Bod-Inc: H-168
Horae ad usum Romanum (Rome) [French and Latin]
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page and imprint information stating that the work was begun for Vérard.]
a1v ‘Almanach pour xxi an.' [1488-1508].
a2r [Anatomical man.] Incipit: ‘Quant la lune est en aris leo et sagitarius il fait bon saigner au colerique. Feu . . .’ Soleil 28. Some of the text is typeset, some is part of the woodcut.
a2v [Benedictio.] Incipit: ‘[B]enedictio dei patris cum angelis suis sit super me. Amen. [B]enedictio Iesu Christi cum angelis . . .’ See Adolph Franz, Benediktionen, II 608.
a3r [Calendarium.] Parisian calendar, in French.
a3r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘En ian uier que les roys venus sont | Glau me dit fremin mor font'; 4 rhymed verses for each month of the calendar. Soleil 155-7.
a3r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘In iano claris calidisque cibis potiaris | Atque decens potus post fercula sit tibi notus'; 4 hexameters for each month of the calendar. See Walther, Proverbia, 11795.
b1r [Evangelia.] Io 1, 1-14; Lc 1, 26-38; Mt 2, 1-12; Mc 16, 14-20.
b3r ‘Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi. Secundum Johannem.’ Io 18,1-19,42.
b6r ‘Hore intemerate virginis Marie secundum vsum romane curie. Incipiunt feliciter.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
c6v ‘Ad matutinas de cruce.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
c7v ‘Ad matutinas de sancto spiritu.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’ “Mixed” Hours: Matins of the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit are inserted immediately after Matins and Lauds of the Hours of the BVM, etc.
e2v [Mutationes in Officio BVM.] ‘In aduentu domini officium beate Marie dicitur modo predicto . . .’
e5r ‘Septem psalmi penitentiales.’ Ps 6; 31; 37; 50; 101; 129; 142.
e8v ‘Letania.’ As H‑160.
f2v ‘Vigilie mortuorum.’ ‘Ad vesperas.’ Incipit: ‘Antiphona. Placebo . . .’
g3r ‘Suffragia plurimorum sanctorum . . .’ ‘De sanctissima trinitate . . . Antiphona.’ Incipit: ‘Te inuocamus, te adoramus, te laudamus . . .’
g4r ‘De facie domini.’ Incipit: ‘[S]alue sancta facie . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 349 no. xli.
g4v ‘Oratio deuotissima ad beatissimam virginem Mariam dei genitricem.’ Incipit: ‘[O]bsecro te . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 346 no. xxxviii.
g5v ‘Oratio deuotissima ad beatissimam virginem Mariam.’ Incipit: ‘[O] intemerata . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 336 no. xxi.
g6v ‘Deuota contemplatio beate Marie virginis iuxta crucem . . .’ Incipit: ‘[S]tabat mater dolorosa . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 19416.
g7r [Suffragia II.] As H‑151: 1-21.
h3v [Devotae orationes.] Incipit: ‘Sensuiuent plusieurs deuotes louenges, peticions . . .’ As H‑151: 1-7.
h4v Gregorius(?): ‘Les sept oraisons saint Gregoire.’ Incipit: ‘[O] Domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II, 346 no. xxxvii.
h5r [Devotae orationes II.] As H‑151: 8-22.
h6r ‘Oraison tres deuote a dieu le pere.’ Incipit: ‘[M]on benoist dieu, ie croy de cueur . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 330 no. xiii.
h6v ‘Autre oraison en francois.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ire dieu tout puissant, tout voyant . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II, 339 no. xxiv.
h6v [Litaniae lauretanae.] ‘Oratio deuotissima dicenda die sabbati ad honorem intemerate dei genitricis virginis Marie.’ Incipit: ‘[M]issus est Gabriel . . .’ Meersseman, Akathistos, II 244-7.
h8v ‘Officium de conceptione beate Marie virginis.’ Incipit: ‘Ad matutinas. [D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
i2r ‘L'office de nostre dame de pitie.’ ‘A matines. Inuitatoire.’ Incipit: ‘[V]ous vrais catholiques et deuots seruiteurs . . . Hymne. [D]ame saincte Marie vierge glorieuse . . .’ Sonet 339.
i4r ‘Memoire de la trinite.’ Incipit: ‘Antienne. [O] benoite et tressouerraine trinite pere et fils et sainct esperit . . . [S]ire dieu et pere tout puissant qui par la mort et passion . . .’ Sonet 1286, 1939.
i4v ‘De sancto Rocho antiphona.’ Incipit: ‘Aue Roche sanctissime nobili natus . . .’
i4v ‘Les sept pseaulmes en francois translatees au plus pres du latin.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine ne in furore tuo arguas me, etc. Sire en ta fureur ne me argue . . .’ Ps 6; 31; 37; 50; 101; 129; 142.
k4v ‘Oraison tres deuote a nostre seigneur.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ire dieu createur du ciel et de la terre, roy des roys . . .’ Soleil 227-9, Sonet 1927.
k5v Bernardinus(?): ‘Oratio sancti Bernardini confessoris ordinis minorum.’ Incipit: ‘[O] boni(!) Iesu. O dulcis Iesu. O Iesu fili Marie virginis plenus misericordia . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 345 no. xxxvi.
k6v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Étienne Jehannot], for Antoine Vérard, 10 Aug. 1498. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h8 i4 k6.
Remarks: The first leaf of each gathering has the catch letter ‘R' for Rome.
Leaves: 74 leaves.
Line number: 33 lines (b1v).
Type area: Type area: 134 × 82 mm, with borders 162 × 110 mm (b1v).
Illustrations: Woodcuts: anatomical man (99 × 80 mm), 16 large (111/122 × 75/78 mm), 32 small (32 × 26 mm). Each text page is within a combination of historiated borders and decorative elements such as grotesques and floral and figurative designs. Some of the woodcuts have typeset captions.
References
ISTC: ih00393900
Proctor: Pr 8364;
Others: Bohatta, Horae, 647; Macfarlane 219; Sheppard 6494.
LCN: 14464834
Copies
Copy number: H-168(1)
Bound with:
1. Heures à l'usage de Rome. Paris: Gillet Hardouyn, [1510].
Printed on parchment.
Binding: English (London, c.1800) red morocco; marbled pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves previously marbled, and red silk bookmark.
Size: 229 × 145 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 220 × 138 mm.
Three-line initials are supplied in blue, some with white or gold pen-work decoration, on a red ground. Other initials, paragraph marks, and line fillers are supplied in gold on a red or blue ground. Capitals touched with yellow wash. Ruling in red.
Sixteenth-century note on m2v of item 1: ‘Iesus Maria Ben̄s Je me [ ]'. On rear pastedown, a list of woodcuts in Douce's hand.
Provenance: Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall (1739-1799); armorial book-plate: see Howe, Book Plates, 5733. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 131(2).
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