Cornell University, Archives 6532.01.17 6532 Box 1 folder 17

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12186

Shelfmark:

Archives 6532.01.17 6532 Box 1 folder 17

Title:

Remnant of a Book of Hours, annotated in the following centuries, with eight leaves (including three bifolia) in an eighteenth century binding

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1400s.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin and French; numerous scripts, including Textualis Formata, Gothico-Antiqua, and Hybrida Libraria

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume ; 172 x 122/280 mm.

Note:

Leaves all approximately 160 x 122 mm (99 x 71 mm), in larger binding.
A variant of the French prayer in 90 rhyming couplets was printed in 1556 in Le Mirouer du Chrestien by Fr. Pierre Olivier. Olivier was the spiritual advisor of Marguerite de Navarre; he revised the Heptaméron.
Provenance: Jean Hersmulle Duport, 1768 (signature): "Hic libris joannis hersmulle Duport... facultatis parisiensis doctoris theologi. in ecclesia ligeriensis in diocesi viennensis [Vienne] anno 1768." Duport was a doctor of theology (Sorbonne) who taught physics at the Sulpician Grand Seminary of St Iréné, and then became curate of Loire, a village between Lyon and Vienne (until 1791).
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Keyword:

Prayers and devotions

bifolia

Books of hours

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13142993

Holding Institution:

Cornell University