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Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 03018

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Source
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
Library
Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Shelfmark
  • MSS 03018
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • ca. 1450
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Book of hours
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    [168] leaves.
    Note:
    Collation: i¹², ii⁸, iii⁴, iv-xiii⁸, xiv⁷ (of 8, leaf ii wanting), xv-xix⁸, xx⁶.
    Leaf [26] blank but ruled. At least one leaf wanting after [107] with stubs remaining to which two leaves with Crucifixion scenes (at the beginning of the Hours of the Holy Cross) have been glued. The second miniature of the Crucifixion added by previous owner.
    Eighteenth-century brown leather binding, sewn on five raised bands. Upper and lower cover tooled in blind with gilt on spine.
    Batarde script; 1 column of 17 lines.
    Written by several hands in Latin in black ink with ornamental initials in gold, red, and blue; most leaves contain illuminated borders. With thirteen 4-line pink and blue initals on burnished gold grounds with three-quarter illuminated borders on parti-coloured liquid gold ground with birds, acanthus leaves, flowers and foliage.
    With fourteen illuminated miniatures in the style of Maître François, in arched compartments with full borders on parti-coloured liquid gold ground.
    Leaves [162-168] consists of a series of devotional prayers in French rhyming verse.
    The liturgical calendar follows the Paris usage, with special attention given to the feasts of saints peculiar to that region (e.g. Sts Genevieve, Louis, Denis).
    Binding error in calendar: May bound after June and July bound after August.
    The 'Obsecro te' is intended here for use by a male. Cf. leaf [21v].
    Pages cropped.
    Title from contents.
    Purchase; Konstantinopel; 2015; MS.15.077.
    Genre:
    Illumination--Specimens--France--15th century
    Religious calendars--Specimens--France--15th century
    Subject:
    Catholic Church France
    Catholic Church Prayers and devotions Early works to 1800
    Manuscripts, Latin
    Books of hours--Manuscripts--Texts
    Books of hours--France--Paris
    Manuscripts, Medieval
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)
    • France: Ile-de-France (Sens?)
    • France: Fleury; Reims?
    • France (Southern France?)
    • France: Fleury
    • France: probably Auxerre
    • France: evidently Eastern France
    • Central- or southern France
    • France, Vienne
    • [France]
    • Paris (?)
    • France (Paris?) or Flanders
    • France (3rd part)
    • Strassburg (probably)
    • Paris (?) or Tours (?)
    • France (Normandy?)
    • Rouen (?) or Paris (?)
    • France: Champagne, Burgundy or Centre
    • Lyon or Luxeuil (?)
    • France (Besançon?)
    • France (Paris?)
    • France, Northern (probably)
    • Probably Eastern France
    • St. Denis near Paris (monastery) (?)
    • Tours (?)
    • France (possibly near the court)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • [Provence?]
    • France, East (?)
    • France, Northeast?
    • France, Pontigny (or Paris?)
    • France, North?
    • France, Paris?
    • France, Diocese of Limoges?
    • France, Auxerre or area
    • France, Burgundy?
    • France, Brittany or Paris?
    • France, Angers?
    • France, Normandy?
    • France, East?
    • France, Bourges?
    • France, Anjou?
    • France, Northwest?
    • France, Tours?
    • France (probably Paris)
    • France, Europe
    • SW France?
    • FR
    • [FR]
    • Frankreich (Angers?)
    • Frankrijk (?)
    • Gallia
    • Gallia (Frankrijk)
    • Gallia? (Frankrijk?)
    • Frankreich (I.)
    • Frankreich (III.)
    • Frankreich (III)
    • Frankreich (II)
    • Frankreich (I)
    • I./III. Frankreich
    • II. Frankreich
    • Frankreich (Ergänzung)
    • [Frankrijk]
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  • Preferred form
    • Paris (France) (?)
    Original form
    • Paris?
Rights
  • For rights and reproduction information please contact fisher.library@utoronto.ca
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