IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169678 accession number: MS 140 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 8 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: Richard, seventh viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 – 1816), acquired in 1810; his bequest, 1816 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Viscount Fitzwilliam STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169678 PEOPLE ------------------- Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1490 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1490 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Masters of Hugo Jansz. van Woerden maker: Grote, Geert EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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