Contents: The calendar (ff. 1-12v). Gospel pericopes and the
popular Prayer to the Virgin (ff. 13r-20r). The passion narrative,
from John 18-19, followed by three prayers (ff. 21r-30v). A
sequence of twelve prayers (ff. 30v-44v). Three prayers to the
Virgin (ff. 45r-50r). Sequence of prayers (ff. 50v-69v). Nine brief
prayers for the dead (ff. 70r-77v). End of De divinis nominibus
(ff. 78r-78v). The hours of the Virgin, succeeded by the daily
Psalms for Matins (ff. 79v-137r). The hours of the Passion (ff.
138-40). The hours of the Holy Spirit (ff. 140v-155r). The
Penitential Psalms and Litany (ff. 156v-171r). The Office of the
Dead (ff. 171v-207v). Suffrages (ff. 207v-228v). Salue crux sancta
(ff. 229r-234v). Glorieuse vierge marie A toy me rends et si te
prie... (ff. 234v-236v). Thirteen further prayers to the Virgin
(ff. 237r-257v).
Extent: ff. 259 (numbered ff. 1-258, but the rear pastedown,
unnumbered, is part of the production). 118 x 80 mm.
Layout: In long lines, 21 / 22 lines to the page. No signs of
pricking; bounded and ruled in red ink.
Hand: Written in French bastard secretary (lettre bâtarde).
Decoration: Headings often in red, but also in text ink, a small
cursive, crammed into inadequate spaces left in the copying. All
leaves have full borders, with vine and flower designs (some
animals and birds) in a variety of colours. At the major divisions,
in association with large illuminations, four-line light blue
lombards with red and gold grounds, with gold leaf centres and
painted flowers. The prayers are divided by two-line champes in
gold leaf with red and blue. At the openings of sections,
seven-line illuminations: fol. 40: Jesus and the implements of the
Crucifixion; fol. 212: John the evangelist with the poisoned cup;
fol. 220v: Stephen holding an open book and palm branch; fol. 221:
Laurence with a book and griddle; fol. 222: Anne teaching the
Virgin to read. In addition, at the openings of the Hours,
illuminations of about half the page area: fol. 21r (the Passion
narrative): Jesus in Gethsemane; fol. 79v (Matins): the
Annunciation; fol. 88r (Lauds): the Visitation (in background, an
impressionistic depiction of a classical rotunda); fol. 97r
(Prime): the Nativity; fol. 101v (Tierce): the angel appears to the
shepherds; fol. 105v (Sext): the Adoration of the Magi (Balthasar
black); fol. 109v (Nones): the Presentation at the Temple; fol.
113v (Vespers): the flight into Egypt; fol. 120v (Compline): the
Coronation of the Virgin; fol. 140v (Matins of the Hours of the
Holy Spirit): Pentecost, with the kneeling Virgin in the
foreground; fol. 148 (Lauds): Anne and Joachim embracing outside
the Golden Gate; fol. 156v (the Penitential Psalms): David kneeling
bareheaded before an altar lit by beams coming through a window;
fol. 171v (the Office of the Dead): the raising of Lazarus. Otto
Pächt’s note in the Library’s copy of Kitchin’s catalogue
identified the artist as ‘School of Bourdichon’ and the
calendar with Paris. He thus identifies the style with the circle
around Jean Bourdichon of Tours (?1457-?1521), illuminator at the
French royal court.
Binding: 17th century purple velvet with an embroidered leaf design
in gold and silver thread over millboards. Sewn on three thongs.
Pastedowns old parchment. All leaves gilt-edged, now very worn.
Additional information: Ralph Hanna and David Rundle, A Descriptive
Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts, to c. 1600, in Christ Church,
Oxford (Oxford, 2017), pp. 221-225. Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford
Libraries,
http://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_3907. For a
detailed description, please see
www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/digital-library.
Provenance: There is no indication of the volume’s whereabouts
before its receipt by Christ Church: ‘from Abp Wake’s
Collection’ (in pencil on the bookplate). The manuscript appears
in Wake’s autograph schedule (MS 352/8, fol. 2) under octavo and
smaller volumes: ‘An antient Rituall in 12o: Illuminated’. As
with MSS 93 and 94, the possibility cannot be excluded that Wake
came by this manuscript while he was in France, in 1682-85.
Place
Preferred form
France
Original form
France
Other form
France (Paris ? Fontainebleau ?)
France.
France (?)
Lieu de copie : France ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 327
France ?
France -- 16e siècle
Frankreich
França
Francia
Frankrijk
Abbaye de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abadia de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abtei Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abadía de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abdij van Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Région de la Loire (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
Loire Region (Abbey of Fleury?)
Regió del Loira (Abadia de Fleury ?)
Región del Loira (Abadía de Fleury ?)
France (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
França (Abadia de Fleury?)
Francia (Abadía de Fleury?)
France (Abbey of Fleury?)
Frankreich (Abtei Fleury?)
Frankrijk (Abdij van Fleury?)
France (est : Lorraine ?)
França (est: Lorena?)
Ostfrankreich (Lothringen?)
Eastern France (Lorraine?)
Francia (este: Lorena?)
Lothringen
Lorena
Lotharingen
Lorraine
França (Borgonya?)
France (Burgundy?)
Francia (Borgoña)
France (Bourgogne ?)
Frankrijk (Bourgondië?)
France (Bretagne ?)
França (Bretanya?)
Frankreich (Bretagne?)
France (Brittany?)
Francia (Bretaña)
Frankrijk (Bretagne?)
France (ouest : Bretagne ?)
Western France (Brittany?)
França (oest: Bretanya?)
Francia (oeste: Bretaña?)
Frankrijk (westen) (Bretagne?)
Westfrankreich: Bretagne?
Bretagne
Bretanya
Bretaña
Brittany
Probably the Loire region
France: Auxerre or Brittany
France: Fleury. vicinity of Paris (Saint-Denis?) (Bischoff)
