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Book of Hours
Binder: Proctor, Robert
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern paper flyleaves + 125 fols. + i parchment flyleaf (fragment from a fourteenth-century Antiphonal with Office for the Common of Virgins) + iii modern paper flyleaves, 170 x 116 (109 x 66) mm, 15 long lines, ruled in dark pink ink, leaves lost between fols. 12 – 13, 30 – 31.
BINDING: sixteenth-century, brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on four supports, blind-tooled centre and corner design, traces of two fastening devices on fore-edge; repaired and rebound by Robert Proctor, Fitzwilliam Museum, in 2000.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12v Calendar (in French); fols. 13r – 15v Hours of the Cross (begin imperfectly)' fols. 16r – 19v Hours of the Holy Spirit; fols. 20r – 66v Hours of the Virgin (imperfect); fols. 67r – 82v Penitential Psalms and Litany
fols. 83r – 114v Office of the Dead (imperfect); fols. 115r – 116v Gospel Sequence of St John; fols. 116v – 117r Prayer Protector in te sperantium deus
fols. 117r – 118v Hymn Veni creator spiritus; fols. 118v – 120v Prayer Mon benoist dieu ie croi ; fols. 121r – 122v Seven Prayers of St Gregory (in French)
fols. 123r – 125r Seven Sorrows of the Virgin; fosl. 125r – 125v Prayer Ave maria ancilla sancte trinitatis (ends imperfectly).
DECORATION: Four large framed miniatures with full strewn-flower borders for major text divisions: fol. 16r Hours of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost; fol. 20r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, Annunciation; fol. 67r Penitential Psalms, David penitent; fol. 83r Office of the Dead, Raising of Lazarus, skull and bones in border.
Six historiated initials with one-sided strewn-flower panel borders for lesser text divisions: fol. 42r Hours of the Virgin, Prime, [D, 5 ll.] Adoration of the Child; fol. 47r Terce, [D, 5 ll.] Annunciation to the Shepherds; fol. 50r Sext, [D, 5 ll.] Presentation in the Temple; fol. 53r None, [D, 5 ll.] Adoration of the Magi; fol. 56r Vespers, [D, 6 ll.] Flight into Egypt; fol. 62r Compline, [C, 4 ll.] Massacre of the Innocents.
ORNAMENTATION: Liquid gold initials [1 – 3 ll.] on dark pink and blue grounds; capitals highlighted in yellow, calligraphic initials in rubrics and descenders in last line of text.
History note: William Kerr, second Marquis of Lothian (d.1722); fragment of a cutting from an English sale catalogue: ‘155 Monk’s MS.’; Tom Bendham, 1 Priory Walk, London; presented by him to the Museum in honour of his father, Henry Bendham, in 2000.
Method of acquisition: Given (2000) by Bendham, Tom
16th Century, Late
Circa
1490
CE
-
Circa
1500
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 109 mm
Width 66 mm
Page
Height 170 mm
Width 116 mm
Accession number: MS 1-2000
Primary reference Number: 170638
Project ID: 1258
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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