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This Books of Hours for the Use of Rome was produced in Bruges in the late fifteenth century. It contains a calendar, in French, of the Use of Utrecht (fols. 1r-12v), followed by the Prayer to the Face of Christ (fols. 13r-14r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 15r-21v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit followed by the Gospel Lessons (fols. 23r-33v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 34r-84r), Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers (fols. 84v-90v), Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 92r-108v), Office of the Dead (fols. 110r-135v), and a final section composed of the Athanasian Creed, Veni creator, and other prayers to a Guardian Angel followed by Suffrages, the Seven Verses of Saint Bernard, and a final Suffrage to Saint Christopher (fols. 136r-152v). Four major textual sections are preceded by full-page miniatures attributed to the Master of Edward IV (active c. 1470-1490), each of which has a blank recto side: these represent the Pentecost (fol. 22v), the Annunciation (fol. 33v), King David in Prayer (fol. 91v), and the Three Living and the Three Dead (fol. 109v). The miniatures and the incipit pages of these sections, as well as the incipit pages on fols. 13r and 15r, are surrounded by full-page strewn-flower panel borders with gold wash backgrounds. The borders of the page opening for the Office of the Dead (fols. 109v-110r) are composed of dark grey backgrounds with skulls. A single small inset miniature illustrates the Suffrage to Saint John the Baptist (fol. 141v). This suffrage page, as well as the post-Matins divisions within the Hours of the Virgin, have matching strewn-flower border of the single-panel type. The book was in the Guyon de Sardière and La Vallière collections in the eighteenth century.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+152+iii; 175 x 125 mm bound to 180 x 140 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2 (9, +9), 3 (8), 4 (9, +5), 5-10 (8), 11 (5, +5), 12 (7, +1), 13 (10), 14-18 (8), 19 (4)
One column of fifteen lines; frame-ruled in red ink (extremely faint); written area: 95 x 65 mm
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Four full-page miniatures with elaborate borders, one quarter-page miniature, six decorated initials in full-page borders, seven decorated initials with vertical border bars
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Three front flyleaves, two paper followed by one parchment; end flyleaves, one parchment followed by two paper
Calendar and rubrics in French
The Suffrages include saints Adrien, Aubert, Erasme, and Piat
"Guyon de Sardière" inscribed on ff. 1r and 152v; signature of Robert Hoe and notes by John F. Lewis on the front flyleaves
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Bruges, Belgium
Late 15th century
Eighteenth-century Dutch red morocco; gold-tooled boards and spine; silver pierced cut-work clasp; velvet bag preserved in modern clamshell box
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Signature of Jean-Baptiste-Denis Guyon de Sardière, fols. 1r and 152v, eighteenth century; Catalogue des livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M.J.B. Denis Guyon, Paris, 1759, no. 34; Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, 1759; Catalogue des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de M.L.D.D.L.V , by Guillaume de Bure, Paris, 1767, vol. 1, no. 266; clipping from an auction catalogue thought to be Sotheby's pasted onto folio i verso, c. 1890; Robert Hoe, New York; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1912, IV, lot 2343; A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Bruges, Belgium
Late 15th century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Signature of Jean-Baptiste-Denis Guyon de Sardière, fols. 1r and 152v, eighteenth century; Catalogue des livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M.J.B. Denis Guyon, Paris, 1759, no. 34; Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, 1759; Catalogue des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de M.L.D.D.L.V , by Guillaume de Bure, Paris, 1767, vol. 1, no. 266; clipping from an auction catalogue thought to be Sotheby's pasted onto folio i verso, c. 1890; Robert Hoe, New York; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1912, IV, lot 2343; A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
This Books of Hours for the Use of Rome was produced in Bruges in the late fifteenth century. It contains a calendar, in French, of the Use of Utrecht (fols. 1r-12v), followed by the Prayer to the Face of Christ (fols. 13r-14r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 15r-21v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit followed by the Gospel Lessons (fols. 23r-33v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 34r-84r), Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers (fols. 84v-90v), Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 92r-108v), Office of the Dead (fols. 110r-135v), and a final section composed of the Athanasian Creed, Veni creator, and other prayers to a Guardian Angel followed by Suffrages, the Seven Verses of Saint Bernard, and a final Suffrage to Saint Christopher (fols. 136r-152v). Four major textual sections are preceded by full-page miniatures attributed to the Master of Edward IV (active c. 1470-1490), each of which has a blank recto side: these represent the Pentecost (fol. 22v), the Annunciation (fol. 33v), King David in Prayer (fol. 91v), and the Three Living and the Three Dead (fol. 109v). The miniatures and the incipit pages of these sections, as well as the incipit pages on fols. 13r and 15r, are surrounded by full-page strewn-flower panel borders with gold wash backgrounds. The borders of the page opening for the Office of the Dead (fols. 109v-110r) are composed of dark grey backgrounds with skulls. A single small inset miniature illustrates the Suffrage to Saint John the Baptist (fol. 141v). This suffrage page, as well as the post-Matins divisions within the Hours of the Virgin, have matching strewn-flower border of the single-panel type. The book was in the Guyon de Sardière and La Vallière collections in the eighteenth century.
Three front flyleaves, two paper followed by one parchment; end flyleaves, one parchment followed by two paper
Calendar and rubrics in French
The Suffrages include saints Adrien, Aubert, Erasme, and Piat
"Guyon de Sardière" inscribed on ff. 1r and 152v; signature of Robert Hoe and notes by John F. Lewis on the front flyleaves
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Four full-page miniatures with elaborate borders, one quarter-page miniature, six decorated initials in full-page borders, seven decorated initials with vertical border bars
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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