note (deco)
15 large miniatures, either full-page (sometimes incorporating a few words of text, as on fols. 13r and 29r) or in large arch-topped compartments above large illuminated initials and within full illuminated floral borders including birds and grotesques, showing Saint John on Patmos (fol. 13r, Gospel Sequences), the Virgin and Child, full-length, enthroned (fol. 21r, Obsecro te), the Virgin suckling the Child, Virgo Lactans half-length, attended by angels, above a coat-of-arms (fol. 29r, Matins), the Visitation (fol. 45r, Lauds), the Crucifixion (fol. 59v, Matins of the Cross), Pentecost (fol. 61v, Matins of the Holy Ghost), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 63r, Prime, although the subject is normal for Terce), the Nativity (fol. 72v, Terce, although the subject is normal for Prime), the Magi (fol. 79v, Sext), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 87r, None), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 93r, Vespers), the Assumption of the Virgin (fol. 105r, Compline), David in prayer (fol. 117r, the Penitential Psalms), Job and his three comforters (fol. 143r, Office of the Dead), and an angel with the Symbols of the Passion (fol. 209r, verses on the Instruments of the Passion).Calendar in alternating lines of red and blue with major entries in gold; small initials and line-fillers throughout in liquid gold on colored panels.
binding
Bound in late sixteenth-century French dark brown morocco gilt, gilt edges, lacking 2 pairs of ties; in a fawn cloth case.
note (history)
Coat-of-arms, smudged but including azure a bend, apparently or, perhaps those of a member of the Burgundian family of Longwy (Rietstap 1884-1887, II, p. 94). A possible candidate might be Philippe de Longwy (1447–1493), seigneur de Pagny, or his elder brother, Étienne de Longwy, bishop of Mâcon 1485–1511. Prayers in the manuscript are for male use.
provenance
Damascène Morgand, Bulletin mensuel 29 (November 1891), no. 19790 (cutting inside upper cover); Elisabeth Ball (1897-1982); part of her bequest to the Lilly Library, 1982.
