Bod-Inc: H-173
Horae ad usum Romanum (Rome; adapted to the proper of Langres) [French and Latin].
Analysis of Content
a1r [Prayer.] Incipit: ‘Iesus soit en ma teste et mon entendement'; 5 lines of verse. Soleil 239, Sonet and Sinclair 991.
a1r [Prayer.] Incipit: ‘Qui du tout son cueur met en dieu'; 4 lines of verse. Soleil 239.
a1r [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘Vrais crestiens en priant pour votre ame'; 7 lines of verse.
a1r [The name of the printer.]
a1v ‘Almanach pour xx ans' [1489-1508].
a2r ‘Sequitur residuum dicti almanach.’
a2v [Anatomical man.] Incipit: ‘Quant la lune est en aries leo et sagitarius il fait bon saigner au colerique. Feu . . .’ Soleil 28. Some of the text is typeset, some is part of the woodcut.
a3r [Calendarium.] Roman calendar, adapted to the Proper of Langres: 4 Jan. ‘Gregorii', 17 Jan. ‘sanctorum geminorum', 19 Jan. ‘translatio Desiderii', 30 July ‘festum reliquiarum [ecclesiae Lingonensis]', 17 Aug. ‘Mammetis', 26 Aug. ‘Dedicatio [ecclesiae beati Mammetis]', 2 Sept. ‘octaua dedicationis', 10 Oct. ‘Translatio Mammetis', 11 Oct. ‘Vinardi', 6 Nov. ‘translatio Gregorii.’
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.
b1r [Evangelia.] Io 1, 1-14; Lc 1, 26-38; Mt 2, 1-12; Mc 16, 14-20.
b4r ‘Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Iohannem.’ Io 18,1-19,42.
c2v ‘Seruitium horarum beatissime virginis Marie secundum vsum Romanum incipit feliciter.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
d8v ‘Ad matutinas de sancta cruce.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
e1v ‘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.
f8v [Mutationes in Officio BVM.] ‘In aduentu domini officium beate Marie dicitur modo predicto exceptis . . .’
g5r ‘Incipiunt septem psalmi penitentiales.’ Ps 6; 31; 37; 50; 101; 129; 142.
h2v ‘Letania.’ ‘Germane' among the confessors; ‘Barbara', ‘Margareta', ‘Elizabeth' among the virgins.
h6r ‘Ad vesperas mortuorum.’ Incipit: ‘Antiphona. Placebo domino . . .’
k4v ‘Sequuntur suffragia plurimorum sanctorum. Et primo.’ ‘De sanctissima trinitate.’ Incipit: ‘Te inuocamus te adoramus te laudamus . . .’
k5v ‘Oratio ad deum patrem.’ Incipit: ‘[Antiphona.] Pater de celis deus miserere nobis. [Oratio.] [D]omine sancte pater omnipotens eterne deus qui coequalem consubstantialem . . .’ See Leroquais, Livres d'heures, I 100.
k6r ‘Oratio ad filium.’ Incipit: ‘[Antiphona.] Fili redemptor mundi deus miserere nobis. [Oratio.] [D]omine Iesu Christe fili dei viui qui es verus et omnipotens deus . . .’ See Leroquais, Livres d'heures, I 100.
k6r ‘Oratio ad spiritum sanctum.’ Incipit: ‘[Antiphona.] Spiritus sancte deus miserere nobis. [Oratio.] [D]omine spiritus sancte deus qui coequalis consubstantialis . . .’ See Leroquais, Livres d'heures, I 100.
k6v ‘De sancta facie.’ Incipit: ‘[S]alue sancta facies nostri redemptoris . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 349 no. xli.
k7r ‘Oratio ad beatissimam virginem Mariam.’ Incipit: ‘[O]bsecro te . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 346 no. xxxviii.
l1r [Suffragia II.] With the following variations compared with H‑151: 1-3; [4; 5; 6;] 7-10; 12; 13; [14; 16-19;] 20; 21; ‘Genouefa.’
m1r [Devotae orationes.] Incipit: ‘Sensuiuent plusieurs deuotes louenges peticions . . .’ With the following variations compared with H‑151: 1-7; 9; 10.
m3r Gregorius(?): [Orationes sancti Gregorii.] ‘Saint Gregoire a donne xiiii. mille ans de pardon . . .’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II, 346 no. xxxvii.
m4r ‘Oratio deuotissima ad beatissimam virginem Mariam . . .’ Incipit: ‘[O] intemerata . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 336 no. xxi.
m5r [Litaniae lauretanae.] ‘Oraison a dire chacun samedi.’ Incipit: ‘[M]issus est Gabriel angelus . . .’ Meersseman, Akathistos, II 244-7.
m8r ‘De sancto rocho.’ Incipit: ‘Aue roche sanctissime nobili natus sanguine . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris]: Étienne Jehannot, [1499?]. 8°.
Collation
Collation: a–m8.
Remarks: The first leaf of each gathering, except a, has the catch letters ‘Ro' for Rome.
Types: Type: 83 B.
Leaves: 96 leaves.
Line number: 23 lines (b1v).
Type area: Type area: 96 × 57 mm, with borders 120 × 80 mm (b1v).
Illustrations: Woodcuts: anatomical man (100 × 80 mm), 15 large (75 × 55 mm), 35(?) small (37 × 24 mm). Each text page is within borders decorated with grotesques and floral and figurative designs.
Remarks: a1r: [within borders] ‘Ieſus ſoit en ma teſte et mō entēdemēt | . . .' (l. 11): ‘Vrais creſtiēs en priant pour vrē ame | Affin quelle ſoit de grant peine deliure | Les oraiſons et heures noſtre dame | Dictes / qui ſont eſcriptes en ce liure | . . .' (l. 18): ‘M. E. Iehannot'. a1v: ‘¶ Almanach pour xx ans'. a2r: ‘Sequitur reſiduum dicti almanach'. b1r: [cut, within borders] | ‘Initium ſancti euangelii ſecunduƺ Iohannem. Gloria tibi domine.' b4r: ‘Paſſio domini noſtri ieſu chriſti | ſecundum iohannem.' m1r: ‘Senſuiuēt pluſieurs deuotes louē= | ges peticiōs oraiſons et requeſtes . . .' m8v: ‘¶ Seruitium horaruƺ beate marie vir | ginis Pariſius impreſſum. | Explicit.’
References
ISTC: ih00401300
Proctor: Pr 8344;
Others: Bohatta, Horae, 441; Sheppard 6506-7.
LCN: 14464877
Copies
Copy number: H-173(1)
Wanting leaves l2, 6, 7. In the above description of the contents, the presumed texts and woodcuts of the missing leaves are included in square brackets.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns and gold-tooled spine with the title ‘Horae Parisiensis'.
Size: 148 × 100 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 139 × 91 mm.
Notes in French in a contemporary hand on a1v, a2r: ‘Ce present libure a este vacheue de limpression en lan iiiixx ix [i.e. 1499] et depuis jusque a present dernier du mois de juny mil[ ] . . . de mou[ ] a mil cinq . . . ans iiii mois v[ ] Ieanmarc natifs de Parisius'. On the front endleaf a sixteenth/seventeenth-century woodcut cut out and mounted, the head of Christ with the legend: ‘Speciosus forma præ filiis hominum psal. 44'. On the rear pastedown, a list of woodcuts in Douce's hand.
A few large woodcuts and borders painted. Two- to four-line initials are supplied in blue with white pen-work decoration, on a red ground with gold pen-work decoration. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce BB 49.
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