Horae, Use of Rome, in Latin. c. 1490-1500 Illuminated manuscript on vellum, c. 13,5 x 9 cm, [156 (of ?)] ff. (lacking end of Office of the Dead; blank f. 156 as flyleaf; mod. pencil foliation), incl. 13 full-page miniatures (some with blank verso:...
Estimation :
50000 / 60000
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
29r, 41r, 72r, 78r, 97r, 103v, 114r, 136r), 16 ll. (written space c. 7 x 6 cm), written in brown ink in a gothic bastarda. In good condition (1st f. stained, some marg. soiling and traces of use, a few stains in inner margins).
Text: Calendar in brown and red ink (ff. 1r-12v); ‘Oratio ad sancta veronica’ (ff. 13r-14r); Hours of the cross (ff. 15r-22r); Hours of the Holy Ghost (ff. 23r-28v); Mass of the Blessed Virgin (ff. 30r-36r); Gospel Sequences (ff. 36r-40v); Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome (ff. 42r-103r); Prayers in praise of the Virgin (ff. 104r-109v; masculine declension); Suffragia for some important saints (ff. 110r-113v); Penitential Psalms (ff. 115r-135v); Office of the Dead (ff. 137r-155v; incomplete). Origin: written in the Southern Netherlands, probably Bruges, with a few saints added to the Calendar in a 16th-c. hand (i.a. ‘godliue’, f. 7r, and ‘translacie van godliue’, f. 7v). Binding: vellum covered with garnet silk showing a flowery motif (sl. rubbed, a recasing?), flat spine, kept in a box of crimson morocco with gilt flat spine. Decoration: rubricated in pale red; capitals touched in yellow; 1-line initials in gold on a background of red or blue penwork; 2-line initials in gold on a similar background with marginal extension (3 flowers); half lines filled up with pink or blue bars with white filigree; large initials at the beginning of each part with Ghent-Bruges border decoration, and with an appropriate central image, mostly a flower, but also David’s harp (f. 115r) or a skull (f. 137v); 7 very large historiated initials with border decoration on 3 sides: Pieta (f. 104r), St Michael and the Devil (f. 110r), St John the Baptist with a lamb and writing on his knees (f. 110v), St Andrew (f. 111r), St Mary Magdalene (f. 111v), St Catherine (f. 112v), St Barbara (f. 113r). Illumination: the 13 full-page miniatures in full Ghent-Bruges borders (linking verso and recto, miniature and text). Subjects: Crucifixion (f. 14v); Pentecost (f. 22v); Mass (f. 29v); Annunciation (f. 41v); Visitation (f. 53v); Nativity (f. 66v); Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 72v); Adoration of the Magi (f. 78v); Presentation in the Temple (f. 83v); Massacre of the Innocents (f. 88v); Flight into Egypt (f. 97v); David in prayer on his castle’s terrace, with a landscape (f. 114v); Resurrection of Lazarus (f. 136v). The borders, in the style of the Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximilian and of the Hasting Hours, are filled with flowers, animals, angels, musicians etc. This portable Book of Hours in a small format is typical for the Flemish production of the period.
Text: Calendar in brown and red ink (ff. 1r-12v); ‘Oratio ad sancta veronica’ (ff. 13r-14r); Hours of the cross (ff. 15r-22r); Hours of the Holy Ghost (ff. 23r-28v); Mass of the Blessed Virgin (ff. 30r-36r); Gospel Sequences (ff. 36r-40v); Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome (ff. 42r-103r); Prayers in praise of the Virgin (ff. 104r-109v; masculine declension); Suffragia for some important saints (ff. 110r-113v); Penitential Psalms (ff. 115r-135v); Office of the Dead (ff. 137r-155v; incomplete). Origin: written in the Southern Netherlands, probably Bruges, with a few saints added to the Calendar in a 16th-c. hand (i.a. ‘godliue’, f. 7r, and ‘translacie van godliue’, f. 7v). Binding: vellum covered with garnet silk showing a flowery motif (sl. rubbed, a recasing?), flat spine, kept in a box of crimson morocco with gilt flat spine. Decoration: rubricated in pale red; capitals touched in yellow; 1-line initials in gold on a background of red or blue penwork; 2-line initials in gold on a similar background with marginal extension (3 flowers); half lines filled up with pink or blue bars with white filigree; large initials at the beginning of each part with Ghent-Bruges border decoration, and with an appropriate central image, mostly a flower, but also David’s harp (f. 115r) or a skull (f. 137v); 7 very large historiated initials with border decoration on 3 sides: Pieta (f. 104r), St Michael and the Devil (f. 110r), St John the Baptist with a lamb and writing on his knees (f. 110v), St Andrew (f. 111r), St Mary Magdalene (f. 111v), St Catherine (f. 112v), St Barbara (f. 113r). Illumination: the 13 full-page miniatures in full Ghent-Bruges borders (linking verso and recto, miniature and text). Subjects: Crucifixion (f. 14v); Pentecost (f. 22v); Mass (f. 29v); Annunciation (f. 41v); Visitation (f. 53v); Nativity (f. 66v); Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 72v); Adoration of the Magi (f. 78v); Presentation in the Temple (f. 83v); Massacre of the Innocents (f. 88v); Flight into Egypt (f. 97v); David in prayer on his castle’s terrace, with a landscape (f. 114v); Resurrection of Lazarus (f. 136v). The borders, in the style of the Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximilian and of the Hasting Hours, are filled with flowers, animals, angels, musicians etc. This portable Book of Hours in a small format is typical for the Flemish production of the period.
