Introduction and Tutorial
Books of Hours
The secret of taking useful notes
is the ability to distinguish
the unusual among the common
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Contents
The Calendar
The Gospel Lessons
Obsecro te and O intemerata
The Hours of the Virgin
The Hours of the Cross
The Hours of the Holy Spirit
The Seven Penitential Psalms and Litanies
The Office of the Dead
Commemoration of the Saints
Various Prayers
Accessory Texts
Reference Tools
General Introduction
Introduction to the Study of Books of Hours
Vocabulary and abbreviations
Select
Bibliography
Books of Hours
I. The Calendar
Contents and analysis (how to take notes)
See also under:
Calendars
The composite Paris calendar 1330-1530
with variants
The Utrecht calendar in Dutch with variants
Liturgical calendars
Secular calendars
Empty calendar form
(for printout)
The Calendar Miniatures
II. The Gospel Lessons
(
Sequentia sancti evangelii secundum...
)
Contents
Miniatures of the Evangelists
III. The Prayers Obsecro te and O intemerata
Obsecro te
Introduction and
Text Model
A list of sample
Variants
O intemerata
Text
IV. Hours of the Virgin
(
Hore beate marie virginis
)
Contents
Miniatures
Checklist for the Hours of the Virgin
Matins
(
Ad matutinum
)
Lessons and their Responsories and Versicles
Lauds
(
Ad laudes
)
Prime
(
Ad primam
)
(Hymns at the small hours)
Terce
(
Ad tertiam
)
Sext
(
Ad sextam
)
None
(
Ad nonam
)
Vespers
(
Ad vesperas
)
Compline
(
Ad completorium
)
Identification of the Hours of the Virgin:
CHD Test
A
Selection of Uses
HV-Form
(Formular for taking notes from the Hours of the Virgin)
Example:
Use of Utrecht
V. Hours of the Cross
(
Hore de cruce
)
Contents and Miniatures
Short Hours of the Cross
Officium de sancta Cruce
Long Hours of the Cross
VI. Hours of the Holy Spirit
(
Hore de sancto spiritu
)
Contents and Miniatures
Short Hours of the Holy Spirit
Officium de sancto spiritu
Long Hours of the Holy Spirit
VII. Seven Penitential Psalms
(
Septem psalmi penitentiales
)
Contents and Miniatures
The text of the
Seven penitential psalms
The Litany (
Litanie omnium sanctorum
)
General Introduction
to Litanies
Statistics I
: The Hierarchy of the Saints
Statistics II
: Distribution of the number of Saints
Full text from a french book of hours c.1430-40
Identification of a litany:
Use of Douai
Prayers (
Preces, Oratio
)
VIII. Office of the Dead
(
Vigilie defunctorum or Officium mortuorum
)
Composition and analysis
Lessons
Responsories
Versicles
Prayers (
Preces, Oratio
)
Identification of the Office of the Dead
IX. Commemoration of the Saints
(
Suffragia sanctorum
)
Contents and Miniatures
List of incipits
from Commemoration of saints in the Copenhagen manuscripts
Suffragia Sanctorum
in Ms. GKS 1612 4° (Full transcript)
X. Various Prayers
Latin Prayers
Salve sancta facies
(
Ad sanctam Veronicam
)
Sarum Hours 1503-05
General Index to Incipits
Prayers in French
Doulce dame de misericorde
The 15 Joys of the Virgin (Sonet 458)
Doulx dieu doulx pere sainte trinite
The seven Requests to our Lord (Sonet 504)
XI. Accessory Texts
Psalterium Hieronimi
(Psalter of St. Jerome)
Hore de Passione Domini
(Bruges c.1470)
Hore de Conceptione B.M.V.
Hore de Compassione
Hore de S. Barbara -
Les heures sainte Barbe.
see:
Guyot Hours
and
Hardouin 1512
Hore de S. Katherina (Catharina of Alexandria) see:
Guyot Hours
XII. Reference Tools
Incipits of the Psalms
(
Psalterium Daviticum
)
Psalms Numerical
Psalms Alphabetical
The Hours of the Virgin
Antiphons to the Hours of the Virgin
Sources:
Canticum canticorum
Chapters to the Hours of the Virgin
Sources:
Ecclesiasticus 24
Hymns and Anthems to the Hours of the Virgin
Salve regina
(
Salutatio
)
Gaude flore virginali
(Sarum Hours 1503-05 f.78v-79)
Canticles to the Hours of the Virgin
Prayers to the Hours of the Virgin (
Oratio, Collecta
)
The Office of the Dead
List of Lessons
List of
Responsories
List of
Versicles
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