Book of Hours.- Hours of the Virgin [Use of Rome] in Latin, preceded by a Calendar, Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost, Mass of the Virgin and Gospel Sequences, and followed by the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and the Office of the Dead, miniature illuminated manuscript on vellum, 173 leaves (of 175, lacking one leaf after f.84 and final blank), gatherings of 6 or 8 leaves (xv complete in 7; miniatures added to gatherings), 13 lines in brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in reed, capitals touched in yellow, one-line initials alternately blue and gold with decorative penwork, 2-line initials in gold on grounds of red and blue with white tracery, 7 4-line initials with bar borders the full height of the page, 6 full-page miniatures with full floral borders and 6 large initials with full borders, later prayers in Italian on final leaves, some leaves rubbed and a little stained but generally in good condition with wide margins, 19th century red morocco, stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo (81 x 55mm.), [Flanders, second quarter of 15th century]. ⁂ A charming and unusually small Flemish manuscript, the text block being only 42 x 28mm. The original instructions to the artist are written in Flemish beneath the miniatures. The subjects of the miniatures are: The Crucifixion Pentecost A Priest saying Mass before a group of laity The Annunciation The Last Trump with God in judgement and a mouth of hell The Burial of the Dead Provenance: Edward Arnold (early 20th century bookplate); Sotheby's sale, December 8th, 1975
Book of Hours.- Hours of the Virgin [Use of Rome] in Latin, preceded by a Calendar, Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost, Mass of the Virgin and Gospel Sequences, and followed by the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and the Office of the Dead, miniature illuminated manuscript on vellum, 173 leaves (of 175, lacking one leaf after f.84 and final blank), gatherings of 6 or 8 leaves (xv complete in 7; miniatures added to gatherings), 13 lines in brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in reed, capitals touched in yellow, one-line initials alternately blue and gold with decorative penwork, 2-line initials in gold on grounds of red and blue with white tracery, 7 4-line initials with bar borders the full height of the page, 6 full-page miniatures with full floral borders and 6 large initials with full borders, later prayers in Italian on final leaves, some leaves rubbed and a little stained but generally in good condition with wide margins, 19th century red morocco, stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo (81 x 55mm.), [Flanders, second quarter of 15th century]. ⁂ A charming and unusually small Flemish manuscript, the text block being only 42 x 28mm. The original instructions to the artist are written in Flemish beneath the miniatures. The subjects of the miniatures are: The Crucifixion Pentecost A Priest saying Mass before a group of laity The Annunciation The Last Trump with God in judgement and a mouth of hell The Burial of the Dead Provenance: Edward Arnold (early 20th century bookplate); Sotheby's sale, December 8th, 1975
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