Descriptive Information

Title

[Book of hours : use of Paris].

Call Number

Garrett MS. 48

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcxk81k059k

Publisher

[Paris, France], [between 1420 and 1430?]

Language

Latin

Date Created

1420-1430

Format

Manuscript

Extent

105 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 215 x 157 (112 x 70) mm bound to 222 x 170 mm.

Provenance

Early provenance on this portion of the manuscript unknown. Owned by John Boykett Jarman from whose collection is was sold by Sotheby's, London in 1864. Acquired by William Boone. Later acquired John and Alice Garrett. By 1916 owned by Robert Garrett, Class of 1897. His gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 79-82.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Contents

1. fol. 1r-11v: [Prayers]

2. fol. 12r-19v: [Suffrages to the Trinity, Virgin Mary, etc.]

3. fol. 20r-56v: [Long hours of the cross]

4. fol. 57r-60v: [Seven requests to Our Lord]

5. fol. 61r-105v: [Office of the dead, use of Paris]

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title devised by cataloger.

Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (modern) + 105 + ix (modern) ; catchwords ; foliation in ink.

Layout: 16 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.

Decoration: Parisian, by the Rohan Master. Major divisions have 2- to 4-line initials on gold ground; minor divisions have 2-line champide initials and line-filler. Outer borders of all pages have foliate and floral patterns. 11 large and 33 small miniatures on 11 pages: on each page, one three-quarter page, arched miniature surrounded by three rectangular vignettes, usually with diapered grounds. Colors of royal blue, vermilion red, pink, mauve, lavender, beige, green and yellow-green.

Origin: Written and illuminated in Paris. Originally formed part of another Book of Hours, now in Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 647.

Binding Note

Later binding. 19th century, English. Red velvet over wooden boards. Edges gilt and gauffered. Multi-colored endbands. Binding packed with printer's waste in English. In case, 18th-century French red-morocco tooled with gold (247 x 183 mm).

Discovery Information

Subject

Books of hours—France—Paris—Early works to 1800

Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

234

Institutional Information

Collection

Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/07afa875-bf9d-4b01-8607-0d28141f5d24/manifest

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