Dismembered Manuscripts Macon Hours c.1475 - 16 lines Heures à l'usage de Macon c.1475

3/4 Border at opening of all small Hours Compline of the Hours of the Virgin Private Collection	Ordinary text page ruled for 16 lines Gradual psalm 127: Beati omnes qui timent Private Collection

Heures à l'usage de Macon c.1475
Vellum xx ff. 166 mm x 122/124 mm. 16 lines, textura.
[Only a few leaves are known, the key information is provided by the leaves transcribed below. Owners of other leaves are kindly asked to provide additional information]
Nothing was known about the provenance of this manuscript, until two leaves with the key incipits for the use of Macon turned up for sale within one week. It cannot be identified in any major sales during the last century, and is then most likely to have been inadequately described as something else without a correct identification of the use. The quality of script and decoration is quite good, allthough the perfection of the craftmanship is giving single leaves a rather anonymous look. Single leaves of generel contents can only be identified by the measures of the leaf and the size of the textual area (which is unknown at this moment).
[Sellers Description: This leaf is a nice example of a medieval hand-written religious text. The leaf is in Latin, written in dark brown ink in the "textura" style, the initials and line fillers heightened in gold and various colors. There are intricate details, masterfully executed on the initials and the line fillers. We will supply a certificate of authenticity for each leaf. Condition: In excellent condition with minor soiling, spotting, or staining, minor marginal damage, minor original flaws in the parchment.
Dimensions of the leaf: ca.6.5" x 4.75" (166 mm x 122 mm) item=7345388210]
[Another leaf: We offer an original, beautiful illuminated vellum leaf with colorful initials heightened in gold and with a marvelous border, ca. 1470. This vellum leaf is from a fragment of a French Book of Hours, written in a scriptorium in Northern France around 1470.(The calendar lists the days of saints that were observed in Paris and the northern part of France.) This leaf is a nice example of a medieval hand-written religious text. The leaf is in Latin, written in dark brown ink in the "textura" style, the initials and line fillers heightened in gold and various colors. Dimensions of the leaf: ca.6.5" x 4.75" (166 mm x 124 mm). ]

*Please notice that a similar Book of Hours (of hitherto unknown use and provenance), 16 lines with the same type of script and linefillers is on the market at the same time. The other manuscript had, however, a large miniature at the opening of each of the small hours, unlike the Macon Hours where only a 3/4 border decorate the openings. It is possible that the leaf from Matins transcribed below is from the other manuscript!