summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
This Flemish Book of Hours of the Use of Rome, likely created in Bruges in the 1430s, contains fourteen full-page miniatures that can be attributed to the Gold Scrolls group of illuminators. Each of the miniatures is on the verso side of an inserted folio, facing the first page of the relevant text. The book begins with a six-folio, unillustrated calendar. The first section, introduced by a miniature of the Man of Sorrows with Instruments of the Passion (fol. 7v), consists of the Hours of the Cross. The Hours of the Holy Spirit, which follows, begins with a miniature of the Pentecost (fol. 12v). The next section consists of the Mass of the Virgin followed directly by the Gospel Lessons. This section is introduced by an image of the Virgin and Child surrounded by a circular brick bench (fol. 16v). The Hours of the Virgin opens with a miniature of the Annunciation for Matins (fol. 24v), but the miniatures for subsequent hours narrate the Passion of Christ: the Betrayal of Christ (fol. 38v); Christ before Pilate (fol. 47v); the Flagellation (fol. 51v); the Carrying of the Cross (fol. 55v); the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and Saint John (fol. 59v); the Deposition (fol. 63v); and the Entombment (fol. 69v). The Hours of the Virgin for Advent follow, introduced by a miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 74v). The Seven Penitential Psalms open with a miniature of the Last Judgment (fol. 81v), while the Office of the Dead begins with a depiction of a funeral scene (fol. 95v). The pall in the latter miniature is decorated with two escutcheons which may represent fictive coats-of-arms, rather than those belonging to the original user. The Office of the Dead is followed by the unillustrated Obsecro te, O intemerata, and Stabat mater prayers. The final three quires are blank but ruled, comprising 24 leaves in total.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
204
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
141
justification : height (mm)
112
justification : width (mm)
76
note (deco)
14 full-page miniatures with foliate (rinceaux type) borders14 6-line illuminated initials; and 1-2 line illuminated initials and full foliate borders throughout.
binding
S. XVex, Venetian, brown morocco, blind-tooled, gilt gauffered edges, traces of original hinges.
origDate : proposed date
c.1430-1440
note (history)
There are two unidentified coats of arms on an altarcloth on fol. 95v.
provenance
Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), London; her husband, Right Hon. William Burdett-Coutts, M.P. (1851-1921); his sale, Sotheby's, London, May 15-17, 1922, lot 274; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia.
bibl
De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, II, p. 2036 n° 66Wolf 1937, p. 108 n° 992001, Philadelphia, p. 94-95 n° 27De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, 2036, no. 66Wolf 1937, 108, no. 99Farquhar 1987, 56, n. 422001, Philadelphia, 94-96, no. 27 ID Arkindex
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HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
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Digitization-type
single page
note (temp)
http://telma.irht.cnrs.fr/outils/luxury-bound/manuscrit2940/
