Script and Textual Contents
Description and Contents
The manuscript is written in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textualis).
fols. Iv-VIr Prefatory cycle of six full-page miniatures
fols. VIIr-XIIv Calendar (for use at the Sainte-Chapelle)
fols. XIIIv-162r Psalter
fols. 162r-177v Canticles, Te deum, Quicumque vult
fols. 177v-226v Hours of the Virgin (use of Paris, ends imperfectly), with suffrages to saints inserted at Lauds
fols. 227r-233r Penitential Psalms (begin imperfectly)
fols. 233r-240v Litany with collects
fols. 240v-241r Prayer Suscipere digneris domine
fols. 241r-242r Prayer O intemerata (ends imperfectly)
fols. 242r-271r Office of the Dead (use of Paris, begins imperfectly)
fols. 271r-284v Collects, sermons and lessons for the Nativity of the Virgin, Annunciation, Purification and Assumption
fols. 284v-289r Song of Songs 1-5 (read on Saturdays)
fols. 289r-291r Antiphons for the Psalms recited at Vespers on double feasts, for the Magnificat and the Benedictus in the Hours of the Virgin on Saturdays and during the period from Advent to the Purification
fols. 292r-296r End of an Office of the Holy Spirit and Mass of the Holy Spirit (14th-century addition)
Ornamentation of the Hours of the Virgin, Matins
This type of gold and black initials and line fillers on blue and pink grounds characterise the work of the most skilled assistant (Hand 4). This is the only quire (17) with red and blue pen-flourished ornamentation added in the upper and lower borders. This is the work of another assistant, who was also responsible for the pen-flourished verse initials and ‘justification’ on the right side of the text, which appear in this and other quires. Quire 17 contains the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin and the additional ornamentation signals the importance of this text.