Beinecke MS 577
Catholic Church.  Liturgy and ritual.  Hours. Horae, with calendar in French.
Latin manuscript.  France, 15th century.  Vellum. 152 ff. (200 x 135 mm.) 1
column, 14 lines.  Gothic script.  Twelve minatures with full borders;
illuminated initials in blue, rose, and gold; borders with arabesques, birds,
flowers, fruit, and animals.  Bound in contemporary brown calf blind; stamped
with square stamps of monkeys and fleur-de-lys in central panel; rosette and
phoenix stamps in border panels; spine repaired; clasps missing.
  
   The book is composed of signatures of 8, with some irregularities.  The
binding is too tight to permit accurate collation.

Comments:  The flyleaf is filled with French notes in a 17th century hand. 
Folios 1-3 contain marginal notations, in French in an 18th century hand, of
family records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths.  

Inscription on flyleaf: J'apartiens a M. Deboiville, officier du Regiment de
Neustrie demeuvant a sa terre du Bouchirot pres de Lisieux.  Bookplate of
Charles J. Rosenbloom.  Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom, 1 October 1974.

Bibliography:  S. Rutter and D. Gallup, "A Checklist of the Bequest  [of
Charles J. Rosenbloom]," Yale University Library Gazette 49 (1975) p. 341, no.
171.

Albert Derolez