1592999840000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-169755 1755194562979 1714475086000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-169755 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169755 ecf5aaeb-143c-31cb-95e5-fdeecadcba0a 9 reference agent-184666 adlib-agent-184666 4151454a-e1dd-317d-a7d5-ac718fceeb18 Phillipps, Thomas, Sir reference agent-187677 adlib-agent-187677 8310a772-eaaf-3b7f-bad2-f022788046d6 Jardel at Braine, Claude Robert reference agent-187676 adlib-agent-187676 709f0e6f-0ff5-3e8c-be7b-4ae613241b86 Monastery of St Adrian at Grammont reference term-110558 adlib-term-110558 ee824bc5-8d70-3060-824d-9ed6f392557b illuminated manuscript reference term-114522 adlib-term-114522 76be19ae-554e-3b73-af2d-112e09263aaf manuscript reference term-118780 adlib-term-118780 c5f3b968-f763-357a-b740-9f216e114859 parchment Support Height mm 115-121 Width mm 77 Text Height mm 200 Width mm 138 Page Manuscripts and Printed Books PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 185 fols., 200 x 138 (115 – 121 x 77) mm, 17 long lines, ruled in pink ink, quire and leaf signatures, catchwords, leaves lost after fols. 49, 60, 71, 80, 89, 98, 105, 110, 136, 184. BINDING: Mid-fifteenth century, brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on five double supports, blind-stamped central panel with stamp of double-headed eagle, orange and green endbands carried over head and tail of spine, traces of two fastening devices, edges gilt and gauffered, pastedowns from 13th and 14th century manuscripts CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 12v Calendar; fols. 13r – 16v Hours of the Cross (begins imperfectly with Nones); fols. 17r – 110v Hours of the Virgin (imperfect); fols. 111r – 123r Penitential Psalms; fols. 123r – 136v Litany with collects; fols. 137r – 184v Office of the Dead (begins imperfectly). DECORATION: 20 medallions within full acanthus and spraywork borders at major text divisions showing Old Testament prefigurations of the New Testament subjects which were originally in the full-page miniatures (all cut out) on the facing versos: fol. 13r Hours of the Cross, None, 2 medallions: Eleazar Maccabaeus killing elephant with two men in tower on its back, King of Moab sacrificing first-born son; fol. 14r Vespers, 2 medallions: Naomi lamenting, David lamenting at Abner’s funeral procession; fol. 15r Compline, 2 medallions: Adam and Eve mourning the dead Abel, Jonah cast into the sea; fol. 17r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, 2 medallions: Ezekiel asleep before the porta clausa, Gideon praying to God above with the golden fleece beside him; fol. 36r Lauds, 2 medallions: Abraham and the three angels with Sarah in doorway, Visitation or Mercy and Truth as type of the Visitation; fol. 50r Prime, 2 medallions: Sealed fountain in enclosed garden, destruction of Sodom; fol. 61r Terce, 2 medallions: shepherdess and two shepherds (one playing pipe, the other on stilts), three shepherds feasting; fol. 90r Vespers, 2 medallions: Fifth seal with souls of martyrs and Holy Lamb on book, man killing boy and woman killing girl; fol. 106r Compline, 2 medallions: Fall of idols, Jacob protected by Rebecca flees from Esau; fol. 111r Penitential Psalms, 2 medallions: David defeating bear and lion, David slaying enemies. ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink initials [4 – 6 ll.] with graded foliate motifs, filled with fleur-des-lys or hybrids on gold grounds, with three-sided bar borders and acanthus, floral and spraywork borders including the medallion scenes described above; gold initials [1 – 3 ll.] on blue and dark pink white-patterned grounds; gold and pink line fillers with geometric gold and white designs. not in catalogue reference exhibition-2135 adlib-exhibition-2135 78c014a4-328f-33fc-b9db-e1d0859762e4 Gent: Duizend Jaar Kunst en Cultuur MS 244 1 accession number MS 244 169755 priref 169755 Cambridge Illuminated project ID 101 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169755 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169755 fol. 14r Deus in adiutorium secundo folio reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-184666 adlib-agent-184666 4151454a-e1dd-317d-a7d5-ac718fceeb18 Phillipps, Thomas, Sir 1896 1896 1896 bought 1450 CE 1450 circa 1450 reference term-118913 adlib-term-118913 da4525bb-b265-33e3-960f-8c1e70f808ea 15th Century, Mid reference term-15277 adlib-term-15277 438819e9-2604-383c-a162-209699b7abc1 probably Tournai Tournai reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold reference term-102889 adlib-term-102889 703baf0d-529b-397e-ae46-a11146643252 book of hours type of text reference term-129113 adlib-term-129113 e573cc5a-4325-3065-ac68-43ed57fd215d use of Ghent liturgical use history note Benedictine monastery of St Adrian at Grammont (Calendar and Litany); erased seventeenth-century inscription beginning Deus a qua santa and erased signature illegible under UV light (fol. 184v); Claude Robert Jardel at Braine, near Soissons (ownership inscription, fol. 1r); his sale, Paris, 15 Dec. 1799, probably no. 586 (number written in ink on lozenge-shaped label on spine); purchased in Brussels by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792 – 1872), his MS 4083 (number inside upper cover and on recto of flyleaf, and on printed label at tail of spine); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 – 17 June 1896, lot 681; purchased for the Museum, 1896. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference number literal name Cambridge Illuminated Cambridge Illuminated 163 - 66 reference publication-3501 adlib-publication-3501 25126ce9-a73c-3508-adcc-d41f7fac9da5 A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) reference publication-8426 adlib-publication-8426 6b678268-aa0a-386a-b0c0-6349ae59b405 A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands

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