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This manuscript is a French book of hours from the third quarter of the fifteenth century. The use is uncertain, but the calendar suggests the Diocese of Tournai. The seventeen large miniatures comprise the Evangelists, a full Infancy cycle for the Hours of the Virgin, Kind David for the penitential psalms, the Virgin on a Crescent Moon holding the infant Christ, four images of saints, a Crucifixion, and the Raising of Lazarus. Depicted in smaller miniatures are a funeral service, an Imago Pietatis, and the infant Christ seated on a cushion. An inscription suggests that the first owner was also the scribe.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+90+ii; 140 x 104 mm bound to 147 x 113 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1-2 (6), 3 (8, -6 -7), 4 (9, +6), 5-8 (8), 9 (10), 10 (8), 11 (6), 12 (8, -6 -7)
Single column, twenty-one lines, red ink, horizontal lines edge to edge; written area: 80 x 60 mm
Bâtarde
Seventeen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides, facing pages with opening of texts, six-line initials and borders on three sides, three smaller miniatures with borders on three sides surrounding image and text, other pages narrow outside border matching text block in height, two-line section initials in gold with alternating red and blue backgrounds, one-line sentence initial alternating gold and blue, calendar with two-line KL and narrow outside border
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 binding was conserved by CCAHA in 2004 through the kind gift of the Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation.
Also called Castle Hours #3
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.
Northern France
Calendar of Bruges points to the Diocese of Tournai; third quarter 15th century
Eighteenth-century leather, gold-tooled with a frame of flowers around a scattering of fleur de lys, in the center a garland of vines the name BERTHELEMY appears in gold on the upper front cover and DU MONTYER on the back.
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Written and illustrated in Northern France in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Colophon at end of the Office of the Dead on fol. 85r, in the same hand as the text: "Pertinet Guilberto Broulin qui les a faictes" suggests that the owner and the scribe were the same person. On fol.18r a note written in English in a much later (and badly faded) hand: "This forgoing report of/ Duke of Lennox--Lord/ Chancellor [ ]/ is what was shewed to/ me as part of the/ of the [ ] of J. Borthwick/ of Crookston for the/ [ ] of one old/[ ] [ ] in/ England and after an/ inspection of it by the/ Guard officers no objection/ was moved agt the/ authenticity of it." Bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston (1824-1907) inside front cover; written on bookplate in ink: "Number in Catalogue XXVIII". On fol. ir in ink: "Ex Libris/ Jo. Borthwick de Crookstown". The name Berthelemy Du Montyer on the cover suggests ownership. Owned by Ethelinda Schaefer Castle of Hawaii, and given by bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1971
Northern France
Calendar of Bruges points to the Diocese of Tournai; third quarter 15th century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Written and illustrated in Northern France in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Colophon at end of the Office of the Dead on fol. 85r, in the same hand as the text: "Pertinet Guilberto Broulin qui les a faictes" suggests that the owner and the scribe were the same person. On fol.18r a note written in English in a much later hand: "This forgoing report of/ Duke of Lennox--Lord/ Chancellor [ ]/ is what was shewed to/ me as part of the/ of the [ ] of J. Borthwick/ of Crookston for the/ [ ] of one old/[ ] [ ] in/ England and after an/ inspection of it by the/ Guard officers no objection/ was moved agt the/ authenticity of it." Bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston (1824-1907) inside front cover; written on bookplate in ink: "Number in Catalogue XXVIII". On fol. ir in ink: "Ex Libris/ Jo. Borthwick de Crookstown". The name Berthelemy Du Montyer on the cover suggests ownership. Owned by Ethelinda Schaefer Castle of Hawaii, and given by bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1971 (provenance)
This manuscript is a French book of hours from the third quarter of the fifteenth century. The use is uncertain, but the calendar suggests the Diocese of Tournai. The seventeen large miniatures comprise the Evangelists, a full Infancy cycle for the Hours of the Virgin, Kind David for the penitential psalms, the Virgin on a Crescent Moon holding the infant Christ, four images of saints, a Crucifixion, and the Raising of Lazarus. Depicted in smaller miniatures are a funeral service, an Imago Pietatis, and the infant Christ seated on a cushion. An inscription suggests that the first owner was also the scribe.
The binding was conserved by CCAHA in 2004 through the kind gift of the Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation.
Also called Castle Hours #3
Bâtarde
Seventeen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides, facing pages with opening of texts, six-line initials and borders on three sides, three smaller miniatures with borders on three sides surrounding image and text, other pages narrow outside border matching text block in height, two-line section initials in gold with alternating red and blue backgrounds, one-line sentence initial alternating gold and blue, calendar with two-line KL and narrow outside border
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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