Miniature Book of Hours, of Augustinian Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (diocese of Cologne) or perhaps London, England, mid-fifteenth century] 151 leaves (plus 2 parchment flyleaves at each end, those at back loose in volume), wanting a single leaf from Calendar, else complete, collation: i11, ii-viii12, ix10, x-xii12, xiii10 (of 12, a leaf after sixth and another at end cancelled blanks), single column of 16 lines in a small and scrawling hand influenced by secretarial script, rubrics and small initials in red, a few spaces left for initials, small smudges and stains, else overall in fair and solid condition, 68 by 46 mm.; contemporary binding of wooden boards with exposed spine (three of four thongs and both endbands separated from back board), once covered with brown leather with four diamond shaped stamps on front board, but leather now mostly missing, metal clasp (some modern replacement of parts) A tiny and personal manuscript made for the private devotions of an Augustinian friar, with a colophon naming its owner (and probable scribe), and in its contemporary binding Provenance: Written for (and most probably by) Gerardus Beylarus: explicit at end in main hand noting his ownership (“Item hore pertinent gerardo beylari d[o?]ctrina maioris”). The Bénédictins du Boveret record him as owning another manuscript, dated 1443, and now in Krakow University Library, MS. 2229 (Colophons, no. 5211). There Gerardus records that he was a theology master in the diocese of Cologne, but that he wrote that book during a period spent in London in England. The diminutive size of the present manuscript might indicate that it was produced for use while travelling, or written on the road, and it might also have been copied while in London. It is clear from the incipit of this manuscript (noting “secundum usum augustensis”) that Gerardus was an Augustinian, and while in London he must have been based in the convent in the City of London, just north west of where the Bank of England presently sits. Text: The volume comprises, a Calendar; the Hours of the Virgin; Suffrages to the Saints and the Holy Spirit; an office for Easter and other offices; the Seven Penitential Psalms followed by a Litany; the Obsecro te; prayers to St. Bernard; and the O intemerata. A contemporary hand has added further prayers to an endleaf at the back.
Miniature Book of Hours, of Augustinian Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (diocese of Cologne) or perhaps London, England, mid-fifteenth century] 151 leaves (plus 2 parchment flyleaves at each end, those at back loose in volume), wanting a single leaf from Calendar, else complete, collation: i11, ii-viii12, ix10, x-xii12, xiii10 (of 12, a leaf after sixth and another at end cancelled blanks), single column of 16 lines in a small and scrawling hand influenced by secretarial script, rubrics and small initials in red, a few spaces left for initials, small smudges and stains, else overall in fair and solid condition, 68 by 46 mm.; contemporary binding of wooden boards with exposed spine (three of four thongs and both endbands separated from back board), once covered with brown leather with four diamond shaped stamps on front board, but leather now mostly missing, metal clasp (some modern replacement of parts) A tiny and personal manuscript made for the private devotions of an Augustinian friar, with a colophon naming its owner (and probable scribe), and in its contemporary binding Provenance: Written for (and most probably by) Gerardus Beylarus: explicit at end in main hand noting his ownership (“Item hore pertinent gerardo beylari d[o?]ctrina maioris”). The Bénédictins du Boveret record him as owning another manuscript, dated 1443, and now in Krakow University Library, MS. 2229 (Colophons, no. 5211). There Gerardus records that he was a theology master in the diocese of Cologne, but that he wrote that book during a period spent in London in England. The diminutive size of the present manuscript might indicate that it was produced for use while travelling, or written on the road, and it might also have been copied while in London. It is clear from the incipit of this manuscript (noting “secundum usum augustensis”) that Gerardus was an Augustinian, and while in London he must have been based in the convent in the City of London, just north west of where the Bank of England presently sits. Text: The volume comprises, a Calendar; the Hours of the Virgin; Suffrages to the Saints and the Holy Spirit; an office for Easter and other offices; the Seven Penitential Psalms followed by a Litany; the Obsecro te; prayers to St. Bernard; and the O intemerata. A contemporary hand has added further prayers to an endleaf at the back.
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