Remnant of a Book of Hours, annotated in the following centuries, with eight leaves (including three bifolia) in an eighteenth century binding, from France., Fifteenth century (and later annotations).

Description: Remnant of a Book of Hours annotated and augmented in the following centuries, in numerous scripts (including Textualis Formata, Gothico-Antiqua, Hybrida Libraria) and written in Latin and French on parchment. Includes an inscription on the front pastedown dated 1768 naming one of its owners: Jean Hersmulle Duport, doctor of theology (Sorbonne), who taught physics at the Sulpician Grand Seminary of St Irénée, and then became curate of Loire, a village between Lyon and Vienne (until 1791). "Hic libris joannis hersmulle Duport... facultatis parisiensis doctoris theologi.. in ecclesia ligeriensis in diocesi viennensis [Vienne] anno 1768", with eight original leaves from the manuscript, most with added texts. The contents are: 1. one folio numbered 17, with the end of the Gospel lesson of St. Matthew, an inscription in a later hand, and on the verso the capital letters DE LH (the rest blank); 2. one folio with four lines of Latin religious verse in French Humanistic Minuscule script, below which is an erased inscription that can be read in ultraviolet light (naming “Jehan Frenier,” with various place-names: probably Je[h]an Frenier, curé de Saint-Martin de Maulay, near Loudun), the verso blank; 3. six folios from the end of the book, the first being the conclusion of the Suffrages but with the following added: a complete prayer in 90 rhyming couplets of French, beginning “O Iesu roy de tout le monde/En qui toute bonte abonde [Je suis ta pauvre creature/Contemplant ta saincte figure/Se tenant a grands cloux de fer... Helas quel fers, helas quelz cloux/Ils furent forges longs et groux/Pour te faire plus de martyre]” (a variant was printed in 1556 in Fr. Pierre Olivier, Le Mirouer du Chrestien -- Olivier was the spiritual advisor of Marguerite de Navarre -- he revised the Heptaméron), followed by “Les Sept Oraisons de St. Gregoire” complete in seven Latin stanzas; this followed by an inscription, “AU NOM DIEU / AMEN CES HEURES”. This remnant reveals the kinds of texts deemed essential in such books of private devotion but omitted, for whatever reason, from the original commission.Provenance: Acquired in April 2014 by Laurent Ferri.ID Number: CornellMedMS_015_006.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_004.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_002.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_008.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_010.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_014.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_012.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_016.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_020.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_019.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_018.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_017.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_015.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_013.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_011.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_007.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_001.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_009.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_003.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_005.jpg.