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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Tournai, in Latin and Dutch, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Ghent, c.1490] 140 x 93mm. iv (i as pastedown) + 181 leaves: 1 8, 2 9(of 8 + iii, miniature), 3 9(of 8 + vii, miniature), 4 8, 5 9(of 8 + ii, miniature), 6-7 8, 8 9(of 8 + vii, miniature), 9-10 8, 11 1 1(of 10 + iv, miniature), 12-13 8, 14 9(of 8 + vi miniature), 15-20 8, ?21 4, ?22 9(uncertain), text complete, lacking five inserted miniature leaves, 22 lines written in black ink in a semi-cursive gothic bookhand between two verticals and 23 horizontals, ruled in grey, justification: 81 x 55mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, one- and two-line initials alternately in red and blue, eighteen three- or four-line initials in blue with extensive red flourishing, eleven large initials with blue staves and infills of pink patterned with liquid gold on burnished gold grounds, surrounded by ELEVEN FULL SCATTER BORDERS of naturalistic flowers and fruit and stylised acanthus inhabited by monkeys, birds and flies on tawny grounds, SIX FULL-PAGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES WITHIN SIMILAR SCATTER BORDERS (some wear to miniatures and borders, margins worn). Contemporary Flemish, probably Ghent, brown calf over boards, stamped with two panels of curling foliage enclosing animals and birds, to the left framed by the inscription sit nomen domini benedictum/ex hoc nunc et usque/in seculum , to the right by adiutorium nostrum/in nomine/domini q [ ui fecit ca ] elum et terram , above and below a panel of a boar, a wyvern, a ?gryphon and a stag, attachments for two straps, leather tabs (spine renewed, lacking straps, central bosses and some tabs, restored). PROVENANCE: 1. The book probably originated in Ghent: the Calendar includes in red Sts Pharahildis (4 Jan), Amelberga (10 July), Bavo (1 Oct) and Livinus (12 Nov), while the Litany invokes Livinus, Bavo, Amalberga and Pharahildis; a contemporary formal hand has added Bertolf, whose relics were at St Peter's in Ghent, to the calendar in red (5 Feb) and to the Litany. Ghent was in the diocese of Tournai: the Mass and Office of the Virgin and the Office of the Dead are for the use of Tournai. 2. The first owner may have been Claes de Hoeghe, son of Jan Hudevetter, living on the Korte Steendam , presumably the street in Ghent of that name, as described in the formal inscription on what is now the lower pastedown. 3. In a current hand on what is now the lower pastedown: ende nusanders dochter wonende bij ze CONTENT: Tables in Dutch: to calculate days when meat allowed, f.1r, and the Sunday letters and golden numbers around a T-O map of the world, dated 1490 f.1v; Calendar in Dutch ff.2-7, ruled blank f.8; Offices for the days of the week in Latin with Dutch rubrics ff.9-26v: Sunday Hours of the Trinity f.9, Monday Hours of the Dead f.12, Tuesday Hours of the Holy Spirit f.14, Wednesday Hours of All Saints f.16, Thursday Hours of the Sacrament f.18, Friday Hours of the Cross f.20, Saturday Hours of the Virgin f.25; Mass of the Virgin, naer dhuutwysen vanden doornijcxschen ordinaris , as detailed in the Dutch rubric ff.27-35; Office of the Virgin na de ordinaries van doornijke ff.37-65v: matins f.37, lauds f.46v, prime f.52, terce f.55, sext f.56v, none f.58, vespers f.60, compline f.63; Penitential Psalms ff.67-73; Litany ff.73-78v; collects to say after the Litany, including one for our Duke and Duchess ff.79-84; antiphons for the Virgin throughout the year ff.84v-87; Office of the Dead, use of Tournai ff.89-107; prayers, in Latin with Dutch rubrics, including the seven Verses of St Bernard, on the Name of Jesus, ff.108-112v: prayers on receiving the Sacrament, in Dutch ff.112v-116v; prayers in Dutch with indulgences ff.118-122; prayer in Dutch on the Seven Last Words ff.122-125; the Hundred Articles on the Passion, with Prologue, by Henry Suso in Dutch O here ihesu christen wijsheit gods , the prayer to be said after each Article given in Latin and Dutch ff.125-149v; Obsecro te in Dutch ff.150-152; Rosa