Book of Hours, Use of Bayeux.

Sm. 4to (19,5 x 14,0 cm): [86-1] ff. (modern pencil numb.), in Latin, written in black textura, writing area 11,5 x 7,0 cm, 18 lines per page (light traces of use).

19th-c. red morocco (signed Behrends), gold-tooled spine with raised bands, gilt edges (sm. traces of us).

Content/Text: Calendar (in French); Pericopes; Small Hours of the Virgin mixed with the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost (3 miniatures); Penitential Psalms and Litany of the Saints (1 miniature); Office of the Dead (1 miniature).
Illumination: 5 miniatures in arch-topped compartments (1 miniature 13,4 x 7,4 cm; 4 miniature 10,5 x 7,0 cm), above 4 lines of text, within full decorated borders with flowers, birds and other small animals, 3 borders with gold coloured background (16,0 x 11,2 mm): Annunciation, Crucifixion, Nativity, King David and his harp, Job on his dung heap.
Decoration: 6 richly decorated three-quarter borders with acanthus leaves, flowers and berries; four-line pen-flourished initials with burnished gold, one- and two-line initials and decorative line-ends in blue, red and burnished gold.
Localisation/Origin: Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead following the use of Bayeux; illumination and decoration in the style of the Rouen masters of the end of the 15th c.
Prov. Le Monnier (annot. 1495-1515), Lolif (north of Avranches, Normandy) (ms. entry). - John William Burns, Kilmahew (1837-1900) (bookpl.). - [Georges Petit].