Accession number
MS M.1033
Object title
Tilney hours.
Display Date
between 1460 and 1499
Created
between 1460 and 1499
Binding
16th-century English roll-tooled calf covers laid into a 19th-century English sheepskin binding with two late 17th- or early 18th-century gold-tooled spine labels.
Credit line
Gift of John S. Tilney and Robert W. Tilney, 1981.
Description
132 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 257 x 173 mm
Provenance
Thomas Tilney; Peter Le Neve; Thomas Martin; "Mr. Worth of Diss"; Sir John Fenn; John Tudor Frere (his sale, London, Sotheby's, Feb. 15, 1896, lot 462); James Hargrave (his sale, London, Sotheby's, Dec. 14, 1907, lot 621); John S. Tilney; Robert W. Tilney.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Sarum (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in England in the last third of the 15th century.
Contains prayers and notices concerning the Tilney family--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 21 illuminated initials, 20 full or partial borders, and numerous filigree intials.
Contains prayers and notices concerning the Tilney family--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 21 illuminated initials, 20 full or partial borders, and numerous filigree intials.
Script
textura
Language
Latin, with some rubrics in English
Resources
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