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Book of Hours
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 67 fols. + ii paper flyleaves, 182 x 127 (118 x 78) mm, 21 long lines, ruled in pink ink.
BINDING : Nineteenth century, brown velvet with brown leather spine and corners over pasteboards
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 51v Hours of the Virgin, with Memoriae at Lauds, Vespers and Compline; fols. 52r – 54r Memoriae for Common of Saints for Vespers and Matins; fols. 55v – 67v Penitential Psalms and Litany, with hymns and collects for the Holy Spirit, including Veni creator spiritus.
DECORATION: Two full-page prefatory miniatures with full acanthus and foliate borders: fol. 1v Hours of the Virgin, Matins, Annunciation; fol. 55v Penitential Psalms, David penitent before throne, Fool and other attendants behind, dog beneath throne.
Three German engravings mounted on flyleaves:
fol. i verso Aldegrever, Charity, dated 1552 (Bartsch and Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, 122)
fol. ii recto Aldegrever, Patience, dated 1552 (Bartsch and Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, 119)
fol. ii verso Matheus Zatinger, St Catherine (Bartsch 11, Lehrs 8)
ORNAMENTATION: Gold, blue, dark pink or green initials [7 – 12 ll.] with white foliate motifs (and inscription ave maria, fol. 36v) on gold, red and blue grounds, occasionally diapered or quartered, with white decoration, foliate and acanthus motifs and full, one-sided or partial acanthus and spraywork borders, those at main text divisions enclosed within gold frames; gold initials [3 – 4 ll.] on blue and dark pink white-patterned grounds with brown pen-flourished extensions; alternate red and blue penwork initials [1 – 2 ll.] with occasional red or brown pen-flourishing or gold and red decoration.
History note: Made for a nun at the Augustinian convent of St Agnes, Maaseik, Limburg, which had the relics of Sts Harlindis and Relindis (repeated suffrages for Sts Augustine and Agnes, suffrage for Sts Harlindis and Relindis, founders of Maaseik, fols. 48v); John Henry Middleton (1846 – 1896); presented to the Museum by his daughter, Mrs M.M. Reynolds in 1969, as if bequeathed by her father.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1969) by Middleton, John Henry
15th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1450
CE
-
Circa
1475
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 118 mm
Width 78 mm
Page
Height 182 mm
Width 127 mm
Accession number: MS 2-1969
Primary reference Number: 170632
Project ID: 112
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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