Codex cuj Horæ ad usum Sarum, Rouen c.1420-1430 Copenhagen - Private Collection

CHD Guide
by Erik Drigsdahl

• Guide to Ms. cuj1 with Transcripts of the additional texts.
  [The transcripts are provided with links to a planned online facsimile, but not active due to lack of free space on the server]

Book of Hours (Rouen c.1420-1430, Use of Sarum)
2+248+7 ff. Vellum. 125x81 mm, 16 lines (62x40 mm).
39 miniatures by two different hands, an older master and a younger associate painter (A+B).
Bound in 18th century red morocco with gilt ornamentation.
Collation: No sign of an rearrangement of the gatherings can be seen (The manuscript has no foliation in pencil), Frontleaves f.I-II (the first leaf is the inside of the original binding with glue on recto (former pastedown on wood). Bulk of original ms. 248ff. +2ff. ruled parchment (69x43 mm, 15th Cent. addition) +2ff. parchment (16/17th Cent. addition) +2ff. parchment (inside of original binding, the second was the former pastedown with glue on the verso) +2ff. paper added at last rebinding, without watermark. Pages trimmed unto the edge of the ivyleaf borders.
Provenance: No evidence of the identity of the first owner. On a frontleaf in brown ink: H.Stoughton Book, my son Drakes / Ralph Drake his Book, July 17, 1745. A more recent 20th cent. owner has written in pencil: Stephen/Catherine; Sale Christie's 28 Nov. 1960 Lot 134; Acquired by Maggs Bros. (560 Pounds, price-code in pencil kindly deciphered by Christopher de Hamel in 1997), sold by Maggs in London 1976 to the present owner.
[On Maggs Bros. practise with price-codes see the page on www.manuscripts.org.uk: Maggs].
One of the early books of hours made in Rouen after many artists from the leading workshops in Paris fled the capital up to 1420, heading for their personal safety, and for the new prosperity in Normandy and the North of France, to offer practical relationships with the more provincial establishment of local masters. Master A has affinities both to the Boucicaut workshop and the Bedford Trend.
It is a fascinating idea that the owner (or his wife) very well could have been standing with this book firmly grasped in his hands, when he after all probability, as an important English official witnessed that Joan of Arc was burned alive on the stake 31st May 1431 in Rouen.
Books of Hours with such long sequences of additional texts seems to be a Rouennaise speciality during the occupation of the English from 1419-1449. Most of the manuscripts in the cathegory, before 1450, with unusual long accessory texts are written for Sarum use in Rouen. (Cf. Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M.27 and Ms.G.9 (Plummer: Last Flowering No.21, 23.).

Opening of the Commendation of the Souls, f.154v-155 Souls carried to Heaven by Angels Private Collection in Denmark

Contents

f.1-12v	Kalendarium In French, saints alternating in gold and blue (thus no rubrications!). (Sparsely filled, for use in Rouen with no attempt to add English saints). [Transcript on database Rouen] (Notable: 1.2.Sever, 9.2.Ausbert, 10.2.Austreberte, 4.9.Hue, 5.6.Saturin, 12.6.Ursin, 19.7.Cler, 21.7.Victor, 28.7.Sanson, 6.8.Sauveur, 9.8.Romain, 20.8.Philliber, 27.8.Vivien, 31.8.Oct. s.Ouen, 15.9.Lubin, 11.10.Nigaise, 16.10.Michiel, 23.10.Romain, 15.11.Maclou, 26.11 Lin pape, 30.12.Ursin]
	HORAE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS AD MATUTINUM (Use of Sarum)
f.13	*The Annunciation
	AD LAUDES
f.24	/¶[2] Ave regina celorum. In laudibus. ¶[3]Deus in adiutorium [3/4 border, no miniature]
f.33v	[Oro.]/Concede nos famulos tuos -> Versus. Domine exaudi. R. Et clamor. V.Benedicamus domino. R. Deo gratias. Pater noster. Ave maria.
	->>De s. trinitate. Antiphona.// [A complete transcript of the Suffrages is in progress]
	MEMORIE SANCTORUM ad Laudes
f.34	*The Trinity (Large miniature, full border)
f.35v	*St.Michael and the Dragon (Large miniature, full border)
f.36v	*St. John the Baptist (With the Lamb. Large miniature, full border)
f.37v	*St. John the Evangelist (Large miniature, full border)
f.38v	*St. Stephen (Large miniature)
f.39v	*St.Lawrence (Large miniature, full border)
f.41	*St.Christopher (Large miniature, full border, Hand A)
f.42	*St.Sebastian (Large miniature, full border. Hand B, also different scribe)
f.43v	*St.Anthony the Abbot (Large miniature, full border. Hand B)
f.45	*St.George (Large miniature, full border, Hand A)
f.46	*St.Julian (Large miniature, full border, hand A)
f.46v	->>(2 lines blank) Sequitur de sancta anna memoria. Antiphona.//
	MEMORIE SANCTARUM
f.47	*St.Anne (Large miniature, full border, hand A)
f.48	*St.Katherine (Large miniature, full border, hand A)
f.49	*St.Mary Magdalena (Large miniature, full border, hand B)
f.50	*St.Margaret (Large miniature, full border, hand B)
f.51	*St.Barbara (Large miniature, full border, hand A)
	AD MATUTINUM DE CRUCE
f.53	*The Betrayal of Christ (Large miniature, full border, hand A)
	AD PRIMAM
f.54	*The Nativity
	AD PRIMAM DE CRUCE
f.59	*Christ before Pilate
	AD TERTIAM
f.60	*The Annunciation to the Shepheards
	AD TERTIAM DE CRUCE
f.63	*The Flagellation of Christ
	AD SEXTAM
f.63v	*The Adoration of the Magi
	AD SEXTAM DE CRUCE
f.66v	*The bearing of the Cross
	AD NONAM
f.67v	*Presentation in the Temple
	AD NONAM DE CRUCE
f.70v	*The Crucifixion
	AD VESPERAS
f.71v	*The Flight into Egypt
	AD VESPERAS DE CRUCE
f.77	*Descent from the Cross
	AD COMPLETORIUM
f.78v	*Coronation of the Virgin
	AD COMPLETORIUM DE CRUCE
f.83	*The Resurrection of Christ
	SEPTEM PSALMI PENITENTIALES
f.88	*Christ enthroned blessing the Sacrament
	LITANIE
f.111v	blank
	OFFICIUM DEFUNCTORUM (Use of Sarum)
f.112	*Funeral reading over the bear in a Chapel
	¶Dilexi quoniam ->
	Lec.i. Parce R. Credo quod V. Quem visurus Lec.ii. Tedet R. Qui lazarum V. Qui venturus Lec.iii. Manus R. Domine quando veneris V. Commissa mea Lec.iv. Quantas habeo R. Heu michi V. Anima mea Lec.v. Homo natus R. Ne recorderis V. Dirige domine Lec.vi. Quis michi R. Domine secundum actum V. Amplius lava me Lec.vii. Spiritus meus R. Peccantem me V. Deus in nomine Lec.viii. Pelli mee R. Requiem eternam V. Qui lazarum Lec.ix. Quare de vulva R.Libera me V. Dies illa V. Quid ego miserrimus etc.
	COMMENDATIO ANIMARUM
f.154v	*Souls carried to Heaven by Angels
f.155	¶Beati immaculati in via ->
	PASSION PSALMS
f.174v	*Christ as the Man of Sorrows
f.175	¶Deus deus meus ->[Pss.21-30]
	PSALTERIUM HIERONIMI
f.189v	*St.Jerome as Cardinal
f.190	¶Verba mea auribus percipe ->
	ORATIONES DIVERSE
f.210v	*The Vision of St.Gregory
f.211	¶O Domine ihesu xpe eterna dulcedo (Orationes Sancte Birgitte or "The 15 O's") ->
f.222v	*The Trinity (Gnadestuhl)
f.223	[Oratio] ¶Domine deus omnipotens pater ->
f.224	[Oratio] ¶Libera me domine fili dei ->
f.225v	*The immaculate Virgin
f.226	¶Salve virgo virginum ->
f.234v	*St.Barbara
f.226	¶Gaude Barbara serena ->
	GOSPEL READINGS
f.237	Initium sancti evangelij secundum iohannem.
f.238v	Secundum lucam.
f.240	Secundum matheum.
f.240	Secundum marcum.
f.240	Passio domini nostri secundum iohannem.
	STABAT MATER
f.244v	¶Stabat mater dolorosa...
	O INTEMERATA
f.245v	¶O intemerata...
	OBSECRO TE
f.249	¶Obsecro te
f.252v	¶O bone ihesu. O piissime ihesu
f.255	¶Domine ihesu xpriste qui septem verba
f.258v	->>13 lines blank//
f.259	explicit