Illuminated manuscript by the Master of the Ango Hours, approximately 1520-1530.
145 vellum leaves, 20 lines per page, ruled in red; written in brown ink with red rubrics. Includes 14 large miniatures with gold borders; 20 smaller miniatures throughout. Binding is late sixteenth or early seventeenth French red morocco with gilt tooling.
Contents: Calendar -- Sequence of the Gospels -- Passion sequence -- Obsecro te, O intemerata and other prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Hours of the Virgin (Use of Rouen) in the mixed form with the Hours of the cross and the Hours of the Holy Spirit -- Seven penitential psalms and litany -- Office of the dead (Use of Rouen and Avranches) -- Memorials to the saints -- Stabat mater and other prayers.
Description by Les Enluminures, Ltd., bookseller, notes "The two girls in Renaissance costume attending St. Elizabeth in the miniature on leaf 38v may be the [original] owner's daughters."
Titled supplied by cataloger.
This manuscript was donated to the Marian Library by
