File:Book of Hours, Use of Paris (Horae Baetae Virginis cum calendario) (IA 1967 30 122).pdf

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1967‑30‑122. Paris, France, Circa 1470. This Book of Hours was made in Paris around the year 1470 and has been linked to the workshop of Maître François (fl. 1462-1480). It contains a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v); Gospel Lessons (fols. 13r-19v); Obescro te and O intemerata (fols. 19v-27v); the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Paris (fols. 29r-102v); the Hours of the Cross (fols. 103r-112r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 112v-119v); the Penitential Psalms followed by a litany and prayers (fols. 121r-138v); the Office of the Dead, lacking its beginning and presumably a miniature (fols. 139r-189r); the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 189v-195v), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord followed by various prayers and suffrages in both French and Latin, including a prayer (A Royne qui fustes mise et assise...) attributed to Guillaume Alexis (fols. 196r-217v). The Gospel Lessons are decorated with a large miniature of Saint John the Evangelist (fol. 13r), and small miniatures of the other three evangelists (fols. 15r, 16v, and 18v). The remaining twelve large miniatures show the Annunciation (fol. 29r), the Visitation (fol. 55v), the Nativity (fol. 69v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 74r), the Adoration of the Magi (fols. 79r), the Presentation in the Temple (fols. 84r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 89r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 96v), the Crucifixion (fol. 103r), Pentecost (fol. 112v), King David in Prayer (fol. 121r), and the Trinity (fol. 196r).