File:Book of Hours, Use of Paris (IA 1967 30 121).pdf

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1967‑30‑121. France, 1470 through 1480, with 16th century additions. This manuscript is a book of hours, Use of Paris (except for the hymn in Prime). Most of the manuscript was made in France in the late fifteenth century. It is lacking a calendar, and six of the fifteen large illuminations marking major text divisions are now missing. The fifteenth-century manuscript is written in Latin, except for two prayers at the end in Middle French (fols. 141r-148r), and decorated with illuminated side borders and letters on every page. Additional prayers in French (including a prayer to Saint Michael, a prayer to a guardian angel, a prayer for one's enemies, and prayers to the Virgin) and Latin (including prayers to Saint Barbara, Saint Appollonia, Saints Cosmas and Damian, and the Virgin, as well as a litany of the angels), written in a humanist hand probably in the sixteenth century, have been added on the final blank parchment leaf (fol. 149) and added paper leaves at the end (fols. 150-177).