IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169659 accession number: MS 50 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169659 PEOPLE ------------------- Herbert, Charles Amici, Henrici Aleyn de Taplowe, Thomas Tyrnerre TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1475 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1475 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Masters of the Beady Eyes CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Books of Hours produced in the Low Countries for the English market in the fifteenth century A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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