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Book of Hours
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 225 fols. + ii paper flyleaves, 129 x 91 (69 x 48) mm, 13 long lines, ruled in pink ink.
BINDING: 19th century, brown leather over pasteboards.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12v Calendar in French; fols. 13r – 23v Hours of the Cross; fols. 24r – 35v Hours of the Holy Spirit; fols. 36r – 41v Obsecro te
fols. 41v – 45v O intemerata; fols. 46r – 141v Hours of the Virgin; fols. 142r – 168v Penitential Psalms and Litany; fols. 170r – 223v Office of the Dead.
DECORATION: Five large miniatures painted in grisaille with blue and liquid gold highlights, with arched frames and full acanthus and floral borders in the same palette, at major text divisions: fol. 13r Hours of the Cross, Crucifixion with Virgin and St John; fol. 24r Hours of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost; fol. 46r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, Annunciation; fol. 142r Penitential Psalms, David penitent; fol. 170r Office of the Dead, Funeral service.
ORNAMENTATION: Black white-patterned initials [3 – 4 ll.] with foliage infill on gold grounds beneath full-page miniatures; identical initials [3 – 4 ll.] with partial borders at lesser text divisions; gold initials [1 – 2 ll.] on pink and blue white-patterned grounds; pink and blue white-patterned bar line-fillers with gold balls ornament; capitals highlighted in yellow.
History note: 17th century ownership inscription ‘B. de Saussaye’ (fol. 1r); Richard, seventh viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 – 1816), acquired in 1807; his bequest, 1816.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
15th Century, Mid-Late#
Circa
1470
CE
-
Circa
1480
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Page
Height 129 mm
Width 91 mm
Text
Height 69 mm
Width 48 mm
Accession number: MS 86
Primary reference Number: 169732
Project ID: 69
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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