textLang
Dutch (NL, DUT)Latin (LA, LAT)
summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Rome produced in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. It contains twenty three-to-seven-line historiated initials and three full-page miniatures by a follower of William Vrelant, one of which is an unusual depiction of the heraldic Arma Christi supported by Christ and the Virgin Mary (fol. 92r). The rubrics on fols. 80v, 150r-151r, and 154r are in Dutch.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
163
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
110117
justification : height (mm)
107
justification : width (mm)
72
note (deco)
full-page miniature with full borders and historiated initialsred, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout
binding
S. XIX French black calf. Elaborately gold-tooled decoration on front and back covers, spine, and inside covers. Red satin flyleaves. Gilt and gauffered edges. Metal clasp. Stamped in gold on spine: "HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS."
origDate : proposed date
c.1480 (c.1450-1475)
note (history)
Bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on recto of first end leaf. Printed catalog entries pasted onto verso of first end leaf, recto of second and recto of back fly leaf.
provenance
W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis (his sale, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
ID Arkindex
f3ac9f84-1668-4278-ab93-d3efb34db1d2
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_101.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
note (temp)
http://telma.irht.cnrs.fr/outils/luxury-bound/manuscrit2942/
