tih00341800

Text-inc Id:

tih00341800

Bod-inc Id:

H-152

Headings:

Horae ad usum Cameracensem (Cambrai) [French and Latin]

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v ‘Almanach pour .xxiiii. An.' [1497-1520].
3. a2r [Anatomical man.] Incipit: ‘Quant la lune est en aries leo et sagittarius il fait bon saigner au colerique. Feu . . .’ Soleil 28.
4. a2v [Calendarium.]
5. a2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘En iau(!) uier que les roys venussont | Glau me dit fremin mor font'; 4 rhymed verses for each month of the calendar. Soleil 155-7.
6. b1r [Evangelia.] Io 1, 1-14; Lc 1, 26-38; Mt 2, 1-12; Mc 16, 14-20.
7. b4v ‘Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi. Secundum Iohannem.’ Io 18,1-19,42.
8. c2v [Horae BVM.] Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
9. g2v ‘Sequuntur septem psalmi penitentiales.’ Ps 6; 31; 37; 50; 101; 129; 142.
10. h1r [Litaniae sanctorum.] ‘Nichasi cum sociis', ‘Quintine', ‘Lamberte' among the martyrs; ‘Remigi', ‘Hilari', ‘Egidi', ‘Vedaste', ‘Gaugerice', ‘Auberte', ‘Vindiciane', ‘Amande', ‘Amate', ‘Humberte' among the confessors; ‘Columba', ‘Brigida', ‘Maxellenis', ‘Gertrudis', ‘Vualdetrudis' among the virgins.
11. h7r ‘Sequuntur vigilie mortuorum.’ Incipit: ‘Ad vesperas. Antiphona. Placebo. Psalmus. [D]ilexi quoniam . . .’
12. m4v ‘Ad matutinas de cruce.’ Incipit: ‘[Antiphona.] [D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
13. m6v ‘Ad matutinas de sancto spiritu.’ Incipit: ‘[Antiphona.] [D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
14. m8v [Oratio ad BVM.] Incipit: ‘Obsecro te . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 346 no. xxxviii.
15. n2r ‘O intemerata . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 336 no. xxi.
16. n3v ‘Deuota contemplatio beate Marie virginis iuxta crucem . . .’ Incipit: ‘[S]tabat mater dolorosa . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 19416.
17. n4v ‘De sanctissima trinitate.’ Incipit: ‘Sancta trinitas vnus deus. Miserere nobis. Antiphona. Te inuocamus, te adoramus te laudamus . . .’
18. n6v ‘De sancta facie.’ Incipit: ‘[S]alue sancta facies nostri redemptoris . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 349 no. xli.
19. n7v [Suffragia.] With the following variations compared with H‑151: 1-5; 7; 8; ‘Gaugerico'; ‘Autberto'; 12; 10; 14; ‘Rocho'; 16; ‘Elizabeth'; 17-21.
20. o6v [Devotae orationes.] Incipit: ‘Sensuiuent plusieurs deuotes louenges, petitions . . .’ Compared with H‑151: 1-10; 12; 13; 19-22.
21. p2r Gregorius(?): [Orationes sancti Gregorii.] ‘Monseigneur saint Gregoire a donne quatorze mille ans de vray pardon . . .’ Incipit: ‘Domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II 346 no. xxxvii.
22. p3v ‘Les sept vers saint Bernard.’ Incipit: ‘[O] bone Iesu. Illumina oculos meos . . .’ Ps 12,4s; 24,4; 30,6; 38,5; 115,16s; 141,5s; 4,7; 85,17.
23. p4r [Litaniae lauretanae.] ‘Oratio deuotissima dicenda die sabbati ad honorem dei genitricis et virginis Marie.’ Incipit: ‘[M]issus est Gabriel angelus . . .’ Meersseman, Akathistos, II 244-7.
24. p8v [Colophon.]

Imprint:

Paris: [Georg Wolf and] Thielman Kerver for Gilles Remacle, 15 Mar. 1500/1. 8°.

Collation:

a–p⁸. 120 leaves. 22 lines (b1r). Type area: 105 × 60 mm, with borders 132 × 91 mm (b1r). Woodcuts: Anatomical man (92 × 71 mm), 15 large (103 × 73 mm), 29 small (32 × 21 mm). Each text page is within a combination of historiated borders and decorative elements such as grotesques, hunting scenes, and floral and figurative designs.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00341800 Pr 8397; Bohatta, Horae, 66; Polain 1921; Sheppard 6545. LCN: 14461811

Copies:

1. H-152(1) Copy Wanting leaf a8 containing the Calendar of December. Binding: Eighteenth-century English or French gold-tooled diced russia, with pastedowns of decorated paper. Turquoise-edged leaves and silk bookmark. Size: 176 × 108 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 168 × 102 mm. On the rear pastedown is a list of woodcuts in Douce's hand. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Johannes Jucundus(?) (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘Ex libris Joan: Jucun: [ ] ij d.' Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 27.