Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
Notre Dame/Newberry MS. 6
Book of Hours, use of Thérouanne
Contents:
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Calendar
extent:ff. 1r-6v
decoration:Initials KL at the top of each column on each page in gold within a blue and red box.
note:The calendar features several early Northern French saints.
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Hours of the cross
extent:ff. 7r-9v
rubric:
heures de la crois
incipit:
DOmine labia mea aperies
explicit:
mortis agone Amen
decoration:On f. 7r half page illumination of Christ crucified flanked by Mary and John. Floral marginalia in red, blue, green, gold, and pink with two grotesque figures. On f. 7r a gray and white initial D set within a gold box decorated with a floral pattern. Gold initials (1-line for new verses, 2-line for new prayers) set within alternating red and blue boxes with alternating blue and red infill.
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Hours of the Holy Spirit
extent:ff. 10r-12v
rubric:
Heures du saint esperit
incipit:
DOmine labia mea aperies
explicit:
illumines inspiratione Amen
decoration:On f. 10r half page illumination of Mary, seated and reading, surrounded by the apostles in prayer as the Holy Spirit descends represented by a dove. Floral marginalia in red, blue, green, gold, and gray with two grotesque figures. On f. 10r a gray and white initial D set within a gold box decorated with a floral pattern. Gold initials (1-line for new verses, 2-line for new prayers) set within alternating red and blue boxes with alternating blue and red infill.
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Hours of the Blessed Virgin
extent:ff. 13r-49r
rubric:
Incipiunt hore beate marie
incipit:
DOmine labia mea aperies
explicit:
Benedicamus domino deo gracias
decoration:On f. 13r half page illumination of the Annunciation with Mary, kneeling and reading, with the angel to her left as the Holy Spirit, represented by a dove, descends. The landscape may be seen through two large gothic arches to her left. Floral marginalia in red, blue, green, gold, and pink with one grotesque figure. On f. 13r a gray and white initial D set within a gold box decorated with a floral pattern. Each new hour is marked by a floral border and 4-line initial blue withing a red box with a gold, red, and blue checkered infill. Gold initials (1-line for new verses, 2-line for new prayers) set within alternating red and blue boxes with alternating blue and red infill.
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Penitential psalms
extent:ff. 50r-59r
incipit:
DOmine ne in furore
explicit:
in secula seculorum Amen
decoration:On f. 50r half page illumination of Christ seated in judgement flanked by Mary and John. Four tombs below are opened revealing two women, a man, and a tonsured monk. Floral marginalia in red, blue, green, gold, and gray with two grotesque figures On f. 50r a gold initial D set within a gray and white box decorated with a floral pattern. Gold initials (1-line for new verses, 2-line for new psalms) set within alternating red and blue boxes with alternating blue and red infill.
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Litany and prayers
extent:ff. 59r-65r
rubric:
letania
incipit:
Kyrieleyson xpristeleyson Kyrieleyson
explicit:
dominum nostrum amen
decoration:Gold initials (1-line for new verses, 2-line for new prayers) set within alteranting red and blue boxes with alternating blue and red infill.
note:Saints in the litany include Nicasius, Maurice, Denis, Remigius, Germain, Amand, and Medard. Nine prayers follow the litany.
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Office of the dead
extent:ff. 66r-85v
rubric:
Vigilles des mortes
incipit:
Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus
explicit:
requiescant in pace Amen
decoration:On f. 66r half page illumination of Jesus raising Lazarus from a grave. With Jesus are an apostle, the Virgin Mary, and Martha and Mary of Bethania. Floral marginalia in red, blue, green, and gold. On f. 10r a gold initial D set within a gray and white box decorated with a floral pattern. Gold initials (1-line for new verses, 2-line for new psalms or antiphons) set within alteranting red and blue boxes with alternating blue and red infill.
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Creed of St. Athanasius
extent:ff. 86r-88v
rubric:
Sensieult la psalme de la foy
incipit:
Quicumque uult saluus esse ante omnia
explicit:
in ignem eternum ... Amen
decoration:2-line gold initial to start the text, 1-line gold initials set within alteranting red and blue boxes with alternating blue and red infill thereafter.
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Prayers
extent:ff. 89r-90v
incipit:
Stabat mater dolorosa
explicit:
dominum nostrum amen
Date of origin:ca. 1450.
Place of origin: Thérouanne, France
Support:
Parchment codex
Foliation:
Foliated in lead in a modern hand on the upper right hand corner of each leaf.
Dimensions:191 mm x 124mm (leaves), 111 mm x 72mm (ruled space)
Collation:
1-26 3-48 54 6-78 810 (-10) 98 104 11-128 136
Script:Written in a gothic textura. The second hand begins at f. 66r.
Binding:Bound in sixteenth century calf with gold stamped image of the Annunciation on both covers. Blind tooled double fillets around both covers. Front free endleaf is a leaf from the F-G section of the Concordantia Santi Jacobi.
Additions:The Stabat mater and Deus qui virginalem on ff. 89r-90v are in a clearly later hand. A later hand has also written a prayer in French on the back flyleaf.
Provenance:Ms ex libris on verso of third front flyleaf of Mademoiselle Jolent Denin of Wingles. The manuscript is jointly owned with the Newberry Library and shelved at the Newberry as MS. 185.
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