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Book of Hours: MS 50

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Current Location: In storage

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Book of Hours

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Artists: Masters of the Beady Eyes

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iv 20th century paper flyleaves + ii 18th century paper flyleaves + 181 fols. + iv contemporary parchment flyleaves + iv 20th century paper flyleaves, 101 x 72 (53 x 35) mm, 14 long lines, ruled in dark pink ink, leaves lost before fol.1 and between fols. 4 – 5

BINDING: Early 20th century, black-tooled red leather over pasteboards, by Wilson, Cambridge.

CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 5r Fifteen Oes (start imperfectly); fols. 5r – 17v Suffrages
fols. 18r – 81v Hours of the Virgin, with memoriae at Lauds; fols. 82r – 110r Penitential Psalms and Litany; fols. 111r – 149v Office of the Dead; fols. 150r – 172r Commendation of the soul; fols. 173r – 181v Psalms of the Passion.

DECORATION: Fifteen historiated initials in gold on pink and blue white-patterned grounds with partial floral and spraywork borders for Suffrages and Hours of the Virgin: fol. 5r [G, 7 ll.] St John the Baptist; fol. 7r [G, 7 ll.] Martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury; fol. 9r [G, 7 ll.] St George; fol. 10v [S, 7 ll.] St Christopher; fol. 12r [G, 7 ll.] St Mary Magdalene; fol. 13v [G, 7 ll.] St Catherine; fol. 15r [G, 7 ll.] St Barbara; fol. 16v [G, 7 ll.] St Margaret; fol. 29v Hours of the Virgin, Lauds, [D, 7 ll.] Visitation; fol. 51r Prime [D, 7 ll.] Adoration of the Child; fol. 57r Terce [D, 7 ll.] Annunciation to the Shepherds; fol. 60v Sext [D, 7 ll.] Adoration of the Magi; fol. 64r None, [D, 7 ll.] Presentation in the Temple; fol. 67v Vespers, [D, 7 ll.] Massacre of the Innocents; fol. 70v Compline, [C, 7 ll.] Flight into Egypt.

ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink white-patterned initials [5 – 6 ll.] with foliage infill on gold grounds, three-sided bar-borders, and full acanthus, foliage and spraywork borders for some major and lesser text divisions; gold initials [2 ll.] on pink and blue white-patterned grounds; alternate blue and gold one-line initials with red or black pen-flourishing; blue and gold abstract linefillers.

Notes

History note: Anno domini 1501 sexto die Septembris Thomas Tyrnerre de Taplowe optulit beate marie hunc librum in nomine Henrici Aleyn Amici sui (ownership inscription, fol. vii verso); Charles Herbert, 16 Aug. 1837 (ownership inscription, fol. v recto); purchased for the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1891.

Place(s) associated

  • Ghent ⪼ Flanders

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1891) by Herbert, Charles

Dating

15th Century, third quarter#
Circa 1450 CE - Circa 1475 CE

People, subjects and objects depicted

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Ink
Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of parchment
Page Height 101 mm Width 72 mm
Text Height 53 mm Width 35 mm

Techniques used in production

Penwork
Illumination

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: quam magnitudine
  • Type: Secundo folio

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 50
Primary reference Number: 169659
Project ID: 59
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 24 August 2020 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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