Script and Textual Contents
Description and Contents
The manuscript is written in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textualis).
fols. Iv-VIr Prefatory cycle of six full-page miniatures
fols. VIIr-XIIv Calendar (for use at the Sainte-Chapelle)
fols. XIIIv-162r Psalter
fols. 162r-177v Canticles, Te deum, Quicumque vult
fols. 177v-226v Hours of the Virgin (use of Paris, ends imperfectly), with suffrages to saints inserted at Lauds
fols. 227r-233r Penitential Psalms (begin imperfectly)
fols. 233r-240v Litany with collects
fols. 240v-241r Prayer Suscipere digneris domine
fols. 241r-242r Prayer O intemerata (ends imperfectly)
fols. 242r-271r Office of the Dead (use of Paris, begins imperfectly)
fols. 271r-284v Collects, sermons and lessons for the Nativity of the Virgin, Annunciation, Purification and Assumption
fols. 284v-289r Song of Songs 1-5 (read on Saturdays)
fols. 289r-291r Antiphons for the Psalms recited at Vespers on double feasts, for the Magnificat and the Benedictus in the Hours of the Virgin on Saturdays and during the period from Advent to the Purification
fols. 292r-296r End of an Office of the Holy Spirit and Mass of the Holy Spirit (14th-century addition)
Psalm 1
The verses of Psalm 1 begin with one-line initials (versals) in alternating blue and gold leaf with red or blue pen flourishing. Psalm 2 at the bottom of the page opens with a larger, pink initial Q, filled with foliage and an orange dragon on gold leaf ground, set against an outer blue ground within a gold leaf frame, and extending into spiky foliage which supports a rabbit. This initials and the line fillers, painted in the same style, are the work of the same assistant (Hand 1).