Beinecke MS 107                                                       France, s. XV^^2
Hours, use of Rouen

     1. ff. 1r-2v    Prayers added by a later hand, some with headings in
     French or Latin. Ihesus soit en ma teste et mon entendement. Ihesus
     soit en mes yeux...; Quant tu [1 or 2 words rubbed] deuant le crucifix.
     Salua nos christe saluator per virtutem sancte crucis...; Oratio ad
     patrem. Pater de celis deus miserere nobis. Oremus. [D]omine sancte
     pater omnipotens eterne deus qui coequalem...; Oratio ad filium. Filij
     Redemptor mundi deus miserere nobis. Oremus. Oratio. Domine ihesu
     christe fili dei viui qui es verus...;Oratio ad spiritum sanctum.
     Spiritus sancte deus miserere nobis. Oremus. Oratio. Domine spiritus
     sancte deus qui coequalis...[HE 124-25]; Quant on veult receuoir le
     corps de nostre saluator ihesu crist. [D]omine non sum dignus vt intres
     sub tectum meum sed tu domine...; Quant on la Receu. Vera perceptio
     corporis et sanguine tui deus omnipotens non mihi veniat...; Stabat
     mater dolorosa...[RH 19416, followed by versicles and the prayer,
     Interueniat pro nobis]; [A]ue regina celorum, aue domina
     angelorum...[RH 2070]; [S]alue regina misericordie...[RH 18147];
     [I]nuiolata integra et casta...[RH 9094]; [R]egina celi letare...[RH
     17170].

     2. ff. 3r-8v    Calendar, in French, with a feast for every day of the
     year; lacking February, June, July, August, September, and November.
     Among the entries, Romanus (23 Oct., in gold).

     3. ff. 9r-13r    Sequences from the Gospels, that of John beginning
     defectively and followed by the prayers, Protector in te
     sperancium...[Perdrizet, 25] and Ecclesiam tuam quesumus.... f. 13v
     ruled, but blank

     4. ff. 14r-49r    Hours of the Virgin, use of Rouen; beginning lacking
     for Matins (after f. 13), for Lauds (after f. 22), for Prime (after f.
     33), for Terce (after f. 37), for Sext (after f. 39), for None (after
     f. 41), for Vespers (after f. 43), and for Compline (after f. 45).
     //Quoniam deus magnus dominus et rex magnus super omnes deos quoniam
     non repellet dominus plebus suam....

     5. f. 49r-v    Ruling of text space ignored; prayers added by the same
     scribe as art. 1: [G]loriosa passio domini nostri ihesu christi nos
     liberet a penis inferni...; [O] bone ihesu christe per tuam
     misercordiam esto michi ihesus...; O crux aue spes unica...; [D]omine
     Ihesu christe filii dei redemptor mundi deffende me de manu
     inimicorum....

     6. ff. 50r-61r    Penitential Psalms and Litany. //Turbatus est a
     furore oculus meus inueteraui.... The beginning of the Litany,
     including the list of martyrs, is lacking. Among the 12 [remaining?]
     confessors, Mellonus (4) and Romanus (5); among the 15 virgins,
     Honorina (9) and Austreberta (10). f. 61v ruled, but blank

     7. ff. 62r-63v    Short Hours of the Cross. //giri digneris viuis
     misericordiam et gratiam deffunctis requiem et veniam ecclesie tue....

     8. f. 64r-v    Short Hours of the Holy Spirit. //tus. Septiformis
     gracia carisma vocatus antiphona Veni sancte spiritus. Omnipotens
     sempiterne. Deus in adiutorium. Dextre dei tu digitus virtus
     spiritalis....

     9. ff. 65r-85v    Office of the Dead, use unidentified; imperfect at
     beginning and throughout. Responses to the lessons at Matins are 1.
     Credo quod, 2. Qui lazarum, 3. Domine quando, 4. Domine quando, 5. Ne
     recorderis, 6. Domine secundum, 7. Peccantem me, 8. Requiem eternam, 9.
     Libera me. ff. 86r-87v were ruled, f. 86r-v had a text in a later hand
     as did f. 87r-v; both have been so thoroughly erased that nothing is
     legible, even under ultraviolet light.

     10. ff. 88r-91v    Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French. //tout le
     monde vendroit en vous. Douce dame priez lui que il veulle
     venir...[Leroquais, LH 2.310-11].

     11. ff. 91v-94r    Seven Requests, in French [Leroquais, LH 2.309-10].

     12. ff. 94r-100v    Obsecro te...[masculine forms; Leroquais, LH 2.346-
     47] and O intemerata...[Wilmart 494-95].

     13. ff. 101r-103v    Ruling of text space ignored; prayers added by the
     same [?] later hand as arts. 1 and 5: [O] Domine iesu christe adoro te
     in cruce pendentem... [Leroquais, LH 2.346]; Domine ihesu christe qui
     hanc sacratissimam carnem...[Wilmart 378, n.]; Domine ihesu christe
     Rogo te amore illius gaudij...; Fremuit spiritu Iesus et turbauit se
     ipsum et dixit Iudeis vbi posuistis Lazarum...Oremus. Deus cuius
     vnigenitis assumpte humanitatis probabile argumentum In Resuscitacione
     lazari...; Avete omnes anime fideles quarum corpora...Oremus. [D]omine
     Iesu christe salus et liberacio...[Leroquais, LH 2.341]; Oratio ad
     beatam mariam, [A]ve domina sancta maria mater dei regina celi...;
     Oratio dicenda ante confessionem, [O ]mnipotens et misericors deus
     quoniam non mortem sed penitentiam desideras peccatorum...; De sancta
     susanna. Victima tu christi virgo susanna fuisti...[with versicle and
     prayer]. f. 104 blank, except for the holes and faint outlines (3) of
     pilgrim's badges once attached.

          Parchment, ff. 104 + iii (paper), 188 x 127 (101 x 66) mm. Written
     in 16 long lines per page, ruled in pale red ink; single vertical
     bounding lines, full across; prickings visible in outer margins.
          I^^14 (-4, 8, 9, 10, 11), II^^6, (-1, 6), III^^6, IV^^8, V^^6, VI^^8
     (-1, 6), VII^^8 (-1, 4, 7), VIII^^6 (-2), IX^^8 (-1), X^^6 (-2, 4), XI^^6
     (-1, 5, 6), XII^^8 (-1, 3), XIII^^6, XIV^^6, XV^^4, XVI^^6, XVII^^6,
     XVIII^^4. Remains of catchwords in pale brown ink in the lower right corner of
     the last folio, on verso.
          Written in liturgical gothic bookhand in two sizes, by a single
     scribe. Prayers (ff. 1r-2v, 49r-v, 101r-103r) added in an informal
     batarde script, apparently by a single person.
          The manuscript originally contained the full complement of
     miniatures; their removal (following ff. 8, 13, 22, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43,
     45, 49, 61, 64, and 87) is indicated by stubs, missing bifolios and
     breaks in the text. The remaining decoration consists of
     compartmentalized borders typical of late 15th-century Rouen
     manuscripts (cf., e.g., Paris, Arsenal 562, G. Ritter and J. Lafond,
     Manuscrits a Peintures de l'ecole de Rouen (Rouen, 1913) pls. 66, 67;
     and Waddesdon Manor MS 14, Delaisse, Marrow, and de Wit, Waddesdon
     Manor, figs. 8-10, 13). One full border (f. 3r) in red bounding lines
     with pink and blue acanthus leaves on a gold ground, alternating with
     flowers and strawberries on parchment ground, filled in with black and
     gold dots; three borders (ff. 4r, 6r, 7r) in outer margin only. 3/4
     band borders (with 5- and 4- line initials); single bands in outer
     margin (with 2-line initials); additional small bands occur when 2-line
     initial is on a recto. Borders are traced whenever they occur on recto
     and verso of same leaf; all with blue and gold acanthus leaves, flowers
     on parchment ground, filler as for full border. Many pages have no
     border. Initials, 5-, 4-, 2-, and 1-line, gold, on blue and red grounds
     with white highlights; 4-line initials, blue on a gold ground, filled
     with red and blue trilobe leaves in lattices; the 2-line initials
     occasionally with a narrow border in inner margin with flowers, black
     hair-spray, and gold dots (red bounding lines). Ribbon and quatrelobe
     line-fillers in gold, blue, and red, highlighted in white. Rubrics in
     orange-tinted red. Calendar has months, dates, and important feasts in
     gold; other feasts alternately in blue and red. Most spaces for
     initials within the added prayers have not been filled.
          Binding: s. xvii. Dark red goatskin, gold-tooled, with a smooth
     spine.

          Written in Northern France, probably in Rouen, in the second half
     of the 15th century; early provenance unknown. Belonged to Sir Charles
     Frederick, Surveyor General of Ordnance (bookplate designed by W. H.
     Toms, 1752). Presented to Yale in 1939 by Jonathan Godfrey.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 30, no. 107.
          L. Nemoy, "A Fifteenth-Century Beatae Virginis Mariae Horae,"
     Gazette 15 (1940) pp. 20-21.

     Barbara A. Shailor