Beinecke MS 19 (olim Z109.250)                                       France, s. XIV^^2
Hours (fragment)

          ff. 1r-19v    Penitential Psalms, text begins imperfectly: 6. 6-11
     (Quoniam non est in morte...), 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, 142. Folio 19v
     ends with the rubric: Ci apries commencent les xv saumes.

          Parchment, ff. i (contemporary parchment) + 19, 152 x 113 (73 x
     53) mm. Written in 11 long lines; single vertical bounding lines,
     double horizontal bounding lines, full across. Ruled in ink; prickings
     in upper and lower margins.
          I^^6 (-1), II^^4 (missing one folio; structure uncertain), III^^2,
     IV^^10.
          Written by a single scribe in liturgical gothic script.
          Carefully executed initials, 3-line, on blue or pink rectangles
     outlined in black, mark the beginning of each psalm; partial cusped
     borders, also in blue and pink, attached to each. Initials infilled
     with intertwining vines, often on gold ground, sometimes with small
     animals; modest use of gold dots inside rectangular grounds and
     borders. 1-line initials of blue with red penwork with blue dots and of
     gold with blue penwork and red dots. Line-fillers in combinations of
     red, blue and gold (various linear and flower designs).
          Binding: s. xix. Bound in a piece of blind-tooled brown calf, once
     part of a 17th-18th century binding. Front pastedown and flyleaf from a
     Bible concordance, version 3 (France, s. XIII/XIV; see R. H. and M. L.
     Rouse, "The Verbal Concordance to the Scriptures," Archivum Fratrum
     Praedicatorum 44 [1974] pp. 5-30). Back pastedown from 15th-century
     antiphonal, with musical notation, containing a portion of the office
     for Nicolas (6 Dec.).

          Written in France at the end of the 14th century, probably as part
     of a Book of Hours. Signature and date at the top of f. 10r in faded
     ink: "Godefroid 1705." 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. 19.

Barbara A. Shailor