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Book of Hours
Artists:
Masters of Hugo Jansz. van Woerden
Author:
Grote, Geert
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 105 fols. + ii paper flyleaves, 181 x 125 (90 x 67) mm, 18 long lines, ruled in crayon, leaves lost before fols. 57 and 71, and after fol. 105.
BINDING: 19th century, blind-tooled brown leather over bevelled wooden boards, edges gilt, by C. Lewis, 7 Denmark Ct., Strand, London (label on verso of first flyleaf at front), who also re-bound Fitzwilliam Museum, MSS 75 and 122; spine from previous 18th century binding repaired.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12v Calendar; fols. 14r – 49v Hours of the Virgin; fols. 51r – 56v Hours of the Cross; fols. 57r – 70v Penitential Psalms and Litany;
fols. 71r – 90v Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; fols. 92r – 105v Office of the Dead (ends imperfectly).
DECORATION: Three full-page miniatures in arched frames, with full acanthus and floral borders on plain parchment grounds at major text divisions:
fol. 13v Hours of the Virgin, Annunciation; fol. 50v Hours of the Cross, Crucifixion with Virgin, St John, St Mary Magdalene, and spectators; fol. 91v Office of the Dead, Resurrection, Christ rising from tomb, soldiers sleeping, two women approaching.
Five historiated initials in white-patterned blue on gold grounds, with identical three-sided borders including half-length musical angels, facing full-page miniatures at major text divisions: fol. 14r Hours of the Virgin, [H, 10 ll.] Virgin offering breast to Christ Child; fol. 51r [H, 9 ll.] Man of Sorrows with Instruments of the Passion; fol. 57r Penitential Psalms, [H, 10 ll.] David penitent; fol. 71r Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, [M, 9 ll.] Man of Sorrows and Virgin kneeling beneath rays in sky; fol. 92r Office of the Dead, [M, 9 ll.] Souls in Purgatory engulfed in flames and praying to rays in sky.
ORNAMENTATION: Gold initials [3 ll.] on dark pink grounds with sraywork extensions and bars of acanthus and foliage in upper and lower borders; alternate blue and red penwork initials [2 ll.] with red or blue pen-flourished extensions; alternate red and blue penwork one-line initials; capitals highlighted in red.
History note: Richard, seventh viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 – 1816), acquired in 1810; his bequest, 1816
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
15th Century, Late
Circa
1490
CE
-
Circa
1500
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Page
Height 181 mm
Width 125 mm
Text
Height 90 mm
Width 67 mm
Accession number: MS 140
Primary reference Number: 169678
Project ID: 76
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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