IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170632 accession number: MS 2-1969 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 27 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. 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/170632 PEOPLE ------------------- Middleton, John Henry Convent of St Agnes, Maaseik, Limburg TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1475 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1475 culture: 15th Century, third quarter CITATIONS -------- Handschriften uit het Sint-Angnesklooster te Maaseik 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. 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