IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 170634 accession number: MS 1055-1975 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i parchment flyleaf + 118 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 303 x 220 (158 x 104) mm, 21 long lines, ruled in pink ink, leaves lost between fols. 11 – 12, 13 – 14, 17 – 18, 27 – 28, 29 – 30, 35 – 36, outer border of fol. 7 cut out. BINDING: nineteenth century, red velvet over pasteboard, edges gilt and painted with green and red foliate motifs. CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 6v Calendar; fols. 7r – 11v Fifteen Oes; fol. 12r – v Fragment from liturgical service, probably Hours of the Trinity; fol. 13r Commemoration of St Barbara (starts and ends imperfectly); fols. 14r – 38r Hours of the Virgin interspersed with Hours of the Cross (starts imperfectly); fol. 38r – v Salve Regina; fols. 39r – 42v Salve virgo virginum and other Marian prayers fols. 42v – 44r O Intemerata; fols. 44r – 46r Obsecro te; fols. 46r – 49r Seven Joys of the Virgin; fols. 49v – 52r Omnibus consideratis, prayers to the Cross and Five Wounds; fols. 52r – 52v Prayers to the Virgin and St John; fols. 53r – 55v Bede’s Prayer on the Seven Last Words, and other Christocentric devotions; fols. 57r – 62v Penitential Psalms; fols. 62v – 66v Gradual Psalms fols. 66v – 71v Litany; fols. 72r – 93r Office of the Dead; fols. 93v – 102v Commendation of the Soul; fols. 103r – 110r Psalms of the Passion; fols. 110r – 118v Psalter of St Jerome, with rubricated indulgence crossed out (starts imperfectly). DECORATION: Six large framed miniatures with three-sided gold, blue and pink bar borders and full acanthus and floral borders including hybrids and grotesques for main text divisions: fol. 46v Seven Joys of the Virgin, Christ displaying wounds, two angles holding up cloth covered in Y A; fol. 49v Omnibus consideratis, Crucifixion, with Virgin and St John; fol. 57r Penitential Psalms, Last Judgement, with Christ flanked by angels, dead rising, and Hellmouth below; fol. 72r Office of the Dead, Funeral service, grave-diggers and mourner-grotesque in border; fol. 93v Commendation of the Soul, Souls borne to God by angels; fol. 103r Psalms of the Passion, Man of Sorrows surrounded by Instruments of the Passion, sorrowing angels in border. Fourteen small framed miniatures inset in text-block with partial gold, blue and pink bar borders, and acanthus, floral and spraywork borders: fol. 27r Hours of the Cross, Prime, Christ before Pilate; fol. 29r Terce, Flagellation; fol. 32v Sext, Crucifixion with Virgin and St John; fol. 35r None, Deposition; fol. 37v Vespers, Entombment; fol. 50r Prayer to the Cross, Cross with label INRI and Prayer to the Head of Christ, Sorrowing head of Christ with Crown of Thorns; fol. 50v Prayers to the Five Wounds, Wounded right hand; fol. 51r Wounded left hand and Cloth with Wound held by hands from heaven; fol. 51v Wounded right foot and Wounded left foot; fol. 52r Prayers to the Virgin and St John, Pieta and St John. ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink white-patterned initials [5 ll.] with foliate or geometric infill on gold grounds for main text divisions; gold initials [2 – 3 ll.] on blue and dark pink white-patterned grounds; alternate gold and blue one-line initials with black or red pen-flourishing; gold and blue geometric line-fillers. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: A. Rousset, Lyons (bookplate with his monogram A/R/LUG inside upper cover); sold in Paris, Hotel Drouot, 17 June 1960, lot 9; purchased by Henry Davis (1897 – 1977); his gift, 1975. 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/170634 PEOPLE ------------------- Davis, Henry Rousset, A. TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: Iluminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1440 - 1450 creation date earliest: 1440 creation date latest: 1450 culture: 15th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Masters of the Gold Scrolls EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Catalogue de l’exposition de manuscrits à peintures title: The Splendours of Flanders CITATIONS -------- Catalogue de l’exposition de manuscrits à peintures Books of Hours produced in the Low Countries for the English market in the fifteenth century A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries Merktekens in de Brugse Miniatuurkunst The Splendours of Flanders The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Patrons and Purchasers: Evidence for the Original Owners of Books of Hours Produced in the Low Countries for the English Market The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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