Morgan Library M.92 is another Book of Hours from my recent trip. This one is a very early, 2nd quarter of the 13th century, French book, probably made in Paris but use of Soisson. The first couple of leaves are full-page miniatures of the life of Mary, though only as it pertains to Jesus. They start with the Annunciation and proceed through the scenes of Jesus' first year and then Crucifixion. The last few are the death and accumption of Mary, and these are followed by the calendar, starting on f.15r. This calendar is quite lovely, with rondels for both the labor and the zodiac on the outer margin, and bright gold for the parts of the Roman month (Kalends, Nones, etc)
The calendar is interesting from a scribal-practice sense, as the Lombard capitols, in red and blue, that go with most of the Saints were clearly done by a second scribe. These are wrong quite often, and in ways that are so nonsensical, which is entirely different from the very careful and accurate main scribe. Not all the errors are even on unusual saints, December 25th is "Sativitas d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ih[es]u [christi] in bethle[hem]e" (see f.20v below. The tiny picture is the only one available from the Morgan). The formation of the text in unusual, many more feasts are marked "passio" than one usually finds
(DB ID: 73)
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