BOOK Of HOURS. [A hand-written and illustrated Book of Hours. N.p.:

BOOK Of HOURS. [A hand-written and illustrated Book of Hours. N.p.: Rouen[?], circa 1500.] 122pp., 61ff., manuscript, 8vo (204 x 122mm.) Text in Latin, Calendar in French (f.2-4), textualis script in brown ink on parchment, 25 lines per leaf with lines faintly ruled in red ink, with 1-line initials alternating in red and blue with liquid gold, and also 2-line initials with red or gold panels and blue, red and grey infills and white flourishing, sectional 3-line initials with gold panels and red, grey, blue infills and white flourishing; 16 hand-coloured miniatures, being 5 eight-lines in length and 11 thirteen-lines in length (f.5r, f.12r, f.17r, f.23r, f.26v, f.28v, f.30v, f.33r, f.35r, f.38r, f.48r) and 1 full-page having acanthus leaf borders in red, blue, green and brown and six diamond-shaped beige panels and flowering foliage; paragraph marks in red and blue, heightened with gold. (A few small stains and creases, f.33 with smudging, the demon on f.48 has been rubbed, nearly erased.) Mid-20th century vellum, hand-painted lettering and decoration to spine (endpapers replaced). Note: text: f.1 [blank]; f.2-4v Calendar; f.5-7v Gospel Extracts John, Matthew, Mark, Luke; f.8-11 Obresco te and O Intemerata; f.11v ‘Les Dix Comandemes de la loy’ in rhyming couplets; f.12-38 Hours of the Virgin and Hours of the Holy Cross; f.38-43 Seven Penitential Psalms; f.44v-46 Litany of Saints; f.48-61 Office of the Dead. The text ends on f.61 after the 9th reading from Job 10:18-22. The miniatures are: 1) f.5r Saint John on Patmos with his eagle 2) f.6r Saint Luke with his winged ox 3) f.6v Saint Matthew with an angel 4) f.7v Saint Mark with his hybrid lion 5) f.8r Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus 6) f.10r Virgin Mary holding the child Christ 7) f.12r the Annunciation 8) f.17r the Visitation showing Virgin Mary meeting Elizabeth 9) f.23r the Crucifixion 10) f.26r the Annunciation to the Shepherds 11) f.28v Adoration of the Magi 12) f.30v Presentation of Christ 13) f.33r Flight into Egypt 14) f.35r Coronation of the Virgin Mary 15) f.38r David in Prayer 16) f.48r Job on the dung-heap attacked by a demon. The Calendar has ‘Les Reliques’ as a feast day for December 3rd, and also Saint Leu and Saint Mellon in March and Saint Romanus all suggest that the book was most likely made in Rouen. Provenance: Linsdall Richardson, geologist; F.G. Littlejohns. Linsdall Richardson gifted the book to F.G. Littlejohns in 1946.

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