summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
This compact Book of Hours opens with a calendar containing Saints associated with Flanders and Northern France, including Saints Amandus and Vedastus (February 6, fol. 2r), Saints Remigius and Bavo (October 1, fol. 10r), Saint Eligius (December 1, fol. 12r) and Saint Nicasius (December 14, fol. 12r). Following the calendar, the book contains the Hours of the Cross and the Hours of the Holy Spirit, followed by the Mass of the Virgin, the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome, and the Advent Hours of the Virgin. The Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers are followed by the Office of the Dead. The final sections contain the Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers, the Psalter of Saint Jerome, a Suffrage to Saint Sebastian, and a Mass of the Archangel Raphael for those who travel. A coat-of-arms (azure a siband sinister or, over all a lion rampant sable to sinister), likely belonging to the original owner, is found on fol. 13r. The manuscript contains seventeen full-page miniatures with blank versos, added as singletons but original to the book. Three miniatures were illuminated in the workshop of the Bruges illuminator Guillaume (William) Vrelant (fl. 1449-1481). Vrelant is considered one of the most influential illuminators active in Bruges during the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
97
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
70
justification : height (mm)
53
justification : width (mm)
36
script type
Textualis meridionalis
note (deco)
17 5-6 line illuminated initials, 2-line illuminated initials with foliate sprays and 1-line illuminated initials throughout, 34 full foliate borders enclosing miniatures and facing text, some inhabited.
binding
S. XIX1, English straight-grained black morocco, gold and blind-tooled and stamped with Masonic symbols, spine labeled in gold: "OFFIC. B.M.V."
origDate : proposed date
c.1450-1480
note (history)
On the second front flyleaf, a note is pasted in: "Sale of Clarence H. Clark, no. 182." The description of this item for sale is pasted onto the reverse; unidentified coat of arms on fol. 14r, possibly the coat of arms of the original owner.
provenance
Clarence H. Clark (1909); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia.
bibl
De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, II, p. 2042 n° 100Wolf 1937, p. 115-116 n° 106De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, 2042, no. 100Wolf 1937, 115-116, no. 1062001, Philadelphia, 83 n. 3, 118 n. 4. ID Arkindex
5b15e58b-d0b3-4b30-9439-fd6d8fe9aa46
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_106.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
note (temp)
http://telma.irht.cnrs.fr/outils/luxury-bound/manuscrit2946/
