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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Rouen, c.1470-80].
118 x 88mm. i + 137 + i leaves, bound too tightly to collate, ruled space: 68 x 51mm. NINE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES with full borders (lacking calendar, the miniature pages for Sext and Compline and another folio before f.89, repaired loss to the bottom of f.1 and significant rubbing and pigment loss to the Evangelists miniature, further rubbing to certain other miniatures, some offsetting). 17th-century blind-stamped brown calf (rebacked preserving original spine)
PROVENANCE:
(1) LAURENT DE BRACQUEMONT, ownership inscription in an 18th-century French hand on f.137v, the missing text opening Sext noted and re-added in the same hand on 55v and 70v. (2) HENRY HAGEN, 19th-century bookstamp on first flyleaf depicting a dove rising, the crest of the Hagen family of Bermondsey. (3) Gift of JOSEPH W. DREXEL, 1889, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CONTENTS:
Gospel extracts ff.1-6v; Obsecro te ff.7-10v; O intemerata ff.11-14v; Hours of the Virgin (with Suffrages at the end of Lauds) ff.15-70; Penitential psalms ff.71-83; Litany with Collect ff.83v-88v; Short Hours of the Cross ff.89-90v; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.91-93v; Funeral Mass ff.94-137v.
ILLUMINATION:
The quadripartite Evangelist miniature that opens the manuscript is typical of Rouen workshop production from the 1470s-90s (see Rowan Watson, The Playfair Hours, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984, for a discussion of a related group of Rouen manuscripts from this period, including the Playfair Hours), and the charming drolleries and figures – both laymen and angels – that populate the margins also make lively appearances in comparable Rouen manuscripts. Compositionally, certain miniatures make use of the same patterns that can be seen in a Rouen Book of Hours at the Morgan Library (MS. M. 137), suggesting this could be a sister manuscript from one of the workshops that thrived in Rouen in the later 15th century.
The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: Quadripartite depiction of the four Evangelists f.1; Annunciation f.15; Visitation f.26; Nativity f.47; Annunciation f.52v; Presentation in the Temple f.58; Flight into Egypt f. 60; David in Prayer f.71; Funeral Mass f. 94.
118 x 88mm. i + 137 + i leaves, bound too tightly to collate, ruled space: 68 x 51mm. NINE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES with full borders (lacking calendar, the miniature pages for Sext and Compline and another folio before f.89, repaired loss to the bottom of f.1 and significant rubbing and pigment loss to the Evangelists miniature, further rubbing to certain other miniatures, some offsetting). 17th-century blind-stamped brown calf (rebacked preserving original spine)
PROVENANCE:
(1) LAURENT DE BRACQUEMONT, ownership inscription in an 18th-century French hand on f.137v, the missing text opening Sext noted and re-added in the same hand on 55v and 70v. (2) HENRY HAGEN, 19th-century bookstamp on first flyleaf depicting a dove rising, the crest of the Hagen family of Bermondsey. (3) Gift of JOSEPH W. DREXEL, 1889, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CONTENTS:
Gospel extracts ff.1-6v; Obsecro te ff.7-10v; O intemerata ff.11-14v; Hours of the Virgin (with Suffrages at the end of Lauds) ff.15-70; Penitential psalms ff.71-83; Litany with Collect ff.83v-88v; Short Hours of the Cross ff.89-90v; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.91-93v; Funeral Mass ff.94-137v.
ILLUMINATION:
The quadripartite Evangelist miniature that opens the manuscript is typical of Rouen workshop production from the 1470s-90s (see Rowan Watson, The Playfair Hours, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984, for a discussion of a related group of Rouen manuscripts from this period, including the Playfair Hours), and the charming drolleries and figures – both laymen and angels – that populate the margins also make lively appearances in comparable Rouen manuscripts. Compositionally, certain miniatures make use of the same patterns that can be seen in a Rouen Book of Hours at the Morgan Library (MS. M. 137), suggesting this could be a sister manuscript from one of the workshops that thrived in Rouen in the later 15th century.
The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: Quadripartite depiction of the four Evangelists f.1; Annunciation f.15; Visitation f.26; Nativity f.47; Annunciation f.52v; Presentation in the Temple f.58; Flight into Egypt f. 60; David in Prayer f.71; Funeral Mass f. 94.
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