Pocket Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [French Flanders, c. 1460-70] 152 leaves (including the last leaf used as an endleaf, but plus a modern paper pastedown and endleaf at front), complete, collation: i-xix8, single column, 16 lines in a small professional late gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, 1-line initials in blue with red penwork or liquid gold with black penwork, 2-line initials in liquid gold on pink and blue grounds heightened with white penwork, fourteen major breaks in text marked by a large pink initial with white penwork enclosing scrolling sprays of simple blue foliage terminating in squat flowers, all on burnished gold grounds, these leaves with full decorated borders of coloured foliage with acanthus-leaf sprays and bezants, first leaf somewhat rubbed, some spots and stains throughout, becoming loose in binding, but overall in clean and presentable condition, 120mm by 90mm., seventeenth- or eighteenth-century binding of mottled calf over pasteboards, with gilt-tooled flowers in spine compartments, wormed and torn at base, detaching at front, fore-edges painted with red patterns Provenance: (1) Christian Hammer (1818-1905) of Stockholm, jeweller, art collector and bibliophile (who kept his library of 50,000 books in a dilapidated and leaky wooden shed on Skansen (the island in central Stockholm which now houses a zoological park and open-air museum): his printed bookplate with a hammer-wielding angel on an elaborate Renaissance chariot, and the motto “En avant, toujours en avant” and inscription “Bibl. Hammer”; perhaps also his pen collection mark “19231” surmounted by a “G” on an endleaf. His collections were dispersed soon after 1900. (2) Thore Virgin (1886-1957) of Qvarnfors, Sweden; his bookplate dated ‘1911’ in pencil, with an apparent acquisition date: “18.3.1915”. Text: The manuscript comprises: the Office of the Holy Cross (fol. 1r); the Office of the Holy Spirit (fol. 7r); the Hours of the Blessed Virgin “secundam usum romanae ecclesiae” (fol. 11r), with Matins (fol. 17r), Lauds (fol. 34r); Prime (fol. 45r), Terce (fol. 49r), Sext (fol. 53r), Nones (fol. 56r), Vespers (fol. 60r), and Compline (fol. 67r); the Office of the Virgin for the whole of Advent (fol. 72r); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 81r) with a Litany and prayers; and the Office of the Dead (fol. 100r).
Pocket Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [French Flanders, c. 1460-70] 152 leaves (including the last leaf used as an endleaf, but plus a modern paper pastedown and endleaf at front), complete, collation: i-xix8, single column, 16 lines in a small professional late gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, 1-line initials in blue with red penwork or liquid gold with black penwork, 2-line initials in liquid gold on pink and blue grounds heightened with white penwork, fourteen major breaks in text marked by a large pink initial with white penwork enclosing scrolling sprays of simple blue foliage terminating in squat flowers, all on burnished gold grounds, these leaves with full decorated borders of coloured foliage with acanthus-leaf sprays and bezants, first leaf somewhat rubbed, some spots and stains throughout, becoming loose in binding, but overall in clean and presentable condition, 120mm by 90mm., seventeenth- or eighteenth-century binding of mottled calf over pasteboards, with gilt-tooled flowers in spine compartments, wormed and torn at base, detaching at front, fore-edges painted with red patterns Provenance: (1) Christian Hammer (1818-1905) of Stockholm, jeweller, art collector and bibliophile (who kept his library of 50,000 books in a dilapidated and leaky wooden shed on Skansen (the island in central Stockholm which now houses a zoological park and open-air museum): his printed bookplate with a hammer-wielding angel on an elaborate Renaissance chariot, and the motto “En avant, toujours en avant” and inscription “Bibl. Hammer”; perhaps also his pen collection mark “19231” surmounted by a “G” on an endleaf. His collections were dispersed soon after 1900. (2) Thore Virgin (1886-1957) of Qvarnfors, Sweden; his bookplate dated ‘1911’ in pencil, with an apparent acquisition date: “18.3.1915”. Text: The manuscript comprises: the Office of the Holy Cross (fol. 1r); the Office of the Holy Spirit (fol. 7r); the Hours of the Blessed Virgin “secundam usum romanae ecclesiae” (fol. 11r), with Matins (fol. 17r), Lauds (fol. 34r); Prime (fol. 45r), Terce (fol. 49r), Sext (fol. 53r), Nones (fol. 56r), Vespers (fol. 60r), and Compline (fol. 67r); the Office of the Virgin for the whole of Advent (fol. 72r); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 81r) with a Litany and prayers; and the Office of the Dead (fol. 100r).
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