Details
BOOK OF HOURS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Chartres?, ca.1470]
121 x 90mm, 157 leaves and original vellum fly-leaf, COMPLETE. Collation: 1-26 3-48 512 66 7-88 92 (9/2 blank) 10-158 166 17-188 192 20-218 224 (22/3 blank, without final blank 22/4). 13 lines, ruled in red, justification: 70 x 52mm, written in brown ink, rubrics in red, versal initials in red and blue, two-line illuminated initials in gold on blue and red ground with white tracery, 12 three- and four-line initials in blue on gold ground, infilled with branchwork decoration and with outer panel border, 4 LARGE MINIATURES within arched compartments with full borders of acanthus leaves and coloured flowers and fruit, (one miniature smudged). 18th-century red morocco, gilt edges.
PROVENANCE:
The use of the Hours is uncertain, but the calendar contains saints usually associated with Chartres. Leobinus (14 March) and his translation (15 Sept.) both in red; Cheron (28 May) in red; also in red are Arnulph, bishop of Tours (18 July) and Anna (26 July). Leobinus is also one of the confessors in the Litany.
Herzogliche S. Meiningische Bibliothek ms 61 (stamp on first leaf and calendar leaf).
TEXT:
(ff1-12) Calendar; (f.13) Gospel Sequences; (f.20) Obsecro te; (f.24v) O intemerata; (f.32) prayers; (f.42) Suffrages; (f.50) Passion according to John; (f.65) Hours of the Virgin, Matins; (f.77) Lauds; (f.89) Hours of the Cross; (f.90) Hours of the Holy Ghost; (f.91) Prime; (f.97) Terce; (f.101) Sext; (f.105) None; (f.109) Vespers; (f.112v) Compline; (f.119) Penitential Psalms and Litany; (f.139) Office of the Dead
DECORATION:
There are only 4 large miniatures, the remaining offices are noted by large illuminated initials. The subjects of the miniatures are:
folio 50. The Betrayal. Christ, Judas and soldiers in a landscape; Simon Peter about to cut off Malchus's ear
folio 65. The Annunciation. (The angel is smudged)
folio 119. King David at prayer before an altar.
folio 139. Death with his spear pointing at three figures, a Pope, a King and a Queen, standing in front of a gothic church
[Chartres?, ca.1470]
121 x 90mm, 157 leaves and original vellum fly-leaf, COMPLETE. Collation: 1-26 3-48 512 66 7-88 92 (9/2 blank) 10-158 166 17-188 192 20-218 224 (22/3 blank, without final blank 22/4). 13 lines, ruled in red, justification: 70 x 52mm, written in brown ink, rubrics in red, versal initials in red and blue, two-line illuminated initials in gold on blue and red ground with white tracery, 12 three- and four-line initials in blue on gold ground, infilled with branchwork decoration and with outer panel border, 4 LARGE MINIATURES within arched compartments with full borders of acanthus leaves and coloured flowers and fruit, (one miniature smudged). 18th-century red morocco, gilt edges.
PROVENANCE:
The use of the Hours is uncertain, but the calendar contains saints usually associated with Chartres. Leobinus (14 March) and his translation (15 Sept.) both in red; Cheron (28 May) in red; also in red are Arnulph, bishop of Tours (18 July) and Anna (26 July). Leobinus is also one of the confessors in the Litany.
Herzogliche S. Meiningische Bibliothek ms 61 (stamp on first leaf and calendar leaf).
TEXT:
(ff1-12) Calendar; (f.13) Gospel Sequences; (f.20) Obsecro te; (f.24v) O intemerata; (f.32) prayers; (f.42) Suffrages; (f.50) Passion according to John; (f.65) Hours of the Virgin, Matins; (f.77) Lauds; (f.89) Hours of the Cross; (f.90) Hours of the Holy Ghost; (f.91) Prime; (f.97) Terce; (f.101) Sext; (f.105) None; (f.109) Vespers; (f.112v) Compline; (f.119) Penitential Psalms and Litany; (f.139) Office of the Dead
DECORATION:
There are only 4 large miniatures, the remaining offices are noted by large illuminated initials. The subjects of the miniatures are:
folio 50. The Betrayal. Christ, Judas and soldiers in a landscape; Simon Peter about to cut off Malchus's ear
folio 65. The Annunciation. (The angel is smudged)
folio 119. King David at prayer before an altar.
folio 139. Death with his spear pointing at three figures, a Pope, a King and a Queen, standing in front of a gothic church