Leighton hours, use of LeMans, 1400 - 1499
Abstract
This is a fifteenth-century French book of hours, with lacunae throughout. There are three genealogical entries throughout the calendar in French in different hands below the text, suggesting previous ownership by the de Lys family and the Bonefant family.
Table of contents: Calendar of Bayeaux, in French, in red and black, rather sparse; Hours of the Virgin, use of LeMans; Penitential Psalms beginning imperfectly with the second Psalm; Litany of the Saints; Gospel of John beginning imperfectly; Office of the Dead begins imperfectly in Vespers;
Dates
- Creation: 1400 - 1499
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Custodial History
Written in France in the fifteenth century. Provenance uncertain. Three genealogical entries in calendar in different hands below the text. On f. 4r: "le neuviesme avril mil sept cent un jay espouse ma femme Marie Rose de Lys fille et unique heriteuse de messire sebastien de Lys comte de Beause et de dame jeane de poysment contrat de mariage est raporte de jaunier notaire Royal a Biliers Nicolas Francois durand de Villegagner." In another hand on f. 5r: "Le 21 de may mil six cents septante et deux fut neé ma fille marie rose et fut nommée par mesire Jan du Boisgelin president a mortier et dame marie Despinose dame de fouesnel son aieuse maternelle."; on f. 6r in the same hand: "Le sixiesme de juin mil six cents septante et quatre fut né mon fils Jan Baptiste Auguste de Lys, fut nomme par Mesire Jan Babtiste de poise et par Dame Marguerite de poyse dame de [ ] son oncle et sa tante a St. Sauveur de Rénnes"; and on f. 10r in that hand: "le 14me octobre mil six cents septante j'espouse ma femme janne de poys fille aisnee de mesire Regnaud de pois et de marie despinose mon contrat de mariage est raporte de Bretin notaire royal a Rennes." On f. 85v: "Damoiselle Catherine fille de noble homme Michel Bonenfant sr. de la Brete et de Damoiselle roberde de Taillie son espouse fut née le xxviiie jour de Juillet lan M.V.cc xxviii. Laquelle espousa Noble homme Jean de Vauguelin Sr. d'hommay le penultime jour de Novembre M.V.cc Liii."
Other related names
- de Lys family, former owners
- Bonefant family, former owners
- Leighton, Gertrude, donor
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given to Bryn Mawr College in 1984 by Gertrude Leighton.
Physical Description
Stubs where pages with miniatures and decorations excised.
Parchment support. ff. i (paper) + 85 + ii (paper)
Seventeenth-century leather, blind-tooled front and back: gold-tooled fleur-de-lis in the four corners and a gold-tooled medallion in center.
i+85+ii; 186 x 128 mm bound to 195 x 141 mm
Seventeen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines and double upper and single lower horizontal bounding lines, all full across; remains of prickings on some leaves; written area: 110 x 75 mm
Gothic - textualis script
Text badly mutilated. Although traces of transferred ink from missing leaves can be discerned on the verso of several of the pages (i.e. ff. 19, 26, 63) suggesting a once-elaborate program of decoration, the remaining illuminations consist solely of the typical 2- and 1-line gold initials on a black-framed magenta and blue ground with white penline decoration; line fillers and, in the calendar, KL monograms in same style. Rubrication throughout in red.
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; foliation before missing folios in pencil in lower left margin, recto
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