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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.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+154+i; 204 x 141 mm bound to 213 x 150 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; folios 130-end are unfoliated; Collation: 1 (6), 2 (11, +1 +6 +10), 3 (9, +7), 4 (8), 5 (9, +4), 6 (10, +4 +8), 7 (11, +2 +6 +10), 8 (9, +5), 9 (7, +1), 10 (9, +1), 11 (9, +6), 12-18 (8)
One column of twenty lines, red ink ruling (prickings visible); the last twenty-four leaves are ruled but left blank; written area: 112 x 76 mm
Gothic--textualis
Fourteen full-page miniatures with foliate (rinceaux type) borders; fourteen six-line illuminated initials; three three-line illuminated initials, and one-to-two-line illuminated initials, line fillers, and foliate borders on nearly every page
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.
Angel's scroll in the miniature of the Annunciation, fol. 24v, reads: "Ave gratia plena dominus tecum"
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.
Bruges, Belgium
1430s
Late-fifteenth-century, possibly Venetian, brown morocco, blind-tooled, gilt gauffered edges, traces of original hinges; slipcase with "LIVRE D'HEURES, ILLUMINATED M.S., ON VELLUM, ABOUT 1450, (ITALIAN BINDING, 1470)" stamped in gold on spine
Latin
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; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; two unidentified coats of arms on an altar-cloth on fol. 95v
Bruges, Belgium
1430s
Latin
Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
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.
Angel's scroll in the miniature of the Annunciation, fol. 24v, reads: "Ave gratia plena dominus tecum"
Gothic--textualis
Fourteen full-page miniatures with foliate (rinceaux type) borders; fourteen six-line illuminated initials; three three-line illuminated initials, and one-to-two-line illuminated initials, line fillers, and foliate borders on nearly every page
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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