These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Hours
Artist: Giovanni, Gherardo di and assistants
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 243 fols. + i contemporary parchment flyleaf, 107 x 75 mm (60 x 38 mm), 12 long lines, ruled in black ink
BINDING: Twentieth century, red leather over wooden boards, rebound at the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Proctor, preserving a sample of the sixteenth-century crimson silk cover and re-using the sixteenth-century gilt corner pieces (two on each cover), clasp with niello inscription AVE MARIA (re-attached to upper cover), and catchplate (re-attached to lower cover), edges gilt and gauffered.
CONTENTS:
fols. 1r-12v Calendar
fols. 14r-111v Hours of the Virgin
fols. 112r-147v Penitential Psalms and Litany
fols. 148r-215v Office of the Dead
fols. 218r-235r Gradual Psalms, with versicles, responses and collects
fols. 236r-243r Short Hours of the Cross
DECORATION: Full-page framed miniature with framed border formed of gold branchwork with pearls and rubies on blue ground: fol. 13v Hours of the Virgin, Annunciation.
Four historiated initials in blue or dark pink with delicate white floral motifs and acanthus extensions on gold grounds (except fol. 148r, initial in light blue with gold diamond pattern on dark red ground with floral ornament in gold ink), accompanied by full or partial floral borders terminating in spraywork with gold balls: fol. 14r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [D, 6 ll.] Virgin and Child, surrounded by a full, framed floral border including a medallion with a prophet in the outer border and, in the lower border, a laurel wreath flanked by two putti and enclosing the arms of the Forteguerri family of Pistoia (party per pale, dexter or, sinister vair of argent and azure); fol. 112r Penitential Psalms, [D, 6 ll.] David playing the psaltery, with three-sided floral border including a psaltery; fol. 148r Office of the Dead, [D, 6 ll.] Half-length skeleton with scroll inscribed PENSA AL FINE, with three-sided floral border; fol. 236r Short Hours of the Cross, [D, 6 ll.] Empty Cross on Golgotha, with two-sided floral border.
ORNAMENTATION: Ornamental initials [4-5 ll.] in blue or dark pink with delicate white floral motifs and acanthus extensions on gold grounds, and partial floral borders terminating in spraywork with gold balls, for the remaining canonical hours of the Virgin (fols. 30r, 47v, 54r, 59v, 64v, 70r, 80r) and for the Gradual Psalms (fol. 218r); alternate blue and red penwork initials [2 ll.] with red or violet pen-flourished infill and extensions; alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials.
History note: Made for a member of the Forteguerri family of Pistoia (arms on fol. 14r); Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831–1912); his bequest, 1912.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, Late
Circa
1490
CE
-
Circa
1500
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS Marlay 4
Primary reference Number: 178329
Project ID: 1337
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
Mirador deep zoom
IIIF Manifest
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Hours" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/178329 Accessed: 2024-04-20 07:00:40
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/178329
|title=Hours
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-20 07:00:40|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-178329
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_MAR_4_20_2813v_2014r_29.jpg"
alt="Hours"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Hours</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: MS 11-1951
Accession Number: MS 1058-1975
Accession Number: MS 147
Accession Number: MS 57
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
