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Book of Hours
Author: Grote, Geert
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + i modern parchment flyleaf + 140 fols. + i modern parchment flyleaf + ii paper flyleaves, 195 x 137 (103 x 70) mm, 21 long lines, ruled in brown ink
BINDING: Nineteenth century, dark red velvet over wooden boards, two clasps on lower cover, two catchplates on upper cover, edges gilt
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12r Calendar; fols. 12v – 42r Hours of the Virgin; fols. 42v – 60v Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; fols. 61r – 81r Hours of the Holy Spirit
fols. 81v – 100v Hours of the Cross; fols. 101r – 112v Penitential Psalms and Litany; fols. 113r – 140v Office of the Dead.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue initials [3 – 11 ll.] with shaded foliate ornament and floral infill on gold grounds, three- or one-sided gold, blue and pink bar borders, and full or partial acanthus and spraywork borders including birds, grotesques and occasional human figures; gold initials [2 – 4 ll.] on blue and pink white-patterned grounds, with spraywork extensions and occasionally with three-sided borders; alternate red and blue penwork one-line initials; gold, blue and red geometric and foliate linefillers.
History note: Purchased by Dr Geikie of Ayr at an unidentified Sotheby’s sle; Sotheby’s, London, 17 July 1950, lot 18; purchased by Francis Edwards; purchased from him by Thomas Sidney Blakeney (1905 – 1976) in 1954; his gift, October 1955.
Method of acquisition: Given (1955) by Blakeney, Thomas Sidney
15th Century, fourth quarter
Circa
1480
CE
-
Circa
1490
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 103 mm
Width 70 mm
Page
Height 195 mm
Width 137 mm
Accession number: MS 7-1955
Primary reference Number: 170624
Project ID: 113
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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