Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment. 112, 2-38, 48−1, 58, 68−2, 7-108, 118−1+2, 128, 132, 14-228, 238−1, 24-258; lacking one folio after fol. 35 and 174, lacking 2 folios after fol. 46 (the central bifolium of quire 6); fol. 83, 88, and 89 are singletons (the original conjoint of fol. 83 was cut away in the mid- to late-fifteenth century, with the text of fol. 88 and the miniature on fol. 89 inserted to... Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines full-length at top, bottom, and into inner margin, bounding and writing lines in red plummet. Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: 2- or 3-line initials alternate blue or rose with white highlighting on gold, with gold-leaf vines into margin; 1-line initials throughout in gold with blue and rose infill; line-fillers blue and rose bars with white and gold highlighting. Eleven half-page miniatures (Parisian in style, according to an unpublished thesis by Margaret Hadley); three full-page miniatures added later... Origin: Written and decorated in Paris for the use of Nantes in the first decade of the fifteenth century, with later fifteenth-century additions. The use of Nantes is indicated by the Calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, and the Office of the Dead. Owned in the mid-fifteenth century by the Saint-Gilles family of Brittany (their arms on the added fol. 100). Owned in the seventeenth century by one Jeanne Govro, with gilt ex libris on covers. Nineteenth-century Parisian bookdealer's label inside front cover, "Auguste Fontaine ; E. Rondeau ; Successeur ; 35 Passage des Panoramas ; Paris." Nineteenth-century bookplate of Henri Lambert...
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