Manuscript on parchment (very stiff) of a Book of Hours; With Calendar in French.
Description:
An inscription (s. xvii) on f. 25r, below the Coquille arms, reads: "Dame Charlotte Garnier, vefve de feu Gilbert Coquille, Sieur des espoisses, pere de Maitre Anthoine Coquille, a fait faire ces heures-cy dieu leur face Misericorde".
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment. and Written in Bruges in the third quarter of the 15th century; belonged to Count Axel von Kalckreuth and Alva B. (Mrs. Bernard F.) Gimbel (bookplates). Given to Yale by Mrs. Gimbel in 1956 and often referred to as the "Gimbel Hours".
Description:
Binding: ca. 16th century
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper in a neat bookhand of 57 devotional poems written in celebration of the feasts of the Roman Catholic Church from Trinity Sunday to the close of the Time after Pentecost. The volume opens with a 13 stanza poem, "For Trinitie Sunday," followed by a 12 stanza poem, "Of the Blessed Sacrament." Thereafter the poems cover feasts and saints' days from St. Barnaby's Day (June 11) to St. Catherine's Day (November 25); there are several feasts represented by two poems. and The verses are in a variety of stanza forms. Stanzas are numbered, and each poem is headed by a title within rules and closes with "Amen."
Description:
In English., Purchased from Richard Hatchwell on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 1993., and Volume may be the surviving second volume of a set covering the complete church year.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Church year--Poetry, English poetry--16th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library