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  • Language: Latin, Language: French, Middle, approx. 1400-1600. Supplied title: Prayers in Latin and French (Contemporary front flyleaf). Incipit: Quant on y est hors. Explicit: O benigna que sola inviolata permasisti. Folio range: iii r-v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Calendar. Folio range: 1r-12v ** Language: Latin. Scribal title: Initium sancti euanglii secundum iohannem Gloria tibi domine. Incipit: In principio erat uerbum . et uerbum erat apud deum . et deus erat uerbum. Explicit: deleantur nostra delicta . Amen. Folio range: 13r-14v ** Language: Latin. Supplied title: Prayer to the Virgin. Scribal title: Item ad beatam virginem mariam oratio deuota. Incipit: Saluto te beatissima uirgo. Explicit: apud te intercessionibus adiuvemur . per eundem christum dominum nostrum . amen. Folio range: 14v-16v ** Language: Latin. Supplied title: Additional Prayers to the Virgin. Scribal title: Item ad beatam virginem mariam. Incipit: Ave cuius conceptio. Explicit: ora pro nobis deum . alleluya. Folio range: 16v-18v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Hours of the Virgin. Incipit: // plena dominus tecum . Aue maria . etcetera . Venite exultemus domino. Explicit: Quia viderunt oculi mei . salutare tuum . //. Folio range: 19r-69v ** Language: Latin, Language: French. Supplied title: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, followed by prayer (Anima Christi). Incipit: // nos uelit iuuare . Gressus nostros regere. Explicit: cum angelis tuis laudere te valeam per . christum dominum. Folio range: 70r-v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Penitential Psalms. Incipit: Laboravi in gemitu meo lavabo per singulas noctes lectum meum. Explicit: neque vindictam sumas de peccatis nostris. Folio range: 71r-75v ** Language: Latin. Supplied title: Litany, followed by prayers. Scribal title: Letania. Incipit: Kyri eleyson . Christe eleyson. Explicit: tua valeam subuentione consequi . per christum dominum nostrum . amen. Folio range: 75v-91v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Office of the Dead. Incipit: // Conuertere anima mea in requiem tuam. Explicit: Oremus . Inclina domine aurem tuam ad preces nostras. Folio range: 92r-136v ** Language: Latin. Supplied title: Prayers in Latin and French. Scribal title: Sequitur prosa de resurrectione christi. Incipit: Victime pascalis laudes immolant christiani. Explicit: Vraie estelle de mer marie . Ton nom soit loey hault et bas . //. Folio range: 137r-151v
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Time Period
  • Third quarter of the 15th century
Place of Origin
  • Northern France or Flanders
Description
  • Book of Hours (Use of Bayeux) produced during the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Includes prayers in French (fols. 145v-151v).
Call Number
  • MS 7
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
  • cow_004_001
Keywords
  • Rinceau
  • Flanders
  • Book of Hours
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Border
  • Illumination
  • Missing leaves
  • Devotion
  • Christian
  • France
Title
  • Book of Hours
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Codex. Support material: Parchment. Extent: ii + 1 + 151 + ii. Collation: Collation uncertain due to tight binding and use of glue by modern binder, multiple leaves with decorated borders removed. Foliation - Pagination: Modern foliation in pencil in the upper right hand corner of recto. Foliation is off by two, as it does not include opening two folios in its count. Catchwords: Fol. 119v includes partial catchword, most trimmed away. Bound dimensions (in mm): 165 x 130 x 50. Page dimensions (in mm): 157 x 118. Written area (in mm): 86 x 60. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column, ruled in light red ink for twelve lines. Decoration: Three-quarters illuminated rinceaux border (fol. 37r), with red, blue, and green foliation and floral pattern. Three-line illuminated initial with blue, red, and white (fol. 37r). Offsets (61v, 64r, 66r, 70r) suggest that additional illuminated borders were removed sometime before its most recent binding. Two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue. Alternating red and blue one-line initials. Bar line-fillers in red and blue with white and gold accents. Capitals heightened with yellow wash. Rubrication. Binding: Modern blind-tooled calf over boards, edges gilt and gauffered. Embossed stamp of modern binder on first front flylead, reading: W. Jamouneau Bookbinder & Stationer, 5 Mill Street, Guernsey.
Language
  • French, Middle, approx. 1400-1600
  • French
  • Latin
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • cow_004_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • College of Wooster Libraries Special Collections. College of Wooster. Wooster, OH.
Provenance
  • Donated to the College of Wooster by Dr. Amy Vandersall (Class of 1955, The College of Wooster), Alumni Weekend, 2010.

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