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  • [Part 1, Front endleaves]: Author: Bernard of Clairvaux, (French saint, abbot, writer, 1090-1153), Author: Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179 ** Language: Latin. Incipit: // quam simplex absque nota, quam fidelis et deuota. Explicit: <fragran>tia ungentis optimis <oleum effusum ... > //. Folio range: [i]r-[ii]r ** Language: Latin. Incipit: Docet nos bernard. Disce in referendo graciam non esse tardus aut segnis. Explicit: siccans sibi fontem pietatis. rorem misericordie, fluenta gracie. Item Bernardus ad exercitium huma<...>. Folio range: [ii]v ** Language: Latin. Supplied title: O virga mediatrix and another hymn. Incipit: Allera (sic) O uirgo mediatrix sancta uiscera tua motem (sic) superauerunt. Explicit: Kyrie eleysen <....> eleisen //. Folio range: [ii]v
  • [Part 2, Principal bookblock]: Language: Latin. Modern title: Calendar. Folio range: 1r-6v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Hours of the Virgin. Incipit: DOMINE labia mea aperies. Explicit: Benedicamus domino. Deo gracias. Folio range: 7r-36r ** Language: Latin. Supplied title: Selected Psalms and Divine Office. Scribal title: Diz ist Svnnendac. Prima. Incipit: Deus in adiutorium meum intende. Explicit: et lucem nobis concede perpetuam. Per dominum. Folio range: 36r-96v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Penitential Psalms. Scribal title: Die Sibin salmin. Incipit: Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me. Explicit: quoniam ego seruus tuus sum. Folio range: 96v-105r ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Litany. Scribal title: Letania. Incipit: Kyrieleison. Christeleison. Christe audi nos. Explicit: et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti dominus per omnia secula seculorum amen. Folio range: 105r-108v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Long Hours of the Holy Spirit. Scribal title: Diz ist des heiligin geistis cvrs. Incipit: Domine labia mea aperies. Explicit: et mundo corde placeamus. Per dominum nostrum iesum. Folio range: 109r-116v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Office of the Dead. Scribal title: S. agneia.. Incipit: DILEXI quoniam exaudiet dominus uocem oracionis mee. Explicit: INclina domine aurem tuam ad preces nostras quibus misericordiam tuam suppliciter deprecam<ur> //. Folio range: 117r-145v
  • [Part 3, Back endleaf]: Language: Latin. Folio range: [i]r-v
  • [Part 4, Intruded quire]: Language: Latin. Incipit: <.> pax est dilectis dei. Explicit: Quid ego miserrimus quid dicam uel quid faciam dum nil boni perferam ante tantum iudicem. libera me domine de //. Folio range: 147r-154r
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Time Period
  • Second half of the 13th-century, 15th-century additions and repairs
Place of Origin
  • Germany
Description
  • A thirteenth-century Book of Hours in a medieval binding, with binding fragments. Fifteenth-century additions and repairs. The final quire was intruded between the original rear pastedown (raised) and the rear board, sometime after binding.
Call Number
  • BX2000 .A2 1200z
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • luc_017_001
Keywords
  • Fascicular codex
  • Devotion
  • Illumination
  • Book of Hours
  • Germany
  • Christian
  • Miniature
Title
  • Book of Hours
Author
  • Bernard of Clairvaux, (French saint, abbot, writer, 1090-1153)
  • Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179
Physical Description
  • [Part 1, Front endleaves]: Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: In situ. Support material: Parchment. Extent: 2. Foliation - Pagination: none. Page dimensions (in mm): 120 x 85. Written area (in mm): 120 x 85. Script: Romanesque Script: Gothic. Script type: Textualis. Layout: One column, ruled in light red for text and music, up to eight lines of text with music. Decoration: Rubrication. Musical notation: On [i]rv, square notation on five red-colored staff lines with B-flats indicated. On [ii]rv, neumatic notation on four or five red-colored staff lines. No custos.
  • [Part 2, Principal bookblock]: Physical type: Booklet. Support material: Parchment Support material: Paper (material). Extent: 145. Collation: Q1 (6), Q2-5 (8), Q6 (10), Q7 (8), Q8 (8: -7, -8), Q9-14 (8), Q15 (6), Q16-17 (10), Q18 (10: -10). Foliation - Pagination: none. Catchwords: None. Signatures: None. Page dimensions (in mm): 120 x 85. Written area (in mm): 83 x 60. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata Script type: Cursiva. Layout: One column, ruled in drypoint for sixteen lines. Fifteenth century addition (quire 8): one column, unruled, with twelve to twenty lines. Decoration: The openings of the Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead have near full-page historiated initials, depicting the Virgin and St. Agnes, respectively. Three-line and two-line alternating blue and red pen-flourished initials. One-line red initials. Rubrication.
  • [Part 3, Back endleaf]: Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: In situ. Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Foliation - Pagination: none. Page dimensions (in mm): 120 x 85. Script: Gothic. Script type: Textualis. Decoration: Cadelle capitals.
  • [Part 4, Intruded quire]: Physical type: Booklet. Support material: Parchment. Extent: 8. Collation: Q19 (8). Foliation - Pagination: none. Page dimensions (in mm): 120 x 85. Written area (in mm): 95-100 x 65. Script: Gothic. Script type: Cursiva. Layout: One column, unruled, eighteen to twenty lines. Decoration: One-line penwork initials extending into the margin.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • Breviarium sec. ord. S. Francisi (Institutional item title)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • luc_017_001
Date Created
  • 13th century
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections. Chicago, IL.
Provenance
  • From the library of St. Ignatius College (Chicago, IL). A dealer's description, in French, is pasted into the inside front cover. This book is recorded in de Ricci, Census, where the dealer's description is dated c. 1890.

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