IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170624 accession number: MS 7-1955 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/170624 PEOPLE ------------------- Blakeney, Thomas Sidney Edwards, Francis Dr Geikie of Ayr TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1490 culture: 15th Century, fourth quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Grote, Geert CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) A 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 Netherlands --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/65/large_MS_7_1955_f39r_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/65/mid_MS_7_1955_f39r_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/65/MS_7_1955_f39r_mas.jpg height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/65/preview_MS_7_1955_f39r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/65/MS_7_1955_f39r_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/71/large_MS_7_1955_f82r_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/71/mid_MS_7_1955_f82r_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/71/MS_7_1955_f82r_mas.jpg height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/71/preview_MS_7_1955_f82r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/71/MS_7_1955_f82r_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/60/large_MS_7_1955_f13r_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/60/mid_MS_7_1955_f13r_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/60/MS_7_1955_f13r_mas.jpg height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/60/preview_MS_7_1955_f13r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/60/MS_7_1955_f13r_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/66/large_MS_7_1955_f43r_mas.jpg height: 1365 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/66/mid_MS_7_1955_f43r_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/66/MS_7_1955_f43r_mas.jpg height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/66/preview_MS_7_1955_f43r_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/716/66/MS_7_1955_f43r_mas.ptif height: 5344 pixels width: 4008 pixels