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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Autun, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, perhaps Autun, c.1480]
An attractive volume in fine condition in a well-preserved medieval blind-stamped binding.
128 x 90mm, 208 leaves, collation uncertain, with occasional catchwords, 15 lines, ruled space: 63 x 45mm, illuminated with one historiated initial depicting a personification of death, accompanied by a three-sided border, each hour of the Virgin with a four- or five-line foliate initial and panel border (apparently lacking two leaves after f.24, one after ff.85 and 152, and one or more at the end). Original binding sewn on four slit thongs laced into beech boards and covered with brown calf densely blind-stamped in rectangles formed of four main tools: a Florentine fleur-de-lys, a monkey(?), a bird, and a foliate scroll (rebacked).
Provenance: The calendar includes several Autun feasts, some highly graded in blue: Nazarus & Celsus (28 July, with octave), St Lazare (1 Sept., with ‘Hic fit de sancto Lazaro’ on 2 and 3 Sept.), the ‘revelatio’ of St Lazare (20 Oct., with octave), Proculus (4 Nov.), the ‘adventus reliquiarum’ of Nazarius and Celsus (6 Nov.), Amator (26 Nov.), etc., and the Dedication of the church of St Lazare (20 Dec.); the litany has Sts Lazare, Martial, Trophine, and Saturnine, between the Apostles and Martyrs.
The original cathedral of Autun was dedicated to Sts Nazarius and Celsus; when some relics of St Lazare were acquired in the 10th century, a new building was constructed adjacent to the old one, and rededicated to Lazare, later to become a major pilgrimage site
Contents: Calendar ff.1-12v; ‘Obsecro te’ f.13 and ‘O intemerata’ f.17v; Gospel extracts ff.21-23v; 24r–v blank; Hours of the Virgin, use of Autun, with matins starting imperfectly ff.25-85v; Seven Penitential Psalms, starting imperfectly, and Litany ff.86-105v; Office of the Dead ff.106-152v; seasonal variants for the hours ff.153-208, ending imperfectly.
An attractive volume in fine condition in a well-preserved medieval blind-stamped binding.
128 x 90mm, 208 leaves, collation uncertain, with occasional catchwords, 15 lines, ruled space: 63 x 45mm, illuminated with one historiated initial depicting a personification of death, accompanied by a three-sided border, each hour of the Virgin with a four- or five-line foliate initial and panel border (apparently lacking two leaves after f.24, one after ff.85 and 152, and one or more at the end). Original binding sewn on four slit thongs laced into beech boards and covered with brown calf densely blind-stamped in rectangles formed of four main tools: a Florentine fleur-de-lys, a monkey(?), a bird, and a foliate scroll (rebacked).
Provenance: The calendar includes several Autun feasts, some highly graded in blue: Nazarus & Celsus (28 July, with octave), St Lazare (1 Sept., with ‘Hic fit de sancto Lazaro’ on 2 and 3 Sept.), the ‘revelatio’ of St Lazare (20 Oct., with octave), Proculus (4 Nov.), the ‘adventus reliquiarum’ of Nazarius and Celsus (6 Nov.), Amator (26 Nov.), etc., and the Dedication of the church of St Lazare (20 Dec.); the litany has Sts Lazare, Martial, Trophine, and Saturnine, between the Apostles and Martyrs.
The original cathedral of Autun was dedicated to Sts Nazarius and Celsus; when some relics of St Lazare were acquired in the 10th century, a new building was constructed adjacent to the old one, and rededicated to Lazare, later to become a major pilgrimage site
Contents: Calendar ff.1-12v; ‘Obsecro te’ f.13 and ‘O intemerata’ f.17v; Gospel extracts ff.21-23v; 24r–v blank; Hours of the Virgin, use of Autun, with matins starting imperfectly ff.25-85v; Seven Penitential Psalms, starting imperfectly, and Litany ff.86-105v; Office of the Dead ff.106-152v; seasonal variants for the hours ff.153-208, ending imperfectly.
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