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This Book of Hours, produced in Flanders around 1460, features an extensive collection of texts devoted to the Virgin Mary, including her Mass and her Office for Advent as well as the usual Hours and prayers. Its full contents are: a calendar (fols. 1v-13r), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 16r-21v), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 23r-28v), the Mass of the Virgin (fols. 30r-34r), Gospel Lessons (fols. 34v-38r), the prayers Obsecro te and O intemerata (fols. 38v-43r), eight suffrages (fols. 44r-47v), the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 49r-106r), the Office of the Virgin for Advent (fols. 108r-114v), the Penitential Psalms followed by the Litany and prayers (fols. 116r-131v), and the Office of the Dead (fols. 133r-168r). There are fourteen full-page miniatures. These show: Pentecost (fol. 15v), Saint Bernardino of Siena (fol. 22v), the Virgin and Child (fol. 29v), the Annunciation (fol. 48v), the Visitation (fol. 64v), the Nativity (fol. 74v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 79v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 84v), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 89v), the Massacre of the Innocents (fol. 94v), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 101v), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 107v), the Last Judgement (fol. 115v), and the Raising of Lazarus (fol. 132v). All miniatures appear Flemish in origin except Saint Bernardino miniature (fol. 22v), which appears French in style and is also the only miniature not to have a grisaille border. The reason for the addition of this miniature in a different style may be due to Saint Bernardino's recent canonization, in 1450. In addition to these full-page miniatures, there are ten historiated initials showing the Virgin and Child (fol. 38v), Pietà (fol. 41r), and the eight saints commemorated in the suffrages–four male and four female (fols. 44r-47v).
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+170+i; 142 x 89 mm bound to 148 x 104 mm; Foliation: Foliated, modern pencil, upper right recto; Collation: uncertain
Single column of eighteen lines; frame ruled; some pages have residual pricking along outer edge; written area: 88 x 57 mm
Gothic--textualis
Initials in red, blue, and gold throughout; ten historiated initials with partial foliate borders; fourteen full-page miniatures with full foliate borders
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
The miniatures may have been produced by an English illuminator working in Flanders
Last folio (fol. 170) is numbered "339"
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Flanders
circa 1460
Nineteenth-century green velvet cover; green color is not characteristic of velvet from before the nineteenth century and the end band stitching also indicates a nineteenth-century date; red clamshell case
Latin
Gift of Mary Schell Collins in memory of her husband, 1945
Flanders
circa 1460
Latin
Gift of Mary Schell Collins in memory of her husband, 1945
This Book of Hours, produced in Flanders around 1460, features an extensive collection of texts devoted to the Virgin Mary, including her Mass and her Office for Advent as well as the usual Hours and prayers. Its full contents are: a calendar (fols. 1v-13r), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 16r-21v), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 23r-28v), the Mass of the Virgin (fols. 30r-34r), Gospel Lessons (fols. 34v-38r), the prayers Obsecro te and O intemerata (fols. 38v-43r), eight suffrages (fols. 44r-47v), the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 49r-106r), the Office of the Virgin for Advent (fols. 108r-114v), the Penitential Psalms followed by the Litany and prayers (fols. 116r-131v), and the Office of the Dead (fols. 133r-168r). There are fourteen full-page miniatures. These show: Pentecost (fol. 15v), Saint Bernardino of Siena (fol. 22v), the Virgin and Child (fol. 29v), the Annunciation (fol. 48v), the Visitation (fol. 64v), the Nativity (fol. 74v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 79v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 84v), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 89v), the Massacre of the Innocents (fol. 94v), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 101v), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 107v), the Last Judgement (fol. 115v), and the Raising of Lazarus (fol. 132v). All miniatures appear Flemish in origin except Saint Bernardino miniature (fol. 22v), which appears French in style and is also the only miniature not to have a grisaille border. The reason for the addition of this miniature in a different style may be due to Saint Bernardino's recent canonization, in 1450. In addition to these full-page miniatures, there are ten historiated initials showing the Virgin and Child (fol. 38v), Pietà (fol. 41r), and the eight saints commemorated in the suffrages–four male and four female (fols. 44r-47v).
The miniatures may have been produced by an English illuminator working in Flanders
Last folio (fol. 170) is numbered "339"
Gothic--textualis
Initials in red, blue, and gold throughout; ten historiated initials with partial foliate borders; fourteen full-page miniatures with full foliate borders
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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