Book of Hours

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Illuminated Manuscript. Book of Hours. Masters of the Beady Eyes. Use of Sarum, Latin. Gothic bookhand (textualis). Parchment, iv 20th century paper flyleaves + ii 18th century paper flyleaves + 181 fols. + iv contemporary parchment flyleaves + iv 20th century paper flyleaves, 101 x 72 (53 x 35) mm, 14 long lines, ruled in dark pink ink, leaves lost before fol.1 and between fols. 4-5. Production Place: Ghent, Flanders. 1450-1475. BINDING: Early 20th century, black-tooled red leather over pasteboards, by Wilson, Cambridge. CONTENTS: fols. 1r â 5r Fifteen Oes (start imperfectly); fols. 5r â 17v Suffrages fols. 18r â 81v Hours of the Virgin, with memoriae at Lauds; fols. 82r â 110r Penitential Psalms and Litany; fols. 111r â 149v Office of the Dead; fols. 150r â 172r Commendation of the soul; fols. 173r â 181v Psalms of the Passion. DECORATION: Fifteen historiated initials in gold on pink and blue white-patterned grounds with partial floral and spraywork borders for Suffrages and Hours of the Virgin: fol. 5r [G, 7 ll.] St John the Baptist; fol. 7r [G, 7 ll.] Martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury; fol. 9r [G, 7 ll.] St George; fol. 10v [S, 7 ll.] St Christopher; fol. 12r [G, 7 ll.] St Mary Magdalene; fol. 13v [G, 7 ll.] St Catherine; fol. 15r [G, 7 ll.] St Barbara; fol. 16v [G, 7 ll.] St Margaret; fol. 29v Hours of the Virgin, Lauds, [D, 7 ll.] Visitation; fol. 51r Prime [D, 7 ll.] Adoration of the Child; fol. 57r Terce [D, 7 ll.] Annunciation to the Shepherds; fol. 60v Sext [D, 7 ll.] Adoration of the Magi; fol. 64r None, [D, 7 ll.] Presentation in the Temple; fol. 67v Vespers, [D, 7 ll.] Massacre of the Innocents; fol. 70v Compline, [C, 7 ll.] Flight into Egypt. ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink white-patterned initials [5 â 6 ll.] with foliage infill on gold grounds, three-sided bar-borders, and full acanthus, foliage and spraywork borders for some major and lesser text divisions; gold initials [2 ll.] on pink and blue white-patterned grounds; alternate blue and gold one-line initials with red or black pen-flourishing; blue and gold abstract linefillers.
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