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Maker / Publisher:		BOOKS OF HOURS
Place & Date:		c.1480
Colored:		In attractive original colors.
Size:		170 x 120 mm / 6.7 x 4.7 inches
Condition:		In-8°, 108 pages. on parchment, complete, but some pages bound in the wrong order, 12 katerns irregularly bound. 19th-century calf, with blind stamped decorations, ribbed spine.

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Contents of the Book of Hours :
1. ff. 2-7 : Calendar. In red and brown ink. Justification 115 x 75 mm.
2. ff. 8-11 : 4 passages des Evangiles :
- Saint Jean 1, 1-14. Prologue
- Saint Luc 1, 26-38. L'Annonciation.
- Saint Matthieu2, 1-12. L'Epiphanie du Seigneur.
- Saint Marc 16, 14-20 (sans le premier mot Novissime). L'Apparition aux Disciples.
3. ff. 12-15 : Heures de la Sainte Croix. Uniquement les Hymnes et les collectes des heures.
4. ff. 15v°-17v° : Heures du Saint Esprit. Il n'y a que les Hymnes et les collectes des offices de vigiles, prime, tierce, sexte, none et vêpres.
5. ff. 18-20 : fin d'un office suivie de la messe Salve Sancta Parens.
6. ff. 21-22 : fragment de la prière à la Sainte Vierge Obsecro Te Domina.
7. ff. 23-28 : partie de l'office des matines de l'office de la Sainte Vierge, uniquement les nocturnes II et III.
8. ff. 29-35v° : les laudes de l'office de la Sainte Vierge.
9. ff. 36-38 : prime de l'office de la Sainte Vierge.
10. ff. 39-41 : tierce de l'office de la Sainte Vierge.
11. ff. 42-44r° : sexte de l'office de la Sainte Vierge.
12. ff. 44v°-46 : none de l'office de la Sainte Vierge.
13. ff. 47-51 : vêpres de l'office de la Sainte Vierge.
14. ff. 52-55r° : complies de l'office de la Sainte Vierge.
15. f. 55v° : Début de l'office des vêpres de la Sainte Vierge pour le temps de l'Avent.
16. f. 56r° : épaves de prières mariales.
17. ff. 56v°-57 : prière à la Sainte Vierge et à Saint Jean l'Evangéliste.
18. ff. 58-65v° : antiennes de Magnificat, repons et oraisons pour les offices des saints.
19. ff. 66-70v° : premier nocturne et début du second des matines de l'office des matines de la Sainte Vierge. (La suite est au f. 23).
20. ff. 71-75r° : suite de l'office de la Sainte Vierge pour le temps de l'Avent : vêpres, complies, matines et laudes. (Suite du f. 55v°).
21. ff. 75v°-87r° : les sept psaumes de la pénitence (6,31, 37, 50, 101, 129, 142) avec l'antienne Ne reminiscaris, suivis des litanies majeures et de leurs oraisons.
22. ff. 87v°-108 : les matines et les laudes de l'office des morts.

Miniatures : Fine example. Pen ruled. Numerous initials at the start of the texts, orations, and miniatures: are painted in blue, red, and gold.
Illustrated with 19 large miniatures and 16 smaller miniatures. All miniatures are set on a border with acanthus leaves, heightened in gold, red, and blue.
-f. 8 : saint Jean l'Evangéliste.
-f. 9 : saint Luc
-f. 10 : saint Matthieu.
-f. 11 : saint Marc.
-f. 12 : la Crucifiction.
-f. 15v° : la Pentecôte.
-f. 21 : la Vierge à l'Enfant entourée d'anges.
-f. 29 : la Visitation.
-f. 36 : la Nativité.
-f. 39 : l'Annonce aux bergers.
-f. 42 : l'Adoration des Mages.
-f. 44v° : la Présentation au Temple.
-f. 47 : le Massacre des saints Innocents.
-f. 52 : la Fuite en Egypte.
-f. 55v° : le Couronnement de la Vierge.
-f. 56v° : la Pieta.
-f. 66 : l'Annonciation.
-f. 75v° : la Résurrection des morts.
-f. 87v° : un service funéraire.
-f. 58 : saint Jean-Baptiste.
-f. 58v° : saint Pierre.
-f. 59 : saint Paul.
-f 59v° : saint Jean Evangéliste
-f. 60 : saint André.
-f. 60v° : saint Jacques.
-f. 61 : saint Etienne.
-f.61v° : saint Laurent.
-f. 62 : saint Vincent.
-f. 62v° : saint Victor.
-f. 63 : saint Martin
-f. 63v° : sainte Agathe.
-f. 64 : sainte Barbara.
-f. 64v° : sainte Marguerite.
-f. 65 : sainte Marie-Madeleine.
-f. 65v° : sainte Anne.

Provenance : At page 1, manuscript ex-libris: Ce manuscrit appartient à sa seigneurie le Marquis henri de Pérignon, chevalier des ordres royaux et militaires de Saint Louis et de la Légion d'Honneur, officier de cavalerie, gentilhomme de la chambre de leurs majestés Louis XVIII, Charles X et Henri V.
(This manuscript belonged to François Henri de Pérignon, marquis de Pérignon, knight of the royal and military orders of Saint Louis and of the Legion of Honor, cavalry officer, a gentleman of the chamber of their majesties Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Henri V )

The manuscript belonged to François Henri de Pérignon, Marquis de Pérignon, who was born in Montech on February 23 1793, and died in Granada on October 12, 1841.

Under the ex-libris a heraldic composition evokes the arms of the owner: a ram passing and bypassed, the head crowned with a patriarchal cross; the whole crowned by a crown of marquis.

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