15929998400001312637261000Standard Recordobject-169755170197596114015982666470001701975719084fitz-onlineadlib-object-169755https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169755ecf5aaeb-143c-31cb-95e5-fdeecadcba0a8referenceagent-184666adlib-agent-1846664151454a-e1dd-317d-a7d5-ac718fceeb18Phillipps, Thomas, Sirreferenceagent-187677adlib-agent-1876778310a772-eaaf-3b7f-bad2-f022788046d6Jardel at Braine, Claude Robertreferenceagent-187676adlib-agent-187676709f0e6f-0ff5-3e8c-be7b-4ae613241b86Monastery of St Adrian at Grammontreferenceterm-110558adlib-term-110558ee824bc5-8d70-3060-824d-9ed6f392557billuminated manuscriptreferenceterm-114522adlib-term-11452276be19ae-554e-3b73-af2d-112e09263aafmanuscriptreferenceterm-118780adlib-term-118780c5f3b968-f763-357a-b740-9f216e114859parchmentSupportHeightmm115-121Widthmm77TextHeightmm200Widthmm138PageManuscripts and Printed BooksPHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 185 fols., 200 x 138 (115 – 121 x 77) mm, 17 long lines, ruled in pink ink, quire and leaf signatures, catchwords, leaves lost after fols. 49, 60, 71, 80, 89, 98, 105, 110, 136, 184.
BINDING: Mid-fifteenth century, brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on five double supports, blind-stamped central panel with stamp of double-headed eagle, orange and green endbands carried over head and tail of spine, traces of two fastening devices, edges gilt and gauffered, pastedowns from 13th and 14th century manuscripts
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12v Calendar; fols. 13r – 16v Hours of the Cross (begins imperfectly with Nones); fols. 17r – 110v Hours of the Virgin (imperfect); fols. 111r – 123r Penitential Psalms; fols. 123r – 136v Litany with collects; fols. 137r – 184v Office of the Dead (begins imperfectly).
DECORATION: 20 medallions within full acanthus and spraywork borders at major text divisions showing Old Testament prefigurations of the New Testament subjects which were originally in the full-page miniatures (all cut out) on the facing versos: fol. 13r Hours of the Cross, None, 2 medallions: Eleazar Maccabaeus killing elephant with two men in tower on its back, King of Moab sacrificing first-born son; fol. 14r Vespers, 2 medallions: Naomi lamenting, David lamenting at Abner’s funeral procession; fol. 15r Compline, 2 medallions: Adam and Eve mourning the dead Abel, Jonah cast into the sea; fol. 17r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, 2 medallions: Ezekiel asleep before the porta clausa, Gideon praying to God above with the golden fleece beside him; fol. 36r Lauds, 2 medallions: Abraham and the three angels with Sarah in doorway, Visitation or Mercy and Truth as type of the Visitation; fol. 50r Prime, 2 medallions: Sealed fountain in enclosed garden, destruction of Sodom; fol. 61r Terce, 2 medallions: shepherdess and two shepherds (one playing pipe, the other on stilts), three shepherds feasting; fol. 90r Vespers, 2 medallions: Fifth seal with souls of martyrs and Holy Lamb on book, man killing boy and woman killing girl; fol. 106r Compline, 2 medallions: Fall of idols, Jacob protected by Rebecca flees from Esau; fol. 111r Penitential Psalms, 2 medallions: David defeating bear and lion, David slaying enemies.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink initials [4 – 6 ll.] with graded foliate motifs, filled with fleur-des-lys or hybrids on gold grounds, with three-sided bar borders and acanthus, floral and spraywork borders including the medallion scenes described above; gold initials [1 – 3 ll.] on blue and dark pink white-patterned grounds; gold and pink line fillers with geometric gold and white designs.not in cataloguereferenceexhibition-2135adlib-exhibition-213578c014a4-328f-33fc-b9db-e1d0859762e4Gent: Duizend Jaar Kunst en CultuurMS 2441accession numberMS 244169755priref169755project ID101urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169755https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169755fol. 14rDeus in adiutoriumsecundo folioreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreferenceagent-184666adlib-agent-1846664151454a-e1dd-317d-a7d5-ac718fceeb18Phillipps, Thomas, Sir189618961896bought1450CE1450circa1450referenceterm-118913adlib-term-118913da4525bb-b265-33e3-960f-8c1e70f808ea15th Century, Mid#referenceterm-15277adlib-term-15277438819e9-2604-383c-a162-209699b7abc1literalFlandersFlandersregionprobably TournaiTournaireferenceterm-39593adlib-term-39593e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312dgoldreferenceterm-102889adlib-term-102889703baf0d-529b-397e-ae46-a11146643252book of hourstype of textreferenceterm-129113adlib-term-129113e573cc5a-4325-3065-ac68-43ed57fd215duse of Ghentliturgical usehistory noteBenedictine monastery of St Adrian at Grammont (Calendar and Litany); erased seventeenth-century inscription beginning Deus a qua santa and erased signature illegible under UV light (fol. 184v); Claude Robert Jardel at Braine, near Soissons (ownership inscription, fol. 1r); his sale, Paris, 15 Dec. 1799, probably no. 586 (number written in ink on lozenge-shaped label on spine); purchased in Brussels by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792 – 1872), his MS 4083 (number inside upper cover and on recto of flyleaf, and on printed label at tail of spine); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 – 17 June 1896, lot 681; purchased for the Museum, 1896.referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameCambridge IlluminatedCambridge Illuminated163 - 66referencepublication-3501adlib-publication-350125126ce9-a73c-3508-adcc-d41f7fac9da5A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)referencepublication-8426adlib-publication-84266b678268-aa0a-386a-b0c0-6349ae59b405A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlandsreferenceterm-102889adlib-term-102889703baf0d-529b-397e-ae46-a11146643252book of hoursbook of hoursreferenceterm-25908adlib-term-2590873499d13-1ec4-30b6-aed9-641f768c023billuminationBook of Hoursobject
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