Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Book of hours
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Cooper, E. P. F.
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1470]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Gothic scripts
Books of hours
Inscriptions
Morocco bindings
Blind tooled bindings
Catches
Clasps
Bevelled edge boards
devotional calendars
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and Modern)--Belgium
Manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Belgium > Flanders (region) > East Flanders (province) > Ghent
Extent:
210 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 107 x 75 (65 x 42) mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/0k22bc204
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Ghent?]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-2v: originally blank, fol. 1 now with 15th-century liturgical additions.
2. fol. 3-14v: calendar, use of Utrecht.
3. fol. 15-21v: Short Hours of the Passion, begins imperfectly at the end of Matins, with "...giri digneris vivis..." (lacking at least one folio).
4. fol. 22-26v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, begins imperfectly with "...tuis discipulis in die..." (lacking at least one folio).
5. fol. 27: blank.
6. fol. 27v: full-page miniature, Virgin and Child enthroned.
7. fol. 28-34: Mass of the Virgin.
8. fol. 34v-35v: Gospel readings: John.
9. fol. 36-37v: Gospel readings: Luke.
10. fol. 37v-39v: Gospel readings: Matthew.
11. fol. 39v-40v: Gospel readings: Mark.
12. fol. 41: blank.
13. fol. 41v: full-page miniature, the Annunciation.
14. fol. 42-62: Matins (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
15. fol. 62v-72v: Lauds (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
16. fol. 73-80: Prime (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
17. fol. 80v-85: Terce (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
18. fol. 85v-89v: Sext (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
19. fol. 90-94v: Nones (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
20. fol. 94v-102v: Vespers (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
21. fol. 103-107v: Compline (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
22. fol. 108-108v: Salve regina.
23. fol. 109-113v: Obsecro te (masculine use)
24. fol. 113v-116v: O intemerata.
25. fol. 117-119: Stabat mater.
26. fol. 119v: Regina coeli.
27. fol. 119v-120v: Veni creator spiritus.
28. fol. 121-142v: Penitential Psalms and Litany.
29. fol. 121: blank.
30. fol. 121v: full-page miniature, Christ in Judgment.
31. fol. 122-142v: Penitential Psalms and litany.
32. fol. 143-187v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome. Begins imperfectly in Matins, with "...mino. In regione vivorum..."
33. fol. 188-189v: St. Bernard, on the Seven Last Words.
34. fol. 190-192: prayer to Jesus: "O bone ihesu..."
35. fol. 192v-193: Indulgence of King Philip.
36. fol. 193v-206: suffrages to: the Holy Sacrament, Archangel Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Andrew, St. Adrian, St. Nicholas, St. Anthony, St. Sebastian, St. George, St. Martin, St. Katherine, St. Barbara, St. Mary Magdalene, and All Saints.
37. fol. 206v-[210]v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on Gregory T. Clark's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 118).
Consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for full listing of miniatures and initials; consult exhibition description by Gregory T. Clark for further information regarding origin.
Origin: Written perhaps in Ghent, ca. 1470, with miniatures in a semi-grisaille style attributed by Gregory T. Clark to a follower of the Master of the Moral Treatises.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Ex libris inscription of the Jesuits of Louvain dated 1643, fol. 3; number "29" inscribed in a ca, 18th-century hand on fol. 210v; later owned by Commander E.P.F. Cooper, his sale Sotheby's London, 7 Dec. 1953, lot 50. BPL plate inside front cover.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1955.
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (parchment) + 210 + ii (parchment) ; too tightly bound to collate and there are no signatures or catchwords ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner of each recto.
Layout: Single column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light red plummet or blind.
Script: WWritten in a gothic cursiva formata (bastarda) in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One- to four-line grisaille initials throughout with white filigree highlighting, on black with gold filigree highlighting; 32 seven-line miniatures or historiated initials in grisaille with blue, red and olive, and three full-page miniatures in gold and colors.
Binding: 19th-century sheepskin, with early central panels laid into both covers containing text stamped around central floral panel panel reading "Ora pro nobis sancta/ dei genetrix ut/ digni efficiamur promi/ssionibus christi"; later clasps, burns from original clasp nails on first and last five leaves; all edges gilt. Housed in modern half-green calf over pale grey canvas clamshell case, spine gilt in compartments reading "HORAE/ B.V.M./ ILLUMINATED/ MANUSCRIPT/ FLEMISH C. 1475/ MS.Q.MED.137"; lined with cushioned pale yellow velvet.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 62; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 118.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018697
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.137
MS 1561 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999063757114