Accession number
MS S.12
Object title
Book of hours (MS S.12).
Created
Belgium, perhaps Brussels, ca. 1525-1550.
Binding
Dyed straw in geometric patterns over boards, spine rebacked; upper cover has a cross with star decoration in center panel; lower cover has central panel on which a blue paper rectangle is affixed with nails at corners; glued onto this at center is either a drawing in brown ink or engraving of the standing Christ wearing the Crown of Thorns, loin cloth, flesh dotted with dripping blood from whipping, red blood streaks painted onto the body. According to Deborah Evetts, straw bindings of this type were made for books by Napoleonic prisoners.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
141 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 187 x 99 mm.
Provenance
Owners' inscriptions in 17th century (?) hands: in the Calendar for February 18 the name HERMAN PAGE DU ROI; the name DECLETY inscribed in brown ink on fol. 87; the names J. B. HERMAN and J. C. DELETY PAGE DU ROI inscribed on fol. 140v; E. Clark Stillman Collection; E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. book of hours, use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps Brussels, ca. 1525-1550.
Decoration: Illuminated initials on squared colored grounds.
Decoration: Illuminated initials on squared colored grounds.
Contents
fols. 1r-7r: Calendar -- fols. 7v-8r: Gospel of St. John -- fol. 8v: Blank -- fols. 9r-19v: Passion of St. Matthew -- between fols. 19v-20r: Missing folio, stub in gutter, must have been miniature -- fols. 20r-29r: Passion of St. Mark -- fol. 29v: Blank -- between fols. 29v-30r: Missing folios, 2-3 stubs in gutter, one must have had miniature -- fols. 30r-38v: Passion of St. Luke -- fols. 39r-46r: Passion of St. John -- between fols. 46v-47r: Leaf cut out, stub in gutter, must have been miniature for Hours BV -- fols. 47r-50v: Hours B.V., then misbound -- fols. 51r-60r: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 61r-64r: Obsecro te -- fols. 64r-69v: Prayer to B.V: Missus est Gab -- fols. 70r-75r: Officium de Conceptione -- fols. 75v-77r: Prayer, Conditor celi -- fols. 78r-78v Hours of the Holy Ghost -- fols. 136r-139v: Hours of the Holy Ghost continued -- fols.79r-84r: Penitential Psalms continued -- fols. 85r-130v: Hours B.V. continued -- fols. 131r-135v: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 136r-138v: Hours of the Holy Cross -- fols. 139r-139v - Conditor celi continued -- fols. 140r, 141r: Added prayers in later (17th cent. (?)) hand.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
Century
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