29 - HOURS OF ANGERS. [Angers, second half of the 15th century].
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Estimate €8,000 - €10,000

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HOURS OF ANGERS. [Angers, second half of the 15th century]. Manuscript on parchment, comprising II + 172 + II ff. (115 x 85 mm), calendar layout: 65 x 45 mm, in 18 long lines; text area: 68 x 50 mm, in 18 long lines, in bastard script in black ink, headpieces on ff. 19v, 32v, 38v, 60v, 68v, 76v, 121v, 152v, ff. 23–25v blank. In-16, red morocco with overlaps, double blind-stamped border with gilt fleurons at the corners, plain decorated spine, modern box (Modern binding). Text ff. 1–6v: Prayers in Latin attributed to Jacques Serant, 16th century, ‘O benigne J. C.’ ff. 7–12v and 166–171v: Calendar in Latin, 12 March (undated) Maurice and his friends, Bishop of Angers, 13 September (undated). Maurille, Bishop of Angers, 22 September (undated). Maurice the Martyr, 12 November (undated). René, Bishop of Angers, 15 November (undated). Malo, Bishop of Brittany ff. 26–48v: Hours of the Virgin for the Angers rite, incomplete: beginning of Matins, Lauds (f. 32v), Terce (f. 39), Sext (f. 42v), None (f. 44), Vespers (f. 45), Compline (f. 47) ff. 53–59v: Penitential Psalms ff. 60–84v: Office of the Dead according to the Angers rite; Lauds are missing ff. 85–87v: The Ten Commandments: ‘Believe in God and love Him above all things’, the Creed in French. ff. 88–97v: Missus est Gabriel angelus (initial at the start), Obsecro te (initial at the start), Stabat mater, Salve regina, Sire Dieu, The Lord’s Prayer, the seven verses of St Bernard. ff. 98–104v: Prayers in Latin (initial at the start), Domine rex, Rex beatorum, In elevacione corporis et sanguinis Christi ff. 105–121v: Change of script, prayers in Latin, psalms, Sequitur litania: Canticum beate Marie virginis, te matrem Dei laudamus ff. 122–135v: Hours of the Holy Spirit and Hours of the Cross (initial at the beginning) ff. 136–141: Prayers to the Virgin ff. 141v–155: Prayers to the Cross, to St Michael, to St John the Baptist, to Saints Peter and Paul, to St Andrew, to St John the Evangelist, to St James, to St Bartholomew, to St Thomas, to Saints Simeon and Jude, St Barnabas, St Matthew, St Stephen, St Sebastian (144–145 missing), St Christopher, St Julian the Martyr, St George, St Eustace, St Adrian, St Denis, St Blaise, St Eutropius, St Martin, St Maurille, St Nicholas, St Julian, Bishop of Le Mans, St René, St Claude, St Armagile, venerated in Brittany, St Fiacre, St Anthony, St Malo, St Francis, St Mary Magdalene, St Anne, St Catherine, St Margaret, St Apolline, St Barbara, St Lucy, the 11,000 virgins, and all the saints. ff. 155v–165v: Sequitur litania, Domine Ihesu O dulcissime Ihesu, Gaude flore virginali, Avete omnes anime, other prayers, At the Elevation of the Body of Christ: Domine Ihesu qui hanc sacratissimam and other prayers. Decoration Initials of 1 to 2 lines: gold letters on a background alternating between blue and red. This book of hours for use in Angers was richly decorated. It has lost all its paintings. It must have been commissioned for a man named Sébastien (see the absence of a painting of Saint Sébastien in the suffrages) from the diocese of Angers who had a devotion to Brittany. In the 16th century, it belonged to a certain Jacques Serant.

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29 - HOURS OF ANGERS. [Angers, second half of the 15th century]. See original version (French)

29 - HOURS OF ANGERS. [Angers, second half of the 15th century].
See original version (French)