Beinecke MS 16 (olim Z109.175)                                      Flanders, s. XV^^2
Hours, use of Rome

     1. f. 1r-12v    Calendar, rather empty, in French; among the saints,
     Juliana (16 Feb.), Honorina (27 Feb.), Leodegar (27 March, sic),
     Magloire (9 April, sic), Germanus of Alexandria (29 April), Quiriacus
     (4 May), Germanus of Paris (28 May), Medard (8 June), Gertrude (20
     June, sic), Eligius (25 June, in red), Germanus of Auxerre (31 July),
     Audomar (16 August, sic), Aegidius (1 Sept., in red), Donatianus of
     Algiers (6 Sept.), Lambert (17 Sept.), Maclovius (14 Nov., sic),
     Eligius (1 Dec., in red).

     2. ff. 13r-16v    Deuote oroison a nostre dame. O intemerata...
     [masculine forms; Wilmart 488-90].

     3. ff. 17r-22v    A la vierge marie oroison. Obsecro te...[masculine
     forms; Leroquais, LH 2.346-47].

     4. ff 22v-25r    Oroison a nostre dame. Stabat mater dolorosa...[RH
     19416].

     5. ff. 25r-26v     Five Joys of the Virgin [HE 63-64].

     6. ff. 27r-106v    Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome.

     7. ff. 107r-147v    Offices, in short form, for each day of the week
     beginning with Sunday: Trinity, Dead, Holy Spirit, All Saints,
     Eucharist, Cross, Virgin.

     8. ff. 147v-154v    Mass of the Virgin.

     9. ff. 155r-183r    Pentinential Psalms and Litany; among the 14
     confessors, Romanus (2) and Albinus (6); among the 19 virgins,
     Genevieve (11 and 16), Juliana (12), Gertrude (15), Ursula (18).

     10. ff. 183r-194v    Suffrages (headings in French) to Peter and Paul,
     the Cross, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul
     (different text than above), James, Nicolas, Lawrence, Anthony abbot,
     Sebastian, Barbara, Catharine, Margaret, and Apollonia.

     11. ff. 195r-237v    Office of the Dead, use of Rome.

     12. ff. 238r-241v    Octo versus sancti bernardi. Omnipotens splendor
     eterne lucis per signum sancte crucis. Illumina oculos meos...et in tua
     misericordia pia et in gracia tua semper gaudere. Amen. [RH 27912]

          Parchment, ff. 241 + ii (paper), 133 x 99 (82 x 55) mm. Calendar
     written in 17 long lines per page, text in twelve, ruled in pale purple
     ink; single bounding lines at sides and bottom, double at top of
     written space, all full across; some prickings at top and bottom of
     leaves.
          I^^12, II^^8, III^^6, IV-XXIX^^8, XXX^^6 (+ 1 leaf added, f. 238). 
	Catchwords along lower edge, near gutter.
          Written in formal batarde script; ff. 238r-241v in a different
     hand than the preceding folios, but probably almost contemporary.
          Thirteen undistinguished historiated initials (6-, 4-, and 3-
     line), ca. 1460-70, blue or pink with white highlights on brown grounds
     with gold highlights, enclosing, on f. 44v (Lauds) the Visitation [the
     initial for Matins, f. 27r, contains a butterfly, inserted by the same
     artist who did the borders]; f. 62v (Prime) the Nativity; f. 69v
     (Terce) the Annunciation to the Shepherds; f. 76v (Sext) the Adoration
     of the Magi; f. 82v (None) the Presentation in the Temple; f. 89r
     (Vespers) the Massacre of the Innocents; f. 100v (Compline) the Flight
     into Egypt; f. 112v (Hours of the Dead, for Monday) Angels carrying
     souls to heaven; f. 118v (Hours of the Holy Spirit, for Tuesday)
     Pentecost; f. 123r (Hours of All Saints, for Wednesday) Saints; f. 131v
     (Hours of the Sacrament, for Thursday) Adoration of the Host; f. 136v
     (Hours of the Cross, for Friday) the Crucifixion; f. 142v (Hours of the
     Virgin, for Saturday) Pieta. The subjects of the historiated initials
     as well as the collation indicate that no miniatures were originally
     planned.
          Six other initials (ff. 13r, 17r, 27r, 107r, 155r, and 195r)
     enclose carefully studied flowers. Scatter and compartmentalized
     borders of average quality (ff. 13r, 62v, 76v, 82v, 89r, 100v, 107r,
     112v, 118v, 131v, 142r, 155r, and 185r) added later, ca. 1480-1500, for
     the most part to pages with historiated or flower initials, similar to
     borders in manuscripts of the "Ghent Associates"; the majority with
     acanthus branches, flowers, and birds, or flowers alone scattered on
     backgrounds of pink, bright blue, slate blue, gold and/or black, or
     flowers set within a lattice of twigs, the diamonds so formed
     alternately pink and blue (f. 123r) or green, pink and blue (f. 238r).
     (Cf. the "Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian of Austria," Berlin,
     Kupferstichkabinett, MS. 78. B. 12, ca. 1475.) Three borders (ff. 27v,
     69v, and 136v) with thistles, brown and blue or brown and green,
     touched with gold, arranged in a wallpaper-like pattern over grounds
     of slate-blue or red cross-hatched with lines in a darker shade of the
     same color. (Cf., for a similar type of border, Madrid, Bib. Nac. Vit.
     25-5, ca. 1477-80, and Berlin Kupferstichkabinett MS. 78. B. 13, ca.
     1480; we thank A. H. van Buren for bringing these comparisons to our
	attention.) In the border on f. 107r, a grotesque with the torso of a
	man and the hind legs of a large cat; on f. 185r the same, holding a
	bow. 2-line initials in gold on pink and blue with white highlights,
	except on ff. 238r-241v, gold on blue and brown with white highlights.
	1-line initials in blue with red penwork, or gold with black penwork, or
	black with a red stroke; a few spaces for such initials have not been
	filled. In the text, headings and marks for antiphons in red; in the
	calendar, headings for months, dates, and important feasts also in red.
	Line-fillers: two oblique lines, blue or gold, with dots attached.
          Binding: s. xviii. Brown calf. Paste-decorated edges. Rebacked.
     Spine stamped with gold leaves and the words "GETEY BOEK".

          Written in Flanders, ca. 1460-70, as indicated by the style of the
     initials and script. Borders added later, in Flanders, ca. 1480-1500.
     Owned ca. 1840 by Henrietta Flirtmann [?]; signature and date on f. 1r.
     Baggett Collection. Sale by Anderson (New York, 5 June 1901, no. 133)
     to N. T. Bacon. Given in 1926 by Leonard Bacon and Susan Bacon Keith in
     memory of their father, Nathaniel Terry Bacon.

     Bibliography: De Ricci v. 1, p. 165, no. 16.

Barbara A. Shailor