Richardson 10, from Harvard's Houghton Library, is a profoundly weird French Book of Hours, circa 1515. The calendar is Parisian-ish, nearly full, with mostly the standard Paris saints, but not a full Paris-set, i.e. January starts with the Circumcision and lacks St. Geneieve (see f.1r below). After the calendar the book contains the Lords Prayer (in French) and 7 sets of Hours, possibly as one for each day of the week. These Hours include both the usual ones -- Hours of the BVM, Hours of the Holy Cross, the unusual ones -- Hours of Passion. Then it has some completely made-up things -- the Hours of All Saints, the Hours of St. Barbara, a Mass against Pestelence, etc. There are no Gospel pericopes and no obvious Litanies, though there are prayers to St. Catherine and St. Martin of Tours. To round it out, the cover is about 50 years later than the text, brass (or bronze perhaps), with a layer of red paint carved back to reveal the arms and emblem of Catherine de Medici.
(DB ID: 189)
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