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)
Hours of the Virgin, Matins
This is the last page to contain the exuberant red and blue pen-flourished ornamentation in the upper and lower borders found only in quire 17. Being the last page of quire 17, it also preserves a catchword – the only one still extant in the manuscript. The words written in black ink at the bottom edge of the page – p[o]p[u]lo dei que – are the first words of the next page which starts quire 18.