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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2940
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: This illuminated Book of Hours is one of only two known surviving products of the collaboration of the workshops of the Boucicaut Hours master (active c. 1390-1430) and of the Rohan master (active c. 1410-1440), who were the leading illuminators in 15th-century Paris. The other Book of Hours tha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2947
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Besançon; Life of St Margaret in verse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, Use of Geneva, including the dedication of the Cathedral of St Peter in Geneva in red (8 October). f. 8r-v: 'Gaude virgo mater Christi'. ff. 9r-12v: Gospel readings. ff. 13r-14v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 15r-16v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 17r-21v: Hours of the Holy ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2950
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar, French (ff. 1r-12v). Created for the marriage of Guillaume de Seigne and Claudine Fortier’s marriage in 1508. ff. 31v-32v, 47v-48v, 132r-134v, 166r-v are blank. Decoration: 22 large miniatures mostly with small decorated initials (2 lines) and f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1510
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2955
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Metz
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French. ff. 14r-60v: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 61r-71v: Penitential Psalms. ff. 72r-75v: Litany. ff. 76r-122v: Office of the Dead. ff. 123r-142v: Prayers to say during the Mass in French, including prayers to Our Lord, the angels, for after the eleva...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2971
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, with erased inscriptions in the margins. ff. 13r-18v: Gospel lessons. ff. 18v-21v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 22r-25r: 'O intemerata'. ff. 26r-83r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 85r-95v: Penitential Psalms. ff. 96r-101r: Litany. ff. 101v-105v: Hours of the Cross...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2972
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Orléans
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Orléans, including a calendar (ff. 2r-13v). Latin, with some French rubrics and headings. Horizontal catchwords. ff. 1v, 110v, 123v, 133v, 208v, 256v are blank. Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2974
Title:: Book of Hours, Use unidentified
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, in French, with saints associated with Metz and Toul, including the translation of St Terentius (16 May), Sts Leguntius and Frominius (16 June), St Mansuetus 'premier evesque de Toul' (3 September), St Gundulf (6 September), St Goericus (19 September), St Libari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2979
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Clermont (Hours of the Virgin), and Use of Brioude (Hours of the Dead)
Scope & Content:: This late 14th-century Book of Hours is especially known for it miniatures by the Workshop of Jean of Toulouse at Avignon. However, the manuscript contains also contains unusual textual items. Amongs these are previously unknown excerpts of the Prologue and Epilogue of Robert of Sorbonne (b. 120...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390- c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2980
Title:: Book of Hours, probably Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar. ff. 14r-19v: Gospel lessons. ff. 20r-23r: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 23v-25v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 26r-37v: Hours of the Virgin, Vespers to Compline only (imperfect due to loss of leaves). ff. 38r-51r: Penitential Psalms. ff. 51r-54r: Litany. ff. 55r-58r: Ho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1470s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2989
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Lisieux
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, in French, with some added saints' days. ff. 13r-16r: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 16v-20r: 'O intemerata'. ff. 20v-25v: Gospel readings. ff. 25v-26r: Prayer to St Sebastian. ff. 27r-72r: Mixed Hours of the Virgin, the Cross and the Holy Spirit (ends imperfectly d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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