Current Location: In storage
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Book of Hours
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Masters of the Gold Scrolls
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Description
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii parchment flyleaves + 146 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 121 x 83 (70 x 44) mm, 15 long lines, ruled in red ink.
BINDING: Eighteenth century, red velvet over wooden boards
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12v Calendar; fols. 14r – 17r Hours of the Cross; fol. 19r – 19v Mass of the Virgin (ends imperfectly); fols. 21r – 81v Hours of the Virgin
fols. 83r – 90v Office of the Virgin in Advent; fols. 92r – 110v Penitential Psalms and Litany; fols. 112r – 145v Office of the Dead; fol. 146r – v Apostles’ Creed (addition).
DECORATION: Thirteen full-page framed miniatures with full acanthus and floral borders on plain parchment grounds at major text divisions:
fol. 13v Hours of the Cross, Crucifixion with Virgin supported by St John, two soldiers, and skull under Cross; fol. 18v Mass of the Virgin, Coronation of the Virgin, she hands fruit to Christ Child; fol. 20v Hours of the Virgin, Matins, Annunciation; fol. 40v Lauds, Visitation; fol. 53v Prime, Adoration of the Child; fol. 58v Tierce, Annunciation to the Shepherds; fol. 63v Sext, Adoration of the Magi; fol. 67v None, Presentation in the Temple; fol. 70v Vespers, Massacre of the Innocents; fol. 77v Compline, Flight into Egypt; fol. 82v Office of the Virgin, Coronation of the Virgin; fol. 91v Penitential Psalms, Last Judgement with Virgin and St John interceding; fol. 111v Office of the Dead, Funeral service.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue or red white-patterned initials [5 ll.] with foliage infill on gold gold grounds; gold initials [2 ll.] on blue and red white-patterned grounds; alternate gold and blue one-line initials with blue or red pen-flourishing; blue and red penwork line-fillers with gold balls in Litany; capitals highlighted in yellow.
Notes
History note: Unidentified arms painted slightly later over the border of fol. 14r; F. Perkins, Chipstead Place, Kent; purchased by the Museum in 1891.
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1891)
by
Perkins, F
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