BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Bruges, 1470s] 102 x 78mm. 166 leaves: 1 6 , 2 8 , 3 8 (of 10, lacking tipped-in i and viii), 4 4 (of 8, lacking iv, vi-viii), 5 6 (of 8, lacking i & viii), 6-7 8 , 8 8 (of 9, lacking tipped in iii), 9 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in vi), 10 8 (of 10, lacking tipped-in ii and vii), 11 8 (of 10, lacking tipped-in ii and vii), 12 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in v), 13 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in iii), 14 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in iii), 15 8 , 16 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in vi), 17-21 8 , 22 6 (of 8, final blanks cancelled), later signatures, 17 lines written in a rounded bookhand in black ink between two verticals and 18 horizontals, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, one-line initials alternately in burnished gold flourished with dark blue and in blue flourished with red, line endings in blue or burnished gold, two-line initials in burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue patterned with white, similar three-line initial leading to hairline tendrils with gold and green disks and pink florets, one similar large initial with a burnished gold bar ending in similar tendrils, FOURTEEN LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS WITH FULL BORDERS of acanthus and flower and fruit sprays in liquid gold, blue, green, pink and red, interspersed with black dots, a pink outer frame and a burnished gold bar around three sides of the text (lacking at least 18 leaves, 14 with miniatures, trimmed to lateral borders, text rubbed on some leaves). Eighteenth-century brown calf gilt with single fillet, spine in four compartments gilt with flower tool (wormholes to spine). Marbled box. PROVENANCE: 1. The style of the illumination shows that the book was made in Bruges. The Calendar includes feasts celebrated in much of the southern Netherlands, notable is Festus martyr in red, 5 August, and Bernadino, 20 May, canonised in 1450. He also appears in the Litany in a section devoted to Franciscan saints, Francis, Anthony, Louis and Eleazar; Clara appears among the virgins. 2. A later owner, perhaps partly motivated by anti-papal feeling, erased the prayers naming Sts Peter and Paul, ff.65, 69, 72v-73, 76v-77, 88-89, and parts of prayers to the Virgin, ff.161v and 162. CONTENT: Ruled blank f.1; Calendar ff.2v-14; Hours of the Cross ff.15-20; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.21-25; Mass of the Virgin ff.26-27; Gospel extracts ff.27v-32; Office of the Virgin, use of Rome, ff.33-98: matins f.33, lauds f.51, prime f.62, terce f.66, sext f.70, none f.74, vespers f.78, compline f.85, variations for different feasts f.91; Penitential Psalms and litany ff.99-117; Office of the Dead, use of Rome ff.118-157; Obsecro te ff.158-161v; O intemerata ff.161v-164; ruled blanks ff.164v-166. The borders are typical of the format popularised by Willem Vrelant in Bruges by the 1470s; the rounded script perhaps indicates a date towards 1480.
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Bruges, 1470s] 102 x 78mm. 166 leaves: 1 6 , 2 8 , 3 8 (of 10, lacking tipped-in i and viii), 4 4 (of 8, lacking iv, vi-viii), 5 6 (of 8, lacking i & viii), 6-7 8 , 8 8 (of 9, lacking tipped in iii), 9 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in vi), 10 8 (of 10, lacking tipped-in ii and vii), 11 8 (of 10, lacking tipped-in ii and vii), 12 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in v), 13 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in iii), 14 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in iii), 15 8 , 16 8 (of 9, lacking tipped-in vi), 17-21 8 , 22 6 (of 8, final blanks cancelled), later signatures, 17 lines written in a rounded bookhand in black ink between two verticals and 18 horizontals, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, one-line initials alternately in burnished gold flourished with dark blue and in blue flourished with red, line endings in blue or burnished gold, two-line initials in burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue patterned with white, similar three-line initial leading to hairline tendrils with gold and green disks and pink florets, one similar large initial with a burnished gold bar ending in similar tendrils, FOURTEEN LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS WITH FULL BORDERS of acanthus and flower and fruit sprays in liquid gold, blue, green, pink and red, interspersed with black dots, a pink outer frame and a burnished gold bar around three sides of the text (lacking at least 18 leaves, 14 with miniatures, trimmed to lateral borders, text rubbed on some leaves). Eighteenth-century brown calf gilt with single fillet, spine in four compartments gilt with flower tool (wormholes to spine). Marbled box. PROVENANCE: 1. The style of the illumination shows that the book was made in Bruges. The Calendar includes feasts celebrated in much of the southern Netherlands, notable is Festus martyr in red, 5 August, and Bernadino, 20 May, canonised in 1450. He also appears in the Litany in a section devoted to Franciscan saints, Francis, Anthony, Louis and Eleazar; Clara appears among the virgins. 2. A later owner, perhaps partly motivated by anti-papal feeling, erased the prayers naming Sts Peter and Paul, ff.65, 69, 72v-73, 76v-77, 88-89, and parts of prayers to the Virgin, ff.161v and 162. CONTENT: Ruled blank f.1; Calendar ff.2v-14; Hours of the Cross ff.15-20; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.21-25; Mass of the Virgin ff.26-27; Gospel extracts ff.27v-32; Office of the Virgin, use of Rome, ff.33-98: matins f.33, lauds f.51, prime f.62, terce f.66, sext f.70, none f.74, vespers f.78, compline f.85, variations for different feasts f.91; Penitential Psalms and litany ff.99-117; Office of the Dead, use of Rome ff.118-157; Obsecro te ff.158-161v; O intemerata ff.161v-164; ruled blanks ff.164v-166. The borders are typical of the format popularised by Willem Vrelant in Bruges by the 1470s; the rounded script perhaps indicates a date towards 1480.
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