension or Last Judgment.

Image 17: f. 137v Unfinished border.

Image 18: ff. 134v-135r Completed ruling and border without text.

Image 19: f. 191r Unfinished border.

Image 20: f. 191v Unfinished border.

Image 21: ff. 215v-216r Prayers in French; catchword.

Image 22: f. 229r Miniature: Virgin and Child Enthroned.

Image 23: f. 236r Unfinished initial; prayer in French.

Image 24: f. 246r Text ends imperfectly.